What Gets Through the Lens

Jason Nocito shoots people the way they look when they’ve forgotten the camera exists—not because he’s tricked them, but because something in his attention creates the conditions for forgetting. The New York photographer has spent years embedded in music and fashion, and the best of his pictures carry that earned access like a fingerprint. A face mid-thought. A body not yet bracing for the shutter. Raw without announcing itself as raw. He makes it look effortless, which is always the surest sign that it isn’t.