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The assignment desk, for one NEW YORK · Edition № 001

ASSIGNMENT

Street Photo · NYC
§  A dispatch, every morning
Read one line.
Decide in fifteen seconds.
Get the frame.

Every morning, Assignment gathers the city's shoots across all five boroughs and ranks them by editorial priority — not by what's loudest. The desk that decides who covers what, dispatched to your pocket. For photographers who shoot the street.

5 boroughs
One list, ranked
04:00 ET
Filed daily
On-device
No account · no noise
A crowd on 42nd Street holds phones overhead as the sun drops into the Manhattan grid.
Fig. 01 — Manhattanhenge, 42nd Street · By the time a crowd forms, the frame is already everyone's. Assignment files the day before the sun is up.
§ 01  /  The moment
07:20
Saturday. One hand on the phone, deciding if the camera is worth getting up for.

Assignment is built for that thirty seconds — not for browsing a catalogue.
No big event photos. No colored category chips. No dashboard. A dense list you can read half-asleep, in the dark, with your coat already on. If a screen asks for more than one decision, it failed.

Assignment Today screen — the day's shoots across five boroughs, ranked by editorial priority.
Fig. 02 — Today, ranked · One full flare per screen
§ 02

One graphic device.
The priority ruler.

No badges, no scores, no progress bars. A 3 px bar on the left edge of every shoot carries the whole judgment — its color and weight tell you what matters before you read a word. The accent appears, at most, once per screen. Scarcity is what makes it mean something.

Drop everything
The day's one shoot that can't be missed. Full flare, used with avarice.
85–100
Strong
Worth building the day around if you're anywhere near it.
70–84
On the desk
Dependable frames. There if you want them, quiet if you don't.
55–69
§ 03

Everything you need before
leaving the apartment.

Nothing you don't. A photographer's tool, not a feed. Plan the week, mark what you covered — a professional record, no points, no badges.

F·01

Today, ranked

The full day across five boroughs — parades, protests, festivals, ceremonies — ordered by time, weighted by editorial priority.

F·02

Light & sun times

First light, golden hour and sunset computed on-device for every shoot, so you know when the frame is actually there.

F·03

Distance from you

Real distance to each blockface, right in the row. Filter by borough, category and impact — nearest, worth-it work first.

F·04

The morning brief

A quiet local notification with the week's strong shoots. No servers, no login, no push tracking. The desk, dispatched.

F·05

Save & log coverage

Plan the week, mark what you covered. A professional record of your work — no points, no badges, no gamification.

F·06

Share cards

Turn any assignment into a feed or story card in the app's own language — straight to Instagram or the share sheet.

§ 04

Assignment Pro

The full list, the ruler and the morning brief are free — forever. Pro is for the photographer who wants to be pinged the moment a top shoot lands in range.

Monthly
$4.99
per month
AnnualBest value
$29.99
per year
Two months free.
  • High-priority alerts

    A heads-up before every 85+ shoot in your week.

  • Custom alert radius

    Only get pinged for shoots within your range.

  • Saved filters

    Your impact, category and borough — kept every launch.

The city's already moving. Don't miss the frame.

Assignment is on the App Store for iPhone. Built for photographers who decide fast and shoot faster.

Download on the App Store
Midtown · blue hour — the desk files again at 04:00