Tuki Caracas
There is a new genre of break dance and music in Venezuela – it is called Tuki. One day Marianna drove us to Petare a huge barrio clustered on a hill in the Palo Verde district. Across the street at...
View ArticleCrash on Houston St
Crash was painting this beautiful mural featuring Popeye on Houston and Bowery in New York City today. And there was legendary photographer Martha Cooper signing her book, being photographed by more...
View ArticleJocks & Nerds Milo Johnson
My shot of Milo Johnson is on the cover of the latest Jocks & Nerds magazine. First off I happen to think Jocks & Nerds is the best magazine covering style, music, attitude, culture out there...
View ArticleSalt-N-Pepa Burton Lifebeat
Burton Snowboards has a new collaboration with hip-hop artists Salt-N-Pepa introducing a special-edition 2014 Burton Lip-Stick board available to the public next fall. The board was developed with...
View ArticleLL Cool J
LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James) is releasing a new album ‘Authentic’ at the end of this month. I took his first promo photograph (below) back in 1985. The then seventeen year old LL Cool J seemed...
View ArticleICP class this summer
I will be teaching my ‘Youth Culture’ Portrait & Documentary Photography’ summer class again at ICP in July. Classes will be on Wednesday afternoons July 10 through August 7. This year I taught a...
View ArticlePunk, NY Magazine, the Met
The punk show ‘Chaos to Couture’ at the Metropolitan Museum inspired New York Magazine to interview me about my experiences back in the seventies London punk days. Punk brought an anti-establishment...
View ArticleHassan Hajjaj London
I visited artist Hassan Hajjaj at his store in East London (above : Hassan (R) with his ‘bruvva’(L). Born in Morocco he moved to London in 1975, he seems to know everyone, the store is buzzing with...
View ArticleAdam Yauch Park
Adam Yauch Park is a peaceful oasis in Brooklyn under a highway on-ramp, kids play basketball and ride their scooters in the sunshine. Adam Yauch aka MCA, grew up here, playing in this playground and...
View ArticleA day with Niko and crew
Last thursday Niko’s video crew (below) followed me taking photographs on the streets of New York. We met a bunch of stylin’ teens on Houston St (above) and a guy with the biggest boom box on 125th...
View ArticleDoin’ it in the Park
Walking home this afternoon, camera in hand looking for locations for next week’s photo shoot, New York City is sizzling 90F – stop to watch a street ball pick up game happening on Bowery and Houston...
View ArticleEl Barrio Harlem Puerto Rican Day
Visiting a friend on Saturday in Harlem – stepped out of the subway on 116th Street into a street party for El Barrio on 3rd Avenue. People are partying, music blaring, street parade in full swing....
View ArticleBen Sherman
In London to promote the Roger Daltrey Teen Cancer Trust T shirts that Ben Sherman made with my photographs of youth culture from back in the Brit punk days. Met the Islington Twins, featured on one...
View ArticleRoberto Mata Taller Fotografia ‘Youth Culture’ class
Earlier this year I travelled to Caracas with Stella Kramer (Pullitzer Prize winning editor and creative consultant) to teach a workshop ‘ Youth Culture First the Photographs then the Editing’ at the...
View Article5 Pointz
5 Pointz is old school New York – a living changing graffiti museum in Long Island City. Every spare spaces, walls, street lights, doors, dumpsters is covered by art made by legends of the graff world....
View ArticleDarlene Love – 20 Feet From Stardom
In 1985, working for the Daily News in New York City, I was sent to photograph rehearsals for the musical ‘Leader of the Pack’ starring Darlene Love (above centre), Ellie Greenwich and Annie Golden...
View ArticleShirt King Phade
Ed, aka Shirt King Phade came round to give me his book today. He had some jackets he had painted for a friend’s daughter in his bag. Ed started as a graffiti artist and because of his ‘love of the...
View ArticleJamel Shabazz & Charlie Ahearn
Charlie Ahearn’s new documentary about Jamel Shabazz is showing at BAM on August 1st and 2nd The documentary took 10 years to make, it was a a test of wills, a magnificent struggle between the two...
View ArticleAfrika Bambaataa & Cornell’s Hip Hop archive
I just came back from the seeing a great Hip Hop exhibition at Cornell University in Ithaca. The Cornell University Library has the largest collection on Hip Hop culture in the world. Right now...
View ArticleOut West
Watching ‘Breaking Bad’ reminds me of road trips out West, driving in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas. Deserted roads, neon signs, abandoned gas stations, motels, old cafes,reflections of life...
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