The Bright side of the Bronx

Today I’m going to do a summary from a career related article that you can find in the online page of “The Guardian”

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/14/wayne-lawrence-bronx-riviera-new-york

The article talks about a photographer named Wayne Lawrence and his last book of photography where he created an archive of pictures of the only public beach of the Bronx in New York City.

Lawrence did not take the advice about not going to the south Bronx; he did not care about the bad reputation of the people that lives in there, in fact, that was the most attractive for him.

In the two pictures that we are able to see in the article, we can see how he took the pictures of what is considered as the most lowly that you can find in that state and make it beautiful.

The photographs are very attractive, they are colourful and sincere, you can see the personalities of the models just by the looks of them.

The portraits dignified their models, and as the article say:

 “Lawrence's work reinforces the fact that striking, honest images can change people's expectations. Framed in a spare, frontal manner, there's rare raw emotional cadence here, and each portrait is a willful look at vulnerability”

Lawrence was born in St Kitts and he regard himself as an “immigrant artist”, that’s why he want to dignified the people in his portraits, he’s just like the people in his pictures “ (…)I committed myself to using photography as a tool to confront long-standing ideas about race and class."