The meatpacking district was once a thriving meat market and a world unto itself— men in pristine white coats swinging cuts of beef onto delivery trucks, forklifts zigzagging through the streets as the sun rose, semis from faraway livestock states idling in long lines in the middle of the night. For more than a century, the Gansevoort Market pulsed with the rhythms of meat cutters, packers, and purveyors. In July, only six meatpacking companies remained. Now there are none.

Purveyor: the last meatpackers of Washington street is a love letter to the Gansevoort Market meat co-op in its final weeks. Photographed on 35mm film, the project is both historical record and personal elegy: the photographer lived in the market from 1984 to 2021 and witnessed the disappearance of warehouses, wholesalers, and the lifeways that sustained them.

At its heart, the work celebrates the butchers and packers who kept the New York City fed: among them, Joe Nemecek, Adolf Kusy, Steve and Hazel Brooks, Sam Farelle, Chuck Zucker, Richard De Natale, Robert Rinehart, Alex Pagan, and John and Tom Jobbagy, who closed their family’s century-old business this summer.