Since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Rita Nannini has photographed each terminal station of the New York City Transit subway system and their surrounding environments. A selection of images from the series taken at stations on the 4 and 5 train lines is displayed in "First Stop, Last Stop" at Bowling Green    station. Extending from the center panel, the images take the viewer on a symbolic journey from Brooklyn College in Flatbush to Pelham Bay in the Bronx, showing the MTA’s ability to connect distinct neighborhoods across time and space. 

"I was not quite sure what I would discover as I traveled all 665 miles of subway tracks,” Nannini says, “Nearly eight thousand photographs and ten years later, I am still amazed at where the subway can take me."

The exhibition was generously sponsored by Color Center and DotWorks with installation support by OUTFRONT Media.

Rita Nannini is a conceptual documentary photographer based in Brooklyn. Her work explores different ways of viewing the quotidian: motherhood in the first person, the micro landscape of the suburban back yard, and the last stops on the subway as the first stops. She has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally and has received grants for photography from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the City Artists Corp Grant. Her first monograph, First Stop Last Stop, was published in April 2023.