Thames & Hudson is pleased to announce the publication of New York, a new photography book by Harry Gruyaert, releasing in 2026.

For over fifty years, Gruyaert has walked the streets of New York with his unmistakable eye, building a visual archive of rare intensity. This book brings together the fruits of that long traversal: a city that never ceases to astonish, caught in its sharpest contrasts — skyscraper silhouettes against the sky, neon signs lighting up diner windows, teeming multicultural neighbourhoods, street scenes that last no longer than the click of a shutter.

Conceived as a large-format visual album, the book presents each photograph across a double-page spread, building a narrative rhythm that evokes the pacing of a cinematic storyboard. The sequence of images tells no single story, but suggests an infinite number: New York as a global stage, a permanent theatre of drama, diversity and colour.

Alongside the photographs are original texts by French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch: short fictional vignettes that speak to the images without illustrating them, moving along the blurred boundary between reality and invention, document and narrative.

About the Authors

Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is a Belgian photographer widely regarded as one of the pioneers of colour photography in Europe. Originally drawn to cinema, by the late 1970s he had devoted himself entirely to colour photography, inspired by Pop Art and a formative trip to Morocco. In the early 1970s, during a stay in London, he produced a series of photographs of colour television screens — known as TV Shots — now held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. A member of Magnum Photos since 1982, he has photographed extensively in the United States, Morocco, Europe and India, publishing numerous volumes including Morocco, Rivages, East/West and India. He lives and works in Paris.