With just days left, the Kickstarter has blown past its goal and the book is officially headed to print. Press reactions have ranged from dream logic to downtown lust, with features in PAPER, Vice, LUI, and The Independent.

PAPER magazine just ran a full feature on FUCKING NEW YORK, and they nailed it — from public intimacy to reverse voyeurism, from Stoya to Candice Fortin’s ass in Trump’s face.

Flavorwire just featured FUCKING NEW YORK, calling it “abstract, playful, strange, beautiful, ecstatic, and occasionally downright possessed.”

In this video interview with Honeysuckle magazine, I talk through the origin and evolution of FUCKING NEW YORK, including quotes from the series’ participants, such as Jane Cogger’s unforgettable manifesto:

“I will commit acts that delight the delightful and disgust the disgusting.”

Published yesterday, Photo District News featured FUCKING NEW YORK with a write-up that caught the tone exactly right: surreal, sensual, a little unhinged. Getting this kind of recognition — from a publication I’ve long respected — means a lot, especially for a project this provocative.

“He makes pressing your breasts at a window look eloquent, enchanting. Hmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm.”

The New York Times just profiled me — a full feature in yesterday’s paper. I’d been shooting the city’s after-dark underbelly for years, and it feels like both a crown and maybe, just maybe, the closing chapter of my nightlife photography run.