Barry Batinkoff is a New York based photographer. He photographed the Lure of Luxury in midtown Manhattan from 2006 - 2014. After Covid-19 had wreaked havoc for six months on New York City and he had been self-quaranting in upstate, he felt he needed to do something that he could share of New York. He created Barry Batinkoff's New York City abstracts which are strange, beautiful, and exciting, He researched, photographed, edited and published his memoir "Genocide Alters Generations" as a personal decades long search for truth, understanding and closure about his own family tragedy. Batinkoff received degrees from Cornell University and Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts. Prior to graduating professional photography school at age 60 Batinkoff was a prominent New York State agribusiness person.