EF Tester: Brooklyn's Shadows

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Brooklyn's Shadows

Serbian photographer Boogie grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in 1998, he started observing New York’s bleak street side of life with monochrome shots. Distinctively, his work isn’t emphatic. He doesn’t judge. He is more reporting on a not so distant universe with a fine eye for detail - and a lot of guts. Check out his photo's, an amzing look into Brooklyn's shadows.

"This whole life is a bunch of choices you make and they just made a couple of wrong ones," says photographer Boogie about his series on junkies in Brooklyn. © Boogie

From Boogie’s “Gangs” series: Kind of intimidating demonstration of power and love. © Boogie

Kids are part of it too, part II… A crack junkie’s home, from the “Drugs” series. © Boogie

His pictures are captivating to say the least. A true look at some of the people trying to survive in Brooklyn's shadows. Check out the link here to see the entire gallery and interview:

1 comment:

AnonymousJanuary 30, 2008 at 2:37 PM
I respect Boogie's hustle, coming from adversity he might of faced coming from another part of the world.... he shows a different way a life... In a different form of slang, he basically gave a brief description of the term called Hood Life.... His expressive art through his way of visual photography just shows the different hardships across the world... shoutouts 2 BK!!!!
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