- Enoch Oyedibu
- Driftershoots, Issac Wright, New York City, New York Times Tower
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“the timing was right and a door opened for a friend and I to land inside this highly secured building.
Isaac Wright, also known as Drifter Shoots is well known for taking NFT photos. He is acclaimed the best among the NFT photographers in the world, thanks to His “Where My Vans Go” collection which has traded over $5M worth of volume and the current floor price for the collection of 117 individual pieces is~$100K. The photos in the collection jump out at anyone that sees them. In fact, after a few minutes viewing the collection one is bound to quickly recognize that not many NFT collections vibe harder than the collection.
Though Wright has taken a couple of other shoots which remain the best of their kinds in the history, his recent photos taken while hiking on the New York Times Tower, one of the tallest in the city remain the never-seen remarkable photos.
What Wright did this time took the world by storm, probably, the best of it, in his backpacking career. He was brazen enough to dare the tallest and yet, the brightest building in New York City.
Taking photos at New York’s most secured building, Wright thinks the adventure is also the way of exploiting the flaw in the security loopholes of the building.
“I have had the pleasure of creating art here multiple times, but on this particular occasion, the timing was right and a door opened for a friend and I to land inside this highly secured building. Silently exploiting the flaw in security, we made our way up to shoot,” the climber wrote on his X account.
The New York Times Building is a 52-story skyscraper at 620 Eighth Avenue. Its chief tenant is the New York Times Company, publisher of The New York Times. The building is 1,046 ft (318.8 m) tall to its pinnacle, with a roof height of 748 ft (228 m). Wright climbs to the top of the roof and shoots his biggest shot ever.
It was a daredevil experience and he could’ve fallen and slipped to his end. But Wright not only gets itchy feet, he also has an undisputable luck to achieve the unimaginable.
Driftershoots photos anchored by Wright often speak for themselves. His journey from growing up in Cincinnati to joining Special Forces in the U.S. Army to urban exploration to jail to the NFT space is even more remarkable.
Wright had several challenges staring at him while climbing, but he chooses never to give up. He had time and the darkest hour of the day hurling at him. No time. But His determination stemming from the possibility of exploring a new height, hitting a new horizon and exploiting the security peccadillo, catapults him to forge ahead. Now, he has achieved the greatest feat ever.
In achieving possibly the best photos of the world, Driftershoots ended up “flying the drone first, capturing some aerial footage of a friend and then later myself,” he wrote. This effort was, to him, “a cinematic dream” which gave him “the opportunity for once in a lifetime image making. I did not waste the chance,” he wrote.
The climbing has different significant values. For Times Building, security measures might be tightened and improved. But for Wright, the importance of climbing is practically the opposite. “The importance of this climb to me was location and backdrop,” Driftershoots wrote. “It was a beautiful and unique place to capture something unlike anything else. I brought my NYT article to mark the occasion. We returned safely home with some of my favorite images to date.”
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Enoch Oyedibu
I am a writer and investigative journalist who specialises in literary criticism and underrepresented narratives. Among other publications, I have been featured in Business Day Nigeria, TheICIR, Platform Times and Daily Nigerian. Right now, I work as a full-time staff writer for Unconventional Magazine.
