At AIPAD in 2023, Bill Hunt and John Bennette gave a talk on the joy of becoming a collector of photography. On one image of a flower, Mr. Bennette quoted the artist of the image as saying “to photograph a flower is to photograph death,” because once it has grown into the flower, it’s finitely in its last moments.

Shortly thereafter, I read Tim Carpenter’s “To Photograph is To Learn How to Die,” with musings on how photographs confront mortality. Naturally, I’ve since looked at flowers with a transience sense of temporality. This is a working series featuring photographs of street flowers around New York City, often from the street, with meditations on our fragile corporality, and how the photographer lives forever.