Irina Rozovsky, In Plain Air, Irina Rozovsky

In Plain Air is a lyrical portrait of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, which we know through Rozovsky’s studies of its visitors, each seeking an escape from the city’s din. The seed of the idea for the piece was born ten years ago, when the author took a speedboat trip around the park’s southern lake. Floating along the tree-lined shore, she saw what at first seemed like a mirage: families, lovers, friends, a multitude of cultures and ethnicities sharing the same land at the same time. Rozovsky’s stunning color photographs capture the interplay between the city and nature, creating a vision of the park as a democratic and nurturing public space where the landscape and seasons provide a backdrop to a complex social reality.