Joni Sternbach

Black and white image of subway carriage interior with sleeping man seated on bench

Culture 11.04.2025

The mundane bliss of New York’s subways in the ’70s

NYC Passengers 1976-1981 — During a very different decade in NYC, which bounced between rich creativity and sketchiness, photographer Joni Sternbach captured the idiosyncratic isolation found on its rail networks.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Photography 14.09.2016

Joni Sternbach’s primordial portraits capture surfing’s lost tribe

Nazareth Savage — To celebrate 10 years of Huck, we're digging through the archives to unearth stories that feel as relevant as ever. Photographer Joni Sterbach’s Taylor Wessing portrait prize-nominated Surfland project captures modern-day Californian surfers with a 19th century photographic process.

Written by: Tetsuhiko Endo

Photography 01.04.2016

The photographer using old-world processes to capture new-world tribes

Timeless portraits of the past — Brooklyn-based Joni Sternbach employs Nineteenth Century wet plate collodion photography to document Long Island’s Shinnecock Indian Nation.

Written by: Joni Sternbach

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The mundane bliss of New York’s subways in the ’70s

Joni Sternbach’s primordial portraits capture surfing’s lost tribe

The photographer using old-world processes to capture new-world tribes

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