New York By Numbers was created by Eijkelboom over a three week period in May of 2010. The series of images represent a kind of artistic anthropological study, a meticulous effort to find and photograph one hundred people wearing numbers on their clothing, 1 through 100.
Working within the confines of the task (what soon became a game), Eijkelboom has generated a collection of images that are both playful and revealing. His photographs, taken together, are as much driven by the whimsical “need” to capture elusive numbers as they are an opportunity to snapshot a hundred moments activated by an encounter with the right hat, backpack or sports jersey. Each image is, in a sense, the image he’s been looking for.
printed by Calff&Meischke
Hans Eijkelboom / New York By Numbers