United Technologies has commissioned artists Chuck Close, Mitch Epstein and
Dayanita Singh to capture the changing urban environment in outdoor
photography exhibitions titled Cities in Transition in New York City, Boston and Hartford through October. Here’s the scoop:

Five images from each artist will look at how urban America is
evolving, including the face of immigrants in New York, the effect of
the automobile on Boston and the changing landscape of Hartford. The
photographs will be installed in Madison Square Park in New York City,
Downtown Crossing Station in Boston and Bushnell Park in Hartford.

American painter, photographer/printmaker Chuck Close photographed
New York City.

American photographer and filmmaker Mitch Epstein shot
Boston. Indian photographer Dayanita Singh, known for her portraits and
landscape images, captured Hartford (where United Technologies is located).

In addition to the 2006 Public Art Project, UTC is partnering
with the International Center of Photography on its Second Triennial
for Photography and Video, titled Ecotopia, in New York City, and with the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston for an event celebrating its opening this fall.

More than 100 photographic, video, and installation art works on the
theme of humanity’s relation to the natural world make up a
UTC-sponsored exhibition on view through Jan. 7 at ICP.