PDA

PDA is Todd Fisher's document of couples caught in the open, unguarded gestures of affection staged not for the camera but for each other.

Shot in New York's bars, clubs and on its sidewalks, the photographs work close and low-lit, favoring the grain and color shifts of available light over staged setups. The sequence moves through embraces, kisses and half-hidden moments, building a loose portrait of a city's nightlife through its physical intimacies rather than its faces or venues. The book was self-published through Fisher's own imprint, 0-100 Editions, in a run of 100 copies, in keeping with the small, hand-produced photobooks that defined much of the early 2010s New York independent scene.

Fisher is a New York-based photographer whose work has appeared in Dazed, Juxtapoz and IMA, and who exhibited at Signal Gallery and the New York Photo Festival in the years around PDA's release. It sits alongside his other small-press books, including Someone Cuts My Hair While I Sleep and Winter, in a body of work built from close, diaristic observation of the people around him.