The Day After

On the morning after the blizzard, Ludwig Favre walked out into a New York that no longer recognized itself.

The streets were empty. The noise was gone. What remained was color raw, accidental, startling. A yellow cab half-buried on Sixth Avenue. The deep red of a Brooklyn brownstone against twenty inches of white. Steam rising from the grates of a city still breathing beneath the snow.

The Day After is a series of color photographs made in New York in March 2026, in the hours following one of the most powerful blizzards in the city’s recent memory. It is not a document of disaster. It is a portrait of stillness the rare, fleeting moment when one of the loudest cities on earth goes quiet.

Photographs by Ludwig Favre, 2026.