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Jack Toolin
@jacktoolin.bsky.social
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Artist working in a range of media, with a conceptually driven approach. Adjunct Associate Professor at Pace University and New York University.
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Urban Suburbia, Brooklyn, 2025.
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#urbanphotography #brooklynphotographer #contemporaryphotography #documentaryphotography #independentphotography #subjectivelyobjective #lensculture #urbansuburbia #homes #gardens #homedecorations
This is a color photograph of a house in Brooklyn, New York. The photograph, and house, is dominated by the garden in the front yard, which is highlighted by tall black eyed susans. A cyclone fence is at the perimeter of the yard, and in the foreground of the image.
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Urban Suburbia, Brooklyn, 2025.
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#urbanphotography #brooklynphotographer #contemporaryphotography #documentaryphotography #independentphotography #subjectivelyobjective #lensculture
This is a color photograph of brick duplex apartment buildings in Brooklyn, New York. The focal point is a painted mural of the Brooklyn Bridge. It is part of a series I call Urban Suburbia, which is centered around documenting the ways that urban dwellers soften their environment with flora and ornamentation.
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Mondini, Brooklyn, 2025.
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#urbanportraits #brooklynphotographer #citylife #momandpopstores #localbusiness
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Street Corner Action, Downtown Brooklyn, 2025.
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#urbanphotography #streetphotography #brooklynphotographer #spontaneousphotography #contemporaryphotography
This is a color digital photograph of people on a downtown Brooklyn sidewalk, taken in the late afternoon. It features warm light and long shadows.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Flatbush Panorama, Brooklyn, 2025.
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#urbanphotography #brooklynphotographer #brooklyn #subjectivelyobjective #lensculture #contemporaryphotography #documentaryphotography #allcitiesarebeautiful
This is a color photograph of downtown Brooklyn taken with the panoramic technique. It features Flatbush Avenue and the skyrise rise buildings in the city.
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Delivery Biker, NYC, 2025.
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#urbanportraits #urbanphotography #newyorkcity #newyorkers
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Financial District Details, NYC, 2024.
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#urbanphotography #contemporaryphotography #fidi #newyorkcityphotographer #documentaryphotography
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Financial District Details, NYC, 2024.
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#urbanphotography #newyorkcityphotographer #fidi #cities #contemporaryphotography
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Financial District Details, NYC, 2024.
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#urbanphotohgraphy #newyorkcityphotographer #fidi #cities #contemporaryphotography
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Financial District Details, Water Street, NYC, 2024.
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#urbanphotography #newyorkcityphotographer #fidi
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Tip Jar No. 45, Brooklyn.
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#tips #casheconomy #serviceindustry #serviceeconomy #microeconomics #psychoeconomics #economicart #artabouteconomics #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #conceptualart #neoconceptualism
October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Tip Jar No. 85, Brooklyn, 2023.
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#documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #empiricaleconomics #microeconomics #psychoeconomics #fringeeconomy #casheconomy #serviceindustry #lensculture #phroom #broadmag #noicemag
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Tip Jar No. 90, Manhattan, 2025.
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#documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #digitalphotography #tipjars #fringeeconomy #casheconomy #economicphotogaphy #economicart #conceptualart #phroom #noicemag #broadmag
This is a color photograph of a tip jar in a Manhattan cafe. It is surrounded by the typical objects one finds on a cafe counter: cups, cash register, snacks. This is Tip Jar No. 90 in this long-running photography project.
October 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Pedestrian Photographs, San Francisco, CA, 1985.
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#newtopographics
#urbanphotography
#analogphotography
#blackandwhitephotography
#mediumformatphotography
#twinlensreflex
#pedestrianphotography
This is a black and white photograph made in San Francisco in 1955. It falls within the New Topographic genre, it depicts a cement plant located in on the eastern edge of the city, now dominated by condominiums.
September 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Convenience Store, Brooklyn, 2020.
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#newtopographics
#urbanphotography
#urbanlandscapephotography
#blackandwhitephotography
#buildings
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Flag, Brooklyn, 2020.
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#documentaryphotography
#brooklynphotographer
#flags #americanflag
#fadedflag
September 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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If the GOP want to continue down their current path (Deport Omar! Deport Mamdani!), then Dems need to start calling for the denaturalization & deportation of Melania, fight fire with fire - plus there are far more unanswered questions about her immigration to the US than either Mamdani or Omar.
Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa
Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that she worked in the seven weeks before her attorney says she had legal permission to work in the country, according to...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Flag, Brooklyn, 2024.
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#urbanphotography
#newtopographics
#contemporaryphotography
#landscapephotography
#brooklynphotography
#documentaryphotography
#flags
This is a photograph of a construction site in Brooklyn, New York. The main features are the orange traffic barriers and the dispirited American flag, hanging in a cloudy gray sky. It is part of a photo portfolio featuring flags.
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Verrazzano Bridge Time Lapse, Brooklyn, 2020.
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#contemporaryphotography
#digitalphotography
#urbanphotography
#photography
#timelapsephotography
#urbanphotography
#newyorkcity
#brooklyn
#verrazzanobridge
#brdiges
September 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Taking a break.
Guitarist, Verrazzanno Bridge, Brooklyn, 2026.
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#urbanphotography #bridges #brooklynphotographer #breathe #contemporaryphotography
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Washington, DC, 2025 – © Brian Rose ⠀
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September 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Urban Suburbia, Brooklyn, 2025.
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#urbansuburbia #urbanphotography #brooklynphotographer
September 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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It's time to promote my project Profit and Loss, which is featured in the current Photo Books Now newsletter. You can buy this newsletter for a VERY affordable price, and doing so will both allow you to learn about the project and give me a morale boost. 😀

www.wurstercreative.com/pbn-newsletter
August 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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3rd Ave. Corridor, Brooklyn, 2025.
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#newtopographics #urbanism #urbanphotography #brooklynphotographer #documentingspace #documentaryphotography #photography #jacktoolin
August 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Profit and Loss, Portfolio, AP/1, 2025.
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See the project description and more images from this project at jacktoolin.net/profitAndLoss
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#visualeconomics #artabouteconomics #newstreetphotography #newconstructivism #enhancedpost #psychoeconomics #conceptualart #digitalphotography
July 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM