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Staten Island looks more like suburban New Jersey than it does any of New York's other boroughs. When photographer Christine Osinski moved there from Manhattan in 1982 she explored her new home by taking random walks with her camera. The sympathetic pictures she took of the working-class tract developments, the people who lived in them, and their automobiles are shown in her <i>Summer Days Staten Island</i>...She has a sharp eye for details--Angela Southern Wall Street Journal

Osinski's subjects radiate a nostalgic realism, a sense of unposed documentation.--Jack Crager American Photo Magazine Today, the world of social media has us morphing certain images of New York City to our liking, often covering up reality with filters... What separates Osinski's book from this is not just the time period of the content, but her goal. It is a fragmented journey, an exploration of a new neighborhood she called home that developed into a project.--Vera Penavic Untapped Cities There's a lightness in [Osinski's] Staten Island work... the kind of humor and understanding you find in the work of the great street photographer Helen Levitt.--Rebecca Bengal vogue.com Though the work is 35 years old, created in the 1980's, it still feels fresh and interesting. Her black and white 4 x 5 capture of an often overlooked New York Borough shares intimate portraits focusing on a working class neighborhood that seemed very far away from the chaos of Manhattan.--Aline Smithson LENSCRATCH The photographs [preserve] calm, quiet summer days.--Jessica Leigh Hester The Atlantic's CityLab There is a tight formalism within the pages depicting an America that has vanished.--Brad Feuerhelm American Suburb X The people pictured here were strangers to the photographer, met only in passing. Still, in the pages of this book, they emerge as friends and neighbors, unnamed and unforgettable.--Ellyn Kail Feature Shoot Seen now, the photographs show the island's game face, the one it turned to the outside world. Her subjects, whether children or adults, were home in their island redoubt, braced for whatever might come their way.--John Leland The New York Times Staten Island looks more like suburban New Jersey than it does any of New York's other boroughs. When photographer Christine Osinski moved there from Manhattan in 1982 she explored her new home by taking random walks with her camera. The sympathetic pictures she took of the working-class tract developments, the people who lived in them, and their automobiles are shown in her Summer Days Staten Island...She has a sharp eye for details--Angela Southern Wall Street Journal

Seen now, the photographs show the island's game face, the one it turned to the outside world. Her subjects, whether children or adults, were home in their island redoubt, braced for whatever might come their way.--John Leland The New York Times

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