Reflections From 80s New York — anothermag.com

Who? Born in 1960, American photographer Jamel Shabazz was raised on the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn in the midst of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war. He was frequently exposed to violent and disturbing imagery during his formative years, but at the age of 15 discovered a means of escapism when he picked up a camera and began to document his own view of the world. "It allowed me an opportunity to have a voice and use my voice in a way that could inspire love and unity," he explains. When he turned 17, he spent three years with the US army in Germany before returning to New York to work as a correctional officer – a career he pursued for the next 20 years. Throughout these years, Shabazz kept his camera close to hand, documenting the New York streets, and the young people to whom he devoted his time, and creating a candid visual journal of the era. 

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