An illustrated homage to New York City’s independent shops – in pictures

During the pandemic, New York-based illustrator Joel Holland started drawing all the places he would normally visit with his two daughters – butchers, bookshops, sandwich stands – to console himself and to celebrate local independent businesses. “These places are the lifeblood of where we live,” he says. He has since drawn nearly 500 stores in Manhattan, collected in the book NYC Storefronts (published by Prestel; Brooklyn and London editions are forthcoming).