Tag: Jamel Shabazz
Prospect Park, 2010 © Jamel Shabazz, 2025 Fifty years after Jamel Shabazz first started making photographs, he returns to his roots with Prospect Park: Photographs of a Brooklyn Oasis, 1980 to 2025 (Prestel) — the place where it all began. As a young boy first learning the landscape of Red Hook, Brooklyn, during the 1960s, […]
(Jamel Shabazz: Albums | Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation) As a young boy growing up in Red Hook during the 1960s, photographer Jamel Shabazz lived in a mythic city that has long since disappeared but for the people, photographs, and stories that preserve a bygone era. His family lived in one of the newest Brooklyn housing […]
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer is the the latest film from Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn. The aptly entitled documentary offers a glimpse into the life of Shabazz, a notable photographer who’s well known for his unique stylings of subjects and the access he was able to achieve while documenting old school NYC street culture. ANIMAL spoke to Ahearn […]
