For over 40 years Steven Siegel has been photographing and filming New York City’s streets, neighborhoods and people. His photography has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Daily Mail, Business Insider, Gothamist, New York Magazine and Fotografia Magazine. As a consequence of this media coverage, his photo postings on Flickr have received over 30 million visits.

The New York Times has called Siegel’s 1980s photo work “a vividly disorienting version of another time and place.” The journal Business Insider noted, “Normally, a picture is worth a thousand words. But some photos speak volumes about their subjects. The work of Steven Siegel recently caught our eye and we are happy to bring you 24 beautiful photographs taken of New York in the 1980s.” New York Public Radio's publication, Gothamist, offered this praise of Siegel’s work: “We've spent the past few weeks looking back through Steven Siegel's photo archive, which beautifully retells the city's story over the past three decades… from utter destruction to Disneyfication.”

Siegel’s film, "Dream City” – a short documentary of New York in the 1980s with voice-overs of New York young people – won awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival and the Houston Film Festival. On February 17, 2022, it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Siegel’s short documentary film entitled “Ellis Island” (made with Phil Buehler) was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2021, Siegel completed an experimental film, entitled "New York Then and Now." The film was exhibited in the Short Film Corner of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and in film festivals in Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich and San Francisco.

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