Street Photography in Brooklyn

[Timmyjoe]

Came across this interesting article on a street photographer in Brooklyn.

William Castellana photographs his neighbors

Hope you enjoy.

 

[cz23]

Thanks for the link. Nice to see such a distinctive neighborhood in the otherwise mostly monolithic streets of the USA.

The pictures looked so much like my GR output that I had to look at the Exif. Sure enough.

John

 

[jsrockit]

Castellana appears to know little of NYC. A visit to Lowes or Home Depot right after Shabbos would have been good for Castellana.

Well, I think a lot of us choose to see what we want to see when photographing, or just looking around, NYC.

 

[Timmyjoe]

Amazing how one can totally misrepresent an area, there is so much new construction there it is jarring to those who somehow imagine that south Williamsburg is a quiet old world community.

Castellana appears to know little of NYC. A visit to Lowes or Home Depot right after Shabbos would have been good for Castellana.

Or maybe he chose to photograph what he wanted to convey. If you read the article you would know that he lives in the neighborhood, so I'm sure he's aware of the construction. Just because you might want to focus a photo project on that construction, doesn't mean someone who chooses a different focus is "misrepresenting" the area.

 

[daveleo]

Thanks for posting the article link. But to be honest, there is no magic (for me) in those pictures, and the article is not wonderfully written.
HOWEVER, I did Google his name and I really *love* his still life work. Very much more than his street work. That's not surprising, given that he's been into "street" for only 2 years.

 

[seakayaker1]

Thanks for the link. Enjoyed the photographs and the article.

 

[13Promet]

You are right of course, he chose the to photograph what he wanted to convey, which was my point.

That's what all of us do when taking pictures.
I would not call it "misrepresentation", though: it's just your own representation or - I'd rather say - expression.

 

[back alley]

he wasn't photographing an area as much as putting his focus on the 'hasidic jews' in that area...

 

[kbg32]

There are a couple of really good images in this article. To have a show of this work after only one year, I would have waited and photographed more...for a few years. This selection tells me nothing of their daily lives. Too many images of people standing around or crossing the street. Just because someone dresses different, follows a religious calling, does not always make for interesting images. This is a vibrant community and a difficult one to enter. It's too bad these images do not show it or that struggle.