The New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night and Cole Bradley was on the streets of New York with his Fuji X100F. 

What he came back with stopped us mid-pour this morning and we’ve been showing everyone coming into the house since. 

We've been following Cole’s work for a while now and when the Knicks won on Saturday we had a feeling something was coming worth sharing.

What Cole does that most photographers don't is refuse to chase the spectacle. Saturday night in New York after a 53-year wait for a championship was always going to deliver moments. That was guaranteed. Anyone with a camera pointed at the streets was going to find it. What's harder is finding the human truth sitting inside all that noise, the single face that captures what an entire city is feeling, the more subtle moment that says more about a night than the headline frame in the series. 

That's where Cole’s work lives and that's what makes this set of images worth more than the sum of its parts.

There's a quality to this kind of photography that's difficult to articulate but immediately felt by people who have an eye for a moment in time. It makes you wish you were there. Not to witness the event, but to be inside the specific version of it that Cole found. The New York in these images is warm and chaotic and deeply human in a way that the official record of Saturday night will never be, because the official record was looking at the scoreboard and Cole was looking at the people underneath it.

We don't follow a specific basketball team. But every now and then a photographer makes us feel something about a city we weren't in, on a night we didn't see coming. So for that reason. This week we’re representing the Kicks.

Shot of the good stuff.