The Kansas City skyline rising over the brick buildings of the Crossroads district
Nº 21Travel PhotographyKansas City

Kansas
City

A city that rewards the second look.

A travel and documentary photography series from Kansas City — a place that rewards the second look.

Kansas City, past the postcard — the blocks, the light, the everyday.

Shot across the city and its neighbourhoods, looking for the ordinary hours that don’t make the brochure.

The neoclassical facade of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art across its plaza, Kansas City
The stone Nelson-Atkins building meeting the modern Bloch Building against the sky, Kansas City
The columned facade of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, people on the steps, Kansas City
A 'Broadway Coffee' neon sign glowing at night, Kansas City
A string-lit arcaded courtyard set with cafe tables, Kansas City
The classic 'Town Topic Hamburgers' neon sign at night, Kansas City
A hotel sitting room with mid-century chairs, a Persian rug and lamplight, Kansas City
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A woman sipping coffee on a rattan sofa on a sunlit porch, Kansas City
A checkered-floor sunroom with bentwood chairs and a lamp, Kansas City
A historic red-brick building with a popcorn-company sign at a Wyandotte Street corner, Kansas City
A lively brick-walled loft cafe full of people at golden hour, Kansas City
A modern wood-clad building with a rooster sign and landscaping, Kansas City
A bottle of Topo Chico beside a plate of spring rolls with dipping sauce, Kansas City
Three restaurant staff posing together in the kitchen, Kansas City
A two-storey clapboard house with a porch on an autumn street, Kansas City
A red Chevrolet Corvette parked in a brick building's garage off the alley, Kansas City
A lantern sconce casting long shadows on a fluted stone column at golden hour, Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City
The low translucent Bloch Building of the Nelson-Atkins over a brick path and lawn, Kansas City
A glowing glass lens of the Bloch Building amid autumn trees, Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City
A man playing guitar on a bench under bare autumn trees, Kansas City
A man on a wood bench among fallen autumn leaves in the sun, Kansas City
A stately brick Colonial mansion with white columns on a lawn, Kansas City
A warm brick-walled restaurant full of diners by the windows at golden hour, Kansas City
A view to the Kansas City skyline over the Crossroads brick buildings
The Blue Room jazz club's neon sign on a brick building, 18th & Vine, Kansas City
A one-way street of brick buildings and parked cars at golden hour, Kansas City
A stucco building painted with musical notes and a treble clef, steps to a green door, 18th & Vine, Kansas City
The piano-and-sax sign of the Historic Club Mardi Gras against a brick wall, 18th & Vine, Kansas City

Not the skyline. The streets under it.

Kansas City.

Kansas City · Kansas CityJacob Sigala