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  • Captured for @nytimes Herman James has spent much of the quarantine in Central Park providing hair cuts while most barber shops and salons were closed. Despite the slow reopening of NYC businesses, @hairitage121957 has become somewhat of a neighbourhood cult hero on the the city’s Upper West Side. Wonderful story by @emilyepalmer
  • Where are we going? New York, 2020.
  • Captured for @nytimes Sunday print edition - “Newark Artists, Thriving Amid Crisis and Catharsis.” When I was asked by my editor to break out from the NYC protests for a few days to cover a story in New Jersey, it was the kind of reprieve whose significance wasn’t immediately realised. But I found myself in hanging out with a group of wonderful artists throughout downtown Newark who were part of a tightly knit community that offered a unique perspective to both the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. They allowed me to breathe a little. Whereas New York had been full-tilt, overloaded with energy and sometimes overwrought, the air in Newark was surprisingly calm. Sure, similar anxieties and frustrations and pains existed. But these artists were family, and nothing seemed more paramount than supporting each other. There are too many people to tag in this post, but I wanted to give a special shoutout to @siddharthamitter for writing this wonderful feature, @lauraoneillnyc for both trusting and supporting my desire to document this story with my preferred tools, @shippa__ for her amazing assistance, and last but not least @dolo_foto for helping me organise all the moving parts in Newark. Link in bio, Pentax 67 Portra 400 #blacklivesmatter #newarkisforartists
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  • Social Distance. Captured for @time
  • Captured for @nytimes Stella, Theo and Melany are schoolmates who organised a protest for children in Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park during the first full week of protests for the police deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. About 300 people arrived to join them. If you are sitting on your phone or laptop and have been saying that you want to contribute to the cause but haven’t yet because you don’t know how, a plethora of solutions are literally a click away. The only thing holding you back now is you.
  • Juneteenth Captured for @nytimes
  • CommUNITY. Captured for @nytimes
  • Captured for @nytimes A rally for black trans people drew thousands of protesters dressed in white, recalling one of the most notable protests in New York history, the Silent Parade, when the N.A.A.C.P. assembled nearly 10,000 people in 1917, all wearing white and silently marching down Fifth Avenue to demand an end to violence against black people. A century later, the spirit of that movement lived on a day before the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision for gay and trans rights in the US. _ On a personal note, some of the most beautiful and heartbreaking speeches I’ve ever witnessed in my life were delivered on this day. No human being should ever have to plead to be loved and respected by the rest of humanity simply for existing. ....I never would have imagined that black trans people in particular would have as many white allies that showed up to the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday. _ Thank you, New York, for continuing to surprise and educate me.
  • Protect the Future.
  • Captured for @nytimes The revolution will not be televised.
  • Captured for @nytimes When I bought my first camera, it was simply because I needed something to do. I didn’t have an exact goal to become a photographer, but there was this explicit idea to pick up something I’d never done before and try to see if I could come close to mastering a skill through repetition. I chose a photo camera even though at the time I couldn’t afford it, and was extremely nervous about losing interest in it and having the camera soon collect dust on a shelf. That I definitely couldn’t afford. What prompted me to go out onto the streets and start asking random strangers if I could take their portrait was simple: I wanted to meet people. And meeting people is easy. (If you know, you know) Although my initial motivation was to build a proficiency by taking portraits over and over and every day, it occurred to me that what really got me out of bed was simply the chance to meet people. Most interactions would be about the same and could take anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes, but occasionally, a chance meeting would happen that would alter the course of both my day and my future. As time went on I would photograph thousands of strangers on the street, always for free and without bias. I get this question in my inbox several times a day now: some of you wonder with a movement like this if it is difficult for me to capture portraits of people when so many people feel uneasy about having their photo taken. I would say that as sentient beings we communicate in so many ways with each other that are not strictly verbal. When I say that approaching people to capture their portrait is easy for me, it is not a signal that I am better than you or any other photographer. (There are an endless number of photographers wildly better.) But, it is a reflection of the thousands of hours I had already put into approaching thousands of people for a photograph. When I approach someone for a photo, esp during these times, I ultimately hope they understand it is because I genuinely “see them”, and I want the world to see what I see. I never explain this in the moment, but we are communicating without words. I believe that they know.

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