William Meyers picked up professional photography at 60; now in his 80s, he has spent 25 years photographing not New York’s officials but the rooms in which its democracy actually happens. Published by Apollo Publishers, Civics turns its lens on the people who lose elections, the unseen bureaucrats, and the ordinary citizens whose participation the process depends on. It is a portrait of civic machinery at retail scale — the tiny moving parts of a city in perpetual political turbulence that changes only across decades.
