When a mustachioed and smiling man with a large camera dangling around his neck tucked a beer into his jacket pocket and emerged from the gaggle of people surrounding the Bronx Documentary Center, I knew we had arrived at the most happening corner in the Boogie Down on an early Saturday night.
The gaggle and the dozens slowly moving around inside the Documentary Center, at the corner of 151st Street and Courtlandt Avenue, were there for the opening night of the new photography exhibit, “Seis Del Sur” (Six From the South [Bronx]), which is garnering loads of positive attention for the artists and the center.
There may have been music playing. I couldn’t tell. It was too loud with boisterous conversation and laughter and activity and people photographing the photographs and people making iPhone movies of people photographing the photographs.
This was the Bronx at its best and it bodes well for the future of the borough.
For one, the content of the exhibit is spectacularly beautiful in its intimacy and display of sheer talent. The six photographers whose work is shown are Puerto Ricans who mostly grew up and became adults in the South Bronx during the 1970s and 1980s. Each has enjoyed artistic and professional success over the years.
(I say “mostly” because Angel Franco, a longtime photographer for the New York Times, says his family were gypsies who moved around a lot and it would be inaccurate to pigeonhole him to just one borough.)
Franco won a couple of Pulitzer Prizes and his work has appeared in galleries all over the world. Times journalist David Gonzalez is known more for his words, but now edits the Lens Blog on the Times’ website. Ricky Flores now works as a staff photographer for the Journal News and boasts a vast archive of old school Bronx photographs. The dapper Edwin Pagan is a successful filmmaker and the founder of Latin Horror, a website dedicated to the under-appreciated genre.
It also includes some local northwest Bronx connections. Contributors Joe Conzo and Francisco Reyes, no slouches themselves, now live in Norwood.
All of them deliver the goods in this show. It’s simply great insight into the lives of Bronxites during the infamous “Bronx is Burning” days because the images aren’t focused on burned-out buildings (though they do make for some vivid backgrounds). Instead, they’re focused on people, families, young people, old people, black, brown and white people. Just people. Living their lives. And, of course, wearing funny clothes.
Conzo explains what people who weren’t there don’t understand about the Bronx during those days:
“You can’t miss anything you’ve never had,” Conzo says about life in the Bronx. “I didn’t miss backyards, the private schools and white picket fences ‘cause I never had that. But I had my St. Mary’s Park, People’s Park, the abandoned buildings to run and play in, Johnny on the Pony, the pumps, and the multiple fires to entertain me.”
Much kudos to the nonprofit Bronx Documentary Center for providing the perfect space for the Seis, who had been nosing around for the right gallery space for a couple of years.
Founded by award-winning war photographer Michael Kamber, the center opened its doors in 2011 with a mission “to create an engaging environment for local and international photojournalists, artists, filmmakers, critics and educators committed to innovative methods of non-fiction storytelling.”
They are doing it by just being there. And by showing off the borough’s established talent who are telling the Bronx story through their own eyes, they are helping to inspire the next generation of success stories.
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