Complex Geometry: New York City Housing Authority, Brooklyn

by Ian Reid

Photographer and documentarian Ian Reid was born and raised in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. In 2018 he set out to photograph 23 public housing developments in Brooklyn from above. His goal was to preserve the architecture and to present the structures without any preconceived notions of what goes on within. The images are framed by the streets they are defined by, often showing how they look with the changing seasons. Gentrification and development have changed the surroundings of the public housing, but the buildings and its residents for the most part stay the same. Complex Geometry respects the true residents of Brooklyn and pays homage to where Reid grew up and still spends a great deal of his time.

108 pages, Hardcover

Published February 15, 2022

About the author

Ian Reid is a writer and education consultant who lives in Perth, Western Australia. Born and raised in New Zealand, he has spent most of his adult years in various parts of Australia, with periods in the USA.
He has taught creative writing and literature in several universities and is the author of a dozen books, including non-fiction (mainly on literary and historical topics) and poetry, but his main focus now is on writing narrative fiction. His fourth novel, A Thousand Tongues, was published in Sept 2019.