Sunset at the Supermarket

Before university, I was surrounded by a sea of similar faces, gestures, mannerisms, and people. I was raised in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. The rooms were loud, the people were powerful and the sun was shining...in the summer at least. Representations of the neighborhoods I was raised in have always been a constant source of tension for me. There are too few opportunities for people of diverse backgrounds to tell their own stories -- so stereotypes, some based on truth, but many egregiously exaggerated, are able to persist and proliferate. With this project, I hope to re-examine narratives buried deep within the American urban culture. Sunset at the Supermarket is a collection of portraits intimately depicting youths of New York City. The work aims to transcend boundaries and simply be a document of time and an almost eternal sunlight.