New York in Pictures

For the last six months I've been learning to take pictures with a digital SLR camera. I even took a digital photography class at UC Berkeley, which really opened my eyes to all the variables and complexities involved in making good photographs. I have a friend who has been shooting for somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 years, and want to share with you some of his amazing work. If you scroll through the pages you will find some extraordinary pictures of New York City street art from the era of Haring and Basquiat, and scenes of protests that took place in various parts of the city in the 1980s. I found the Bensonhurst series particularly arresting. This is a New York that no longer exists, that people barely remember anymore, even those of us who were there, and I was moved to see it so vividly documented here. There is also a series of moody and dreamy atmospheric photos taken with a plastic toy camera called a Diana. You can view the work here; it is well worth exploring.