Meryl Meisler worked as a school teacher in cracked-out, riot-prone 80s Bushwick—but she also carried a medium format camera everywhere she went, snapping epic photos…
This Photographer Ventures Into Strangers’ Bedrooms
The first people who responded to Emma Anderson’s classified ad seeking strangers to photograph — a couple in their late 40s who lived in public…
Bushwick History Photo Walk with Meryl Meisler
We all know Bushwick has changed, but none of us more so than Meryl Meisler. The photographer, who worked as an art teacher in Bushwick from…
The Syrian Refugee Crisis
Photojournalist Diego Cupolo has documented sinister environments and the tough lives lived in them from Bushwick to Montevideo. Tonight at WORD, he discusses his recently released book, Seven…
Hear Jack Ridley of Drowners Play While Your Mind Is Flooded With Photos of NYC
When photographer Pete Voelker first arrived in New York, he found the city overwhelming—and immediately began to document the constant movement and shifting surfaces of…
A Documentary Turns the Camera On Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin shot to fame with her visceral, heart-wrenching photographs of the drug-addled, sex-strewn lives of her East Village “tribe” in the late ’70s and early…
Peep These Old-School Photographs of New-School Skateboarders
Last November, photographer Matt Alberts loaded up his Airstream with three of his pals, a stock of chemicals, and a large format camera. The foursome…
In the East Village, an Upper West Sider’s Vision of ‘Williamsburg: Old and New’
It isn’t often that one decides to change career paths at the age of 69, but that’s precisely what Paul Kessel did. In his previous…
Alex Prager Used 20 Tons of Sand (and Her Sister) to Stage This Beach Scene
Alex Prager is not especially intimidating. The Los Angeles-based photographer is often smiling, rather petite and generally endearing. So it’s amusing to envision her atop…
Read Jill Freedman’s Epic Rant About Photography and the ‘Mechanized Mindlessness’ of Today’s NYC
It’s tough to out-talk Clayton Patterson, the Bloomberg-bashing photographer with the Santa beard who’s basically the Mayor of the LES. But Jill Freedman managed to…