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A heartwarming portrait of pre-gentrification Bushwick
Paradise Lost & Found — Photographer Meryl Meisler recounts working as a teacher in New York and capturing her neighbourhood at a time when the area was rife with poverty.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Photos celebrating 48 years of hip hop and its pioneers
The Elements — On hip hop’s 48th anniversary, photographer Joe Conzo Jr. has curated a special collection of seldom-seen photographs that embody the culture of the genre and its roots.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Photos capturing the stillness amid the chaos of street life
Moment of calm — Puerto Rican photographer Paola M. Franqui, AKA Monaris, describes her method of using image-making as a way of finding the beauty in mundane everyday life.
Written by: Miss Rosen
The Brooklyn culinary centre changing futures through food
Inside BCCC — Based out of Brownsville, BCCC provides free, world-class training to local residents, all while offering a space where the community can access fresh, affordable, culturally relevant foods.
Written by: Kizzy Cox
A photographer’s tender ode to his home of Jamaica
Island life — New York based artist Jeano Edwards discusses his project documenting young Jamaicans and his hopes of showing a softer, more nuanced, perspective of the island.
Written by: Huck
The grit and glamour of New York in the 1970s and ’80s
Street life — Scottish photographer Douglas Corrance recounts capturing joyous street scenes in NYC in an era where almost anyone could afford to live, work and play in the city.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Photos capturing the beauty and brutality of street life
Concrete jungle — Over the past six years, Suzanne Stein has photographed the streets of New York as a way of shedding light on stories that largely go unseen.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Ming Smith’s lyrical portrait of Black America
Breaking boundaries — A new exhibition of the African-American photographer’s pioneering work celebrates an artist who, over her five-decade-long career, has always followed her instinct over the status quo.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Intimate photos of the Chinese-American experience in NYC
Meet the Lams — In an attempt to better understand his own heritage, photographer Thomas Holton set out to document a single family‘s life in a nuanced portrayal of the Asian-American immigrant experience.
Written by: Miss Rosen
A photographer’s elegy to a divided New York community
Remnants of an exodus — Al J Thompson reflects on his series capturing a once-thriving diaspora in Spring Valley under threat of gentrification and the dramatic shift in its demographic and political landscape.
Written by: Huck
