Norman Reedus has spent a lifetime walking the line between the exalted and the forsaken, the saintly and the sinister, a man whose presence on screen lingers like a bruise, dark and unmistakable. He found early notoriety in The Boondock Saints, wielding a rosary and a revolver with equal conviction, a baptism in blood and brotherhood. But it was The Walking Dead that sealed his place in modern folklore: Daryl Dixon, the lone wolf with a crossbow, an unbreakable survivor in a world stripped to its bones. Reedus moves through roles like a ghost with unfinished business, his performances steeped in grit and quiet desperation.
Yet this polymath’s darting eyes reach beyond the frame. His photography captures the in-between, the half-lit world where life breathes through broken glass and vacant eyes. Stark, intimate, sometimes violent, his images of outcasts, wreckage, and fleeting tenderness are a mirror to the man himself, forever drawn to the beautifully ruined.
In Transit moves like a restless whisper through time, a visual chronicle of fleeting moments and fractured memories. This collection reminds us that existence itself is a state of motion, a passage through places, faces, and fragments of light. His lens captures a world on the brink: neon-lit corridors, anonymous streets, faces caught between knowing and forgetting, high contrast fever dreams hovering somewhere between the Lynchian and the Orwellian. From the raw underground of the ’90s to the present, over 100 photographs unfold like a fevered recollection, each frame humming with urgency, transience, and the electric hum of life slipping quietly past.
“It’s a yearbook… moments that got me from here to there,” Reedus says. “Urban environments and countryside, hot and cold times, exhilarating and depressing. It all very nostalgic.”
The Soho Grand Hotel swelled with restless energy on February 26, a gathering of iconoclasts and misfits convening under the electric hum of FeralCat Production’s launch for the Norman Reedus: In Transit exhibit (sponsored by Bailey Hats and Hendricks Gin), a collection of photographs that glows with the restless momentum of decades spent on the move. Miss Guy (Toilet Böys) spun some tasty tunes for the gallery opening, while DJ Aku (Florence & The Machine) wowed the dance floor at the afterparty.
Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie paid their respects as well as Charlotte Kemp Muhl and Jack James Busa of Uni and the Urchins; Orville Peck, masked and mysterious, loomed near fashion designer Jill Stuart, while the Queen of the Night herself, Dianne Brill, held court among the revelers. Legendary photographers Jesse Frohman and Dustin Pittman were also in attendance, as well as Pati Rock, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Donna D’Cruz, and Fern Mallis. And somewhere in the crowd, Suzi Ronson materialized- the genius behind Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust hair transformation. It was a night where time bent backward and forward, where the past bled into the present, where Reedus’s restless lens found its rightful altar: a city that never sleeps, caught between light and oblivion.
The exhibition remains at the Soho Grand Gallery through May 18, free to the wandering and the curious. Step inside and see the world through Reedus’s lens—raw, immediate, and unflinching.
(Photos by Alice Teeple)
Beautifully bound in a 14″ x 10.5″ format with 128 pages of imagery and featuring three exclusive essays from art writers Lara Pan, Stephen Pollock, and Noah Becker, In Transit documents Reedus’s growth as an photographer and the medium of visual storytelling.
This first edition book is housed in a slipcase adorned with foil stamping and de-bossed photograph, making it a true collector’s item. In Transit is a captivating reflection of a life lived on an unmapped road; every turn revealing unexpected moments, new surprises, and the thrill of never knowing what lies beyond the horizon. The Collector’s Edition includes a NYC Gallery exclusive tote bag, a bookplate signed by Reedus, and a signed Polaroid.
In Transit is only available through Big Bald Gallery. Order your copy, as well as other merch, here. Get a glimpse at the collection below:
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