Dear Hodinkee Readers, please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Mack. I manage visuals only at Hodinkee, u spend hours upon hours upon hours of my time looking at photographs, reading about them, dissecting all of them, and collecting them. So when a reader named RightGuide dropped a comment in Nick Marino's 2022 Year In Review introduction post asking for a roundup next year of our favorite photos, the request landed on my desk.
I rallied James Stacey, Mark Kauzlarich, Clothes Wade, as well as other folks on the production team to begin the hunt of some of our favorite photos we published across the last 12 months between the site, magazine, and social.
While we're the platform dedicated to all things horology, a good amount of our favorites zoom out to show the broader context. You'll also find some stellar macro shots, because these are small objects, after all. And there's a level of technical proficiency you can't dismiss when trying to bend light as well as focus any lens on a detail the size of quinoa. Overall, the photo galleries that follow speak to the opportunities that an interest in watches has afforded our own photographers.
We scaled mountains, drove cars, swam within oceans, and also putzed around Manhattan in the name associated with watch storytelling. Compiling this roundup was an exercise inside reading a photograph, not just taking a look at one. Whether we were spotting watches along the auction circuit or enjoying a bit of snow polo throughout St. Moritz, we found no shortage of parents eager to show off what was on their wrist. Here are some wrist photos from 2022 that the group couldn’t stop thinking about. It's very possible you've seen some of Sinna Nasseri's work before he appeared on Hodinkee. It wasn't until his images regarding actor Annie Hamilton within the New York Times caught Nick's eye as well as forwarded me the article along with "have you seen these photos?! " Yes, Nick, I have seen them - and if this is you telling me we should hire Sinna, then this is the moment I've been waiting for.
While in Austin this particular April, Nasseri spotted some watches for us at SXSW. A few months later, I sent him they have got asking if he could spend a few days with Midtown Manhattan looking for watches. What came back was more than amazing street photography; it was a visual representation of very specific time and place which Nora so eloquently articulated.
Nasseri's work encapsulates some sort of fearlessness that will comes along with being confident in your craft. The images are loose, and at times topsy-turvy, but often there is something to discover. It's hard to understand the dynamic that shows up between road photographer along with subject until you're assigned with taking pictures of people who have places to be. As much as these images are about being in the right place, focusing the camera, knowing when to click the shutter, and letting life occur, it's also regarding knowing how the actual streets move and breathe and relying your instinct. What's even more impressive is that Nasseri's managed to convince total strangers to stop and talk about their watch. These are New Yorkers we're talking about. All of us don't have time for chit chat