Another contact I met through Ezy Ryders, Robert Preven displays his 1948 NYPD Indian Chief motorcycle in the Wall Street Journal column “My Ride.” We had a good shoot at Flushing-Corona Meadows Park in Queens on a freezing January day. Read here
Catherine Flax Photographer: Cate Dingley/Bloomberg
Bloomberg: Women Desert Trading Floors as Bias Blocks Path to Management
For Bloomberg Markets, I photographed Catherine Flax, former Americas head of foreign exchange and commodities at BNP Paribas, for a story about why she and other women left Wall Street. It's always a pleasure to meet with women who've made multiple successful careers and pushed over hurdles that many of their males colleagues don't face. Read the article
Girl Under Glass artist book now available
In 2014 & 2015, I photographed inside Times Square’s last live peep show. My nostalgia for gritty midtown New York, derived from watching 1970s classics like Midnight Cowboy, was tempered after spending countless nights on the third floor of the porn shop where the cubicle booths entertained a wide variety of customers. The sleaze and hustle still exist in a few corners of the Disneyfied Deuce.
Four years after photographing I decided to make a small book. Disguised behind an old pulp fiction cover, “Girl Under Glass” is a signed and numbered edition of 50, and it includes 23 photographs and accompanying text. To protect the privacy of the women photographed, this intimate book format is the only way the full series can be viewed. If you’re interested, find instructions to purchase one of the limited edition here.
My Ride: Meatloaf's Custom Harley
Online and in print in The Wall Street Journal’s My Ride column, read about the talented Meatloaf, whom I met through my Ezy Ryders project. He customized this motorcycle himself from a Harley-Davidson Street Rod and the Tiffany blue spaceship purrs like a cat... Read here
Exhibition "Documentary Now" Opens Tonight
Honored to be included in this exhibition with photographers I've admired for a long time. Runs March 24-April 21, 2018.
Join us tonight for the opening:
March 24, 2018
7-9 PM
Mills Pond Gallery
660 New York 25A
St. James, NY 11780
Exhibiting Photographers:
Ted Barron, Fatemeh Behboudi, Alfredo Bini, Sylvain Cherkaoui, James Whitlow Delano, Cate Dingley, Kevin C. Downs, Jérôme Gence, Sid Kaplan, Boryan Katsarova, Andrew Lichtenstein, Ken Light, Catalina Martin-Chico, Beth Nakamura, Robert Nickelsberg, Frédéric Noy, Peggy Peattie, Lois Raimondo, J. B. Russell, Q. Sakamaki, Ekaterina Solovieva, Maggie Steber, Joana Toro, Melanie Wenger
Ezy Ryders show in just a few weeks!
Ezy Ryders will be on view for one day only, July 10, 2016, in an interactive outdoor installation at the Steel Horses Motorcycle Club in East New York, with select photographs remaining on the walls until weather deteriorates them. The opening on July 10 will be during the Steel Horses MC bike blessing, an annual event that draws thousands of local riders for a block party-style celebration with food, music, and a prayer to keep the riders safe on the road for the upcoming year.
Ezy Ryders is an ongoing body of work spanning two years about the black motorcycle club culture in New York City. Formal portraits highlight the individuality of the riders, and photographs from bike blessings, trophy parties, and road trips depict the strong community both within the clubs and between clubs from all over the city.
The exhibition is comprised of photographic wheatpastes, large-format black & white prints pasted to exterior walls in two different locations, Steel Horses Motorcycle Club (740 E 98th St, Brooklyn), and Black Falcons Motorcycle Club (523 Bruckner Boulevard, Bronx). The full show can only be viewed the day of the opening, but some photographs will remain on the walls in both locations to weather and fade with the elements. Viewers are encouraged to visit the Bronx to see the photographs pasted up at the Black Falcons Clubhouse, for a joy ride between boroughs similar to ones the clubs make frequently themselves.
This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). This event would not be possible without the Black Falcons MC & the Steel Horses MC- huge thanks.
TRANSPORTATION:
MTA: Take the 3 train to Rockaway Ave. Right outside the station, take the B60 bus to Rockaway/Ditmas Ave. Walk 2 blocks west.
OR, Take the C train to Rockaway Ave. Right outside the station, take the B60 bus to Rockaway/Ditmas Ave. Walk 2 blocks west.