Volume 003 (Empire State)

Volume 003 (Empire State) was Sugarlift's third collection and its first devoted to photography. It brought together twelve young New York street photographers who shot the city from rooftops, bridges, sidewalks and abandoned spaces and shared their pictures instantly online, a new kind of street art that traded the spray can for the camera. The photographers had been featured in New York Magazine, Street Dreams Magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Empty Met" series, but this was their first group show. "We knew we had to put this together right now, in 2015, because it will never be the same again," said Sugarlift co-founder Wright Harvey.

The collection launched on Friday, March 6, 2015, across the street at Livestream Public, 195 Morgan Avenue. The night opened with a panel on street photography in the internet era, with Dave Krugman, Humza Deas, Jose N. Silva and Steve Irby in conversation with Wright Harvey, streamed live online. A sold-out party followed, with prints hung along the building's painted walls, music, drinks from Fitzcarraldo, photo backdrops and GIFs from Phhhoto and Onomonomedia, and an after-party at neighboring Arrogant Swine.

The photographs were offered in limited editions at the Bushwick gallery and on sugarlift.com, and the collection stayed on view through April 30.