All posts tagged: Photos of 2025 on BSA

We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Street art welcomes all manner of materials and methods, typically deployed without permission and without apology. This hand-formed wire piece reads as a farragoed ruckus of illustration—a continuous line bent into scenes, characters, and visual kiniptions—carrying the brashness and tenacity of illegal under-bridge graffiti while remaining unbound by aerosol means and ‘style’ rules.

Because of its material logic and the artist’s methods, this work by Reed Bmore operates in real-time, framing and reframing its surroundings. Light shifts, traffic moves, and bodies work their way through the streets below. The installation redraws itself again and again, becoming something different from one moment to the next—an illustration in motion that insists the street itself is part of the composition.

We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Somewhere along the King’s Road, punk hardened into a classic ‘look’ – or dictionary of ‘looks’. Stripped of its insurgent force by decades of commercial smoothing, anarchy in the UK became as defiant as a Disney cartoon. Yet on a brisk late-summer evening this year, a red-mohawked youth stomped to his own march toward modernity on a Brooklyn street. Provocative or a unique stab at self-expression, this lad appeared to have a presence and resolve. Alternatively, he could have been late to the film set as an extra in a 1970s drama for Netflix.

We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

First thing on a Friday morning in the city, you might be hustling to the subway, walking a kid to school, or juggling coffee and a cranky toddler. Or, depending on the calendar, you might be lighting a small fire on the sidewalk.

On the morning before Passover, Hasidic Jews in a few Brooklyn neighborhoods complete a religious ritual called biur chametz, the final removal of leavened food, traditionally by burning it before a specific hour. Fire here isn’t ceremonial or dramatic—it’s practical, deliberate, and brief – but there is always an audience. In a place like Brooklyn, that can mean flames and smoke billowing on the concrete, neighbors pausing, kids watching from a distance, a couple of cops standing by, and a whiff of smoke cutting across the usual mix of languages, routines, and lives—an ancient practice carried out calmly in the middle of a very modern city.