For this second exhibition at the gallery, box galerie presents exclusively Michael Ackerman’s (IS, 1967) New York — recent and earlier images taken from the book- object Homesick New York, published by Blow Up Press. No tourist clichés, no glamour, but a gaze both tender and uncompromising, turned toward the margins and those who inhabit them — the anonymous, the ones left behind by norms and their constraints. A profoundly human vision of a world that can at times seem dehumanized. Love at every moment. Love for New York, love for the wanderers, the outsiders, the forgotten. Michael Ackerman’s New York appears at once hallucinatory and hallucinant. “I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long” Tom Waits, San Diego Serenade