This picture originally appeared in the 2014 VICE photo issue.
PUD, 2014 Dashwood books recently published volume one of what will become a trilogy of books called PUD by Jason Nocito. The first installment includes mostly pictures taken looking down as Nocito wanders the streets of New York with an 8 x 10 inch view camera, but the series is evolving and expanding to include a broad range of subject matter over time. For the 2014 VICE photography issue, Nocito made us a brand new PUD.We interviewed some of the photographers from this issue about the idea of truth in photography. Below is a short excerpt. Watch a video of the full interview by subscribing to VICE's iPAD edition.VICE: In the photo issue, there’s one photo from a series called PUD.Jason Nocito: PUD is kind of my way of dealing with living in New York and making pictures here.You would call it street photography?Street photography!There’s pictures of the street.A lot of them are right?Is it documentary photography?Jason Nocito: No definitely not. !Do you think the pictures are, they’re not documentary of anything?Uhh…Are you lying?Lying about the pictures?No, are you lying with the pictures?I don’t think about the truth in the pictures!It doesn’t enter into it at all.Less and less.Follow Jason Nocito's blog, Loads Daily, and order the book from Dashwood.Check out more pictures from the 2014 VICE photo issue here
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