Brooklyn revisited

In the summer of 2024 I revisited Crown Heights, Brooklyn and some bordering neighborhoods with the aim of exploring how they had changed and remained unchanged since I left in January 2016. Before my departure I had called these neighborhoods home for twelve years, the entirety of my life in NYC. This was my first return to these vibrant and colorful streets since that strangely warm winter morning my family and I departed for a new life across the country. For five days I walked old and familiar blocks in Crown Heights and also unfamiliar streets in Flatbush, Sunset Park, and Brooklyn Chinatown. I wandered Prospect Park where birthdays, Juneteenth, and the Muslim holiday Eid-Al-Adha were celebrated. These pictures are a sequenced selection of images I created during five days of walking the streets with an open and curious mind to what I might discover. Thank you to Rebecca Norris-Webb and Alex Webb for helping me discover my photographic vision, edit and sequence this body of work. Their NYC photography workshop is exceptional and their love and dedication for the medium inspires. A special thanks to my host for her gracious hospitality and recommending where my wanderings might begin. And to my wife for her continued support of my photographic journey.