“Everybody Street illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists.” http://alldayeveryday.com/everybody-street
Can’t wait to see this!
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On a recent field course trip to New York, I spent time with some friends researching the Polish community in Greenpoint, which is an area at the very northernmost tip of Brooklyn. While we were there we conducted 13 interviews which sought to uncover how the area is changing for the residents of Greenpoint, an area which has undergone immense gentrification in the last 10 years.
Once I transcribed the interviews from this I looked for patterns in the dialogue of the residents. Using these patterns as the basis for the piece below, I began to put the sentences together of different residents to create one voice- that of all the people who we spoke to.
“The Brooklyn accent is an evolution of Eastern European voices. 6 or 7 years ago, Greenpoint was Little Poland. Centre of the Polish Universe, something like that. It’s a ghetto, not any longer. My observation, I see Americans, I see Spanish. Huge artistic community. More hermetic, more mixed. This is a sign of the times.
It’s really changing, but it’s really not. It’s hard to say. There are two worlds, old and young. Elderly people, they aren’t too much happy. They are not easily adapting. Everyday watch Polish channel. They care much more what’s going on there. But, nothing basically changed. Yes, from seniors perspective nothing much changed. After five of ten years only knew how to say screwdriver and hammer. Still, live all life no English.
Younger folks, they like it more mixed. They speak English, they can do stuff. There are lots of bars. It is still easy to find a job. To study. They are the 3rd or 4th generations. They represent other waves of immigrants. They are living history. They have connections through their parents. It’s the relationships that you build from across the oceans. Some extra activity to learn polish, and folk dancing. But, now there has been a huge housing market jump. What can we do? $2500-3000 rent per month. No one lives here. Polish are moving to live in Ridgewood, in Queens.
The polish butchers are not as good or famous here as they used to be. In Greenpoint, we still have the Polish Delis. Polish Church. Polish Rock Bands. Polish Soccer League. Polish are very friendly. We take care of people. We’re Mahatma Ghandi.”
A Guardian article last week reported: “The scale of Detroit’s decline is dizzying. The city’s population has dropped from 2 million in 1950 to 700,000 today, as Detroiters have become fed up with decades of mismanagement and rising crime and poverty. Detroit’s murder rate is at a 40-year high, only a third of its ambulances are in working order, and nearly half its streetlights are broken.”
Detroit’s has become famous for it’s abandoned buildings, 78,000 in total. A great project. Detroiturbex, hopes to raise awareness of the social and economic challenges the city of Detroit faces through photography. This then and now photos highlight the city’s demise.
Amazing photos from Nagaland, India
So first things first. I’ve changed up the blog a bit. Now we’ve got REALLY BIG PICTURES. Which, seeing as I’m a photographer and all, seems only appropriate. I love looking at large photographs. Hopefully you do too. If you don’t. Well. What the hell is wrong with you?
Anyway. The photos here are all from Nagaland, India. Outtakes from an assignment I shot there late last year. See my previous post for those tearsheets. Nagaland is absolutely stunning. But nothing like the India I know and love. It’s more like a mountainous region in Myanmar or Thailand. And in fact, Kohima, where I was based, is barely a stone’s throw from the Burmese border. So it makes sense I guess. The locals I met even referred to the rest of India as “The Mainland”.
The photos here are all from around the time of the Hornbill Festival, which is…
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In New York City + POOL started with a simple goal: instead of trying to clean the entire river, what if you started by just cleaning a small piece of it? And what if you could change how New Yorkers see their rivers, just by giving them a chance to swim in it?
The project has reached its $250,000 target on Kickstarter.
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Photo taken from Creative Review
Penguin’s Philosophy in Transit series, aptly named – it’s designed for the daily commute, features close up shots of commuters by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Taken from the Penguin website, the first book, Truth by John D Caputo is outlined below.
“Riding to work in the morning has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some exercise. People used to live within walking distance to the fields in which they worked, or they worked in shops attached to their homes. Now we ride to work, and nearly everywhere else. Which may seem an innocent enough point, and certainly not one on which we require instruction from the philosophers. But, truth be told, it has in fact precipitated a crisis in our understanding of truth.
Arguing that transport is an important metaphor for our uncertain, freewheeling postmodernism age, where any reality is possible, John D. Caputo explores the ways in which science, ethics, politics, art and religion all claim to offer us the ‘truth’, and posits his own surprising theory of the many notions of truth.”
“The humble tin shed is an iconic Australian structure.”
“The project embraces that it will continue to change with time through rust, decay and repair.”
Photos by Mark Syke – if you fancy it, you can stay in the shed via airbnb
Following the success at San Franscisco’s international airport, 25-30 goats are set to arrive in Chicago as “sustainable vegetation management grazing services” to cover the 120 acres of foliage surrounding the airport.
Note that all goats will be separated from the airfield via secure fencing, although I worry about their ears!
KP Creative’s ‘Plastic Pacific’ explores the frightening reality of plastic in our oceans. The household objects are presented as the sea creatures which these very objects destroy in our oceans.
死ぬならこんな場所でがいい
“In such a place is good if i die”
Drawing by Onohana
green ice cream 