From the relevant gallery on Payne's site: "Between 2016 and 2018, I made several dozen trips to the factory, photographing every aspect of production. A selection of these photographs was published in The New York Times Magazine in January 2018, with an accompanying essay by Sam Anderson."

Several dozen!

The gallery: https://www.chrispaynephoto.com/general-pencil-1

I just saw that he is the one who photographed "New York's Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind The Subway" a great book on the old substations that powered the NYC subway system. Certainly an excellent photographer.

Thank you for sharing this! Pretty much every single gallery on his website is awe-inspiring, he's an incredible artist.

Amazing! Thank you for pointing out that he has such a beautiful website with his work on it

I rolled my eyes reading your comment and went to the site to validate that your gushing praise was over the top. Boy was I wrong! His work is incredible!

Too many photographers these days misuse/overuse the Bokeh effect and lose important visual information in their photos. They also use poor lightning and coloring, under the guise it is artistic when in fact it is a frustrating loss of the visual elements.

Kudos to Chris Payne and his amazing work.

He had a coffee table book of photos come out not too long ago called "Made in America" that is really nice.

Correction: Payne isn't NYTimes staff.