Typographer Craig Ward collected bacteria from the NYC subway and photographed it. "They look like little worlds that's what I like about them. They're very much a snapshot of the people of New York and commuters. The subway, as rife as it is with bacteria, isn't a hospitable environment for the bacteria. So if I hadn't captured it on that particular day, it would've been dead within hours or a day or so at most. You feel very small here, but just be happy about the fact there's a lot of smaller individuals just sort of struggling with New York on your train as well as you."

Watch the full video here:    • Portraits of Bacteria on the New York...  

Credits:
Director/Editor
Emily Driscoll

Filmed by
Jeff Nash

Music
Audio Network

Photography
Craig Ward
Tasha Sturm
The Mason Lab
The Wall Street Journal and Martin Burch, Chris Canipe, Madeline Farbman, Rachel Feierman and Robert Lee Hotz

Special Thanks
Christopher Mason
Craig Ward
Luke Groskin
Weill Cornell Medicine