Images from Dinner With Igor

Nate “Igor” Smith is what you might call an alternative photographer: The veteran Voice shooter has documented icons of alternative culture — porn stars, stand-up comics, hipsters, musicians, bartenders, chefs, and tattoo artists — for much of the past decade in New York. The following images are included in his latest book, Dinner With Igor. Most of the photos are shot straight-on from across the table (many at Williamsburg landmarks Kellogg’s Diner and DuMont Burger on Bedford). “I like food, everybody likes food,” says Smith, pretty plainly, when asked about setting. “With Instagram I feel you see more photos of people’s food than of them eating it.” The book includes New York chef Chris Santos and Brooklyn baker Ashley Holt, Girls stars Lena Dunham and Allison Williams, Flight of the Conchords actor Jermaine Clement, competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti, and porn star Bonnie Rotten, among them. There’s a book release party planned for January 8 at The Woods in Brooklyn.