The people who power our construction industry, and whose labor, skill, and care make our buildings possible, deserve to be celebrated.

The images below are the very beginning of this documentation process – of shifting how architecture, design, and new buildings/spaces are consumed by the public.

This is a big and expansive story and it deserves to be told. The people who make NYC’s built environment possible deserve to be seen and heard.

It’s time for a new narrative. I can’t wait to tell their stories.

Photographs by Gustavo Lopes.