🚕 Ryan Weideman arrived in New York in 1980 with a Master of Fine Arts under his arm and not a dollar to spare. The solution was driving a taxi. What he didn’t know was that that steering wheel was going to be his best artistic decision. 📸 From the driver’s seat, he began photographing everyone who got in: models, poets, anonymous people, celebrities. His images are unusual because they include everything at once: himself, the passenger, and the street moving outside the window. As if the taxi were a rolling theater. The defining moment came in 1990, when Allen Ginsberg got into his cab. At the end of the ride, the poet scribbled some playful verses for him. That piece of paper became one of the most iconic pieces of his career. 🏛️ Today his work hangs in the collections of major museums and has earned three prestigious fellowships, including a Guggenheim. The next time you get into a taxi, you might wonder who’s behind the wheel.