just to clarify - these are not my photos, and I do not know the photographer. A photo friend sent me this link, and I found it fascinating.
I'm guessing/hoping a few of you will like it as much as I did, and even though they aren't my pictures, I would love to hear some feedback / criticism on them.
http://multimedia.cyberpresse.ca/brooklyn/index.html
translated comments that they wrote in french for each picture:
-This Pitbull is trained to fight
-A baby is being washed in the kitchen sink in bushwick
-This mother is about to smoke crack
-Tony is blind since he got beaten with a metal bar. "In the streets, they steal his social security check every month, he is forced to eat what he finds in the garbage", says Boogie
-Martie and Ray are addicted to crack and heroin. They say they never do it in front of their kids.
-Ray lost his eye in a street fight
-Martie answers to his kids who are asking for help for their homework
-Perla needs alot of time to find a vein to to stick the needle in
-A crack pipe and a dose worth 10$
-The floor at Perla's house is stained with dried blood
-Ray after he smoked
-A Hyperactive kid under medication
--Boogie talking--
-The 1st of a serie of gun totting pictures. "That night, i wasnt able to sleep", says Boogie. The kid on the left is now in jail for murder.
-"Blood up" says the tag. At Bushwick and Bedstuy, Boogie mostly met Bloods but only a few crips.
-The Tek-9 is popular with young gang members
-Tools of the trade. A revolver and 10$ crack bags
-A Glock that goes for 400$ in the projects. "But you dont buy guns here, you take em from someone else" says a young men to Boogie.
-The hanging rat is a death threat coming from the Latin Kings to a man suspected to have snitched to the police.
-We do funereals at a florist in Bushwick
-A 16 years old girl
--Boogie talking--
-This girl got caught in the middle of a gun fight and it cut her face. Her boyfriend is still looking for the shooter.
-This Pitbull is trained to fight
-A baby is being washed in the kitchen sink in bushwick
-This mother is about to smoke crack
-Tony is blind since he got beaten with a metal bar. "In the streets, they steal his social security check every month, he is forced to eat what he finds in the garbage", says Boogie
-Martie and Ray are addicted to crack and heroin. They say they never do it in front of their kids.
-Ray lost his eye in a street fight
-Martie answers to his kids who are asking for help for their homework
-Perla needs alot of time to find a vein to to stick the needle in
-A crack pipe and a dose worth 10$
-The floor at Perla's house is stained with dried blood
-Ray after he smoked
-A Hyperactive kid under medication
--Boogie talking--
-The 1st of a serie of gun totting pictures. "That night, i wasnt able to sleep", says Boogie. The kid on the left is now in jail for murder.
-"Blood up" says the tag. At Bushwick and Bedstuy, Boogie mostly met Bloods but only a few crips.
-The Tek-9 is popular with young gang members
-Tools of the trade. A revolver and 10$ crack bags
-A Glock that goes for 400$ in the projects. "But you dont buy guns here, you take em from someone else" says a young men to Boogie.
-The hanging rat is a death threat coming from the Latin Kings to a man suspected to have snitched to the police.
-We do funereals at a florist in Bushwick
-A 16 years old girl
--Boogie talking--
-This girl got caught in the middle of a gun fight and it cut her face. Her boyfriend is still looking for the shooter.
Thank God!
