Daniel Arnold – You Are What You Do

Arnold’s pursuit of the human moment reveals an artist of emotional range in a city alive with contradiction and complexity. Loose Joints is proud to present You Are What You Do , a monograph by Daniel Arnold — one of New York’s most renowned and obsessive modern street photographers. Over the past fifteen years, Arnold has become a cult figure in the city’s visual culture, known for his raw, humanistic encounters with its citizens and for collaborations spanning from the Safdie brothers to the Met Gala and beyond. Rooted in a well-trodden lineage of New York street photography, Arnold’s work channels the chaos, chutzpah, humour and vitality that define the city, yet You Are What You Do reveals something more: a tenderness and empathy that courses through every frame. There are genuine moments of sadness and grief mixed with joy, alongside spontaneous, unscripted scenes of pure street cinema, blended with candid images from fashion shoots and film sets, all sitting effortlessly within Arnold’s generous visual language. Working from a vast archive, this generous landscape-format monograph distills Arnold’s signature wry, tragicomic style into a spacious and classical book object. From the glamorous heights of high culture to the downtrodden and overlooked, You Are What You Do draws a wide, empathetic circle around New York’s characters and charm. Daniel Arnold (b. 1980, USA) is a photographer whose candid, street-level images capture the unfiltered rhythms of urban life. Arnold is based in New York and his first monograph, Pickpocket , was published by Elara Press in 2022. His photography regularly appears in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, and Interview magazine. His recent solo exhibitions include New York Life, New York Life Gallery and New Photographs, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Special Edition also available with two pigment prints Limited edition t-shirts now available online Section-sewn landscape hardcover with dust jacket and mirrored sticker 275 x 225 mm, 184 pages, 124 colour plates Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon Designed by Loose Joints Studio LJ215, November 2025 ISBN 978-1-912719-70-9 Prize Shortlisted for the 2026 Book Awards of Les Rencontres d'Arles Events: New York Launch Thurs 6 Nov 6-7.30pm Paris Launch Fri 14 Nov 7-11pm LA Launch Sat 22 Nov 4–6pm London Launch Fri 5 Dec, 5.30-8pm New York Conversation Thurs 11 Dec, 6-8pm Press: Aperture AnOther The Observer Dazed The Guardian WePresent Harper's Bazaar France New York Times SPOT Télérama Elle Italia Hero Creative Review Lampoon Magazine De Standaard MUSE Collector Daily