Bobby Doherty

Bobby Doherty is a photographer living in Brooklyn, New York.

A photograph of a man wearing a baseball cap, green hoodie, tan pants, and boots holds a white scroll in front of a short manicured bush in a parking lot. Behind him is a large McDonald’s sign on the left, and a McDonald’s building on the right.

Parking Lot Paradiso

Andrew Conboy, Bobby Doherty

January 5

Issue no. 82

The cliché rings true: life finds a way.

A photograph of a person painting the words “EAT SHIT” onto a piece of paper taped to cardboard that’s leaning on a desk, with other hand-lettered paintings hanging on the wall behind it.

No, Maybe

Jason Fulford

(

Thomas Prior, Daniel Arnold, Farah Al Qasimi, Annie Collinge & Rottingdean Bazaar, Bobby Doherty, Molly Matalon, John Wilson, Rosie Marks

)

September 2, 2025

Issue no. 80

I think of a grudge as a stubborn obstacle, a thorn, an ugly word. I’ve talked to photographers about this before, in a book I edited called Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph.