Andy Velazquez

One Tough Neighborhood, Two Friends, and Thousands of Photos

We’ve seen the rough, urban neighborhood documented thousands of times by photojournalists dating all the way back to Jacob Riis in the 1800s. Over and over again, the images appear the same: children playing in alleys, kids standing on street corners, poverty, rubble, and graffiti. But urban blight is more than its set pieces. Each […]