Jason Langer

Jason Langer is an adjunct teacher at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Life, Time, and Vanity Fair. He took this month’s cover photograph in 1997 in an alley off Canal Street in New York City, near Little Italy and Chinatown. It was his first time in that area of Manhattan. “The pigeons on that day were very well-behaved,” he says. Photo © JasonLanger/Getty Images.