New York City-based Instagram account @subwayhands captures New Yorkers through their grips, grasps, and clasps on the train.
New York City-based artist Hannah La Follette Ryan began photographing the hands of commuters when she moved to the city in 2014, and her unconventional portraiture quickly amassed a cult following on Instagram @subwayhands.
Gripping, clasping, holding, playing, fondling, or fumbling, the hands of New Yorkers reveal things—tenderness, impatience, anxiety, or intrigue—that their poker faces conceal.
Construction, 6 train.
Thursday, November 15, J train.
Anxious texting, F train.
Downtown, E train.
Fleet Week, C train.
Summer, 4 train.
9 a.m., L train.
Like Mike, C train
No context, 4 train.
Handsome man, L train.
June 2018, 2 train.
Mother and son, 1 train.
