This week’s East Village Boy of the Week is José, from Mexico City
Photographed for EVB by Greg Reynolds

New York’s Central Park is a bucolic refuge, a relief from the noise of the city’s traffic and a release from the crush of its citizenry. During the North American summer it is an island of green rising from a heated and steaming sea of concrete, glass and steel.  I want to show the beauty and the sexual tension that rises like steam during the dog days by accompanying José on an afternoon stroll in the park. - Greg Reynolds

This week’s East Village Boy of the Week is Juan, from Bogotá, Colombia
Photographed for EVB by Greg Reynolds

I took Juan out to Floyd Bennett Field, an abandoned airport in Brooklyn where grasses sprang through the cracks in the old tarmac and nearby hangars rusted and crumbled. The history of what used to be and/or what could have been intrigues me, and the combination of an unfamiliar setting coupled with a young man I didn’t really know allowed me to take what was immediate - the subject, the light, the location - and create a fiction drawn from reality, in the way we do whenever we meet someone to whom were attracted but of whom we have little knowledge. The act of photography is an intimate gesture and it is important to me that I like my subject rather than merely attracted to their physical attributes. Juan had a quality of openness and kindness that makes you fall in love. - Greg Reynolds

This week’s East Village Boy of the Week is David, from Brooklyn
Photographed for EVB by Greg Reynolds

These photographs of David Levy were taken in his home and on his block in BedStuy, Brooklyn. I am primarily a portrait photographer with a cinematic sensibility, influenced by such films as Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante and Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête. I approach each shoot as the writer and director: creating the narrative, composing the frame, shaping the light, choosing the background and engaging the subject so that I might bring emotional life to the image. - Greg Reynolds

This week’s East Village Boy of the Week is Drew, from Connecticut
Shot for EVB by Greg Reynolds