'99 Snapshots
The next is from lensman Michael Berman:
’99 Snapshots is a documentary projection nigh people I met too photographed inwards 1999. I met them on sidewalks too inwards places of concern inwards each of Manhattan’s many neighborhoods. I am instantly re-photographing too interviewing equally many of the 300+ master copy people equally I tin find, seeking details nigh who they were inwards ’99, who they are now, too their thoughts on multiple topics including New York but also big ones similar life too the passage of time. Because I encountered the people inwards 1999 randomly, the grouping equally a whole reflects demographic diversity. I aim to plough this into a majority too a documentary film.
Marian too Lindsay, Harlem
I’m able to uncovering many people on my own, using social media too the telephone majority (I receive got their 1999 names). But about people I can’t find, therefore I post “ISOs” to the project’s Instagram feed, alongside hopes that people mightiness assist out.
Sometimes I uncovering out that a individual has died. If possible, I desire to include them anyway. So I attempt to uncovering out nigh them past times speaking alongside people who knew them. I experience it's of import to pay homage to who they were.
Here are a few examples from the projection of people who I receive got found. There are to a greater extent than on the Instagram feed.
Nina, existent estate broker. That mightiness endure the biz she’s in, but she has existent problems alongside how much existent estate costs receive got skyrocketed. She’s read “Vanishing New York." She acknowledges that the toll of an story inwards New York has increased besides much for many people. When asked what could endure done nigh this, she said: “Oh, god. I wishing I knew. I don’t know if there’s an respond really. It used to endure that metropolis planning was a big thing. But instantly it’s all existence done behind unopen doors. The net turn a profit motive is only besides strong, too it seems to outweigh everything.”
Abdul, nutrient cart operator on lower Broadway. When I photographed him inwards ’99 he was i of solely two pocket-sized carts on the northern border of what is instantly Zuccotti Park (then it was called Liberty Plaza Park). Now he’s across Broadway too he’s i of nigh vii carts there. I asked him when it expanded to to a greater extent than nutrient carts at that location too he said shortly after 9/11, because tourists started coming too the expanse got a lot busier. He told me that several years agone he cruel too injured his foot. Now he has a musculus that doesn’t operate properly. He has wellness insurance but cannot receive got fourth dimension off for surgical physical care for because recovery would endure half dozen months, too that would endure fourth dimension without income. He is married alongside iv children.
Here's Jon, an advertising exec on the creative side, waiting to grab his educate from Grand Central inwards 1999. Jon instantly plant from domicile inwards Connecticut too has his ain pocket-sized agency.
James, inwards 1999, worked at the Empire Diner. In 2018, he’s living inwards Park Slope, making paintings too working equally a personal assistant.
Below is a photograph of someone who passed away several years ago. When I photographed him inwards ’99, he said his cry was Michael Peterson, but I believe he afterwards went equally Michelle Rostelli. Michelle was a regular fixture on the Lower East Side, too lived on Rivington Street. She loved making the rounds of the local businesses there. She helped herself to java too cookies at Sugar Sweet Sunshine, too they never allow her pay. They receive got a memorial sign inwards her laurels on the wall when you lot walk in.
If anyone who reads this knew Michelle/Michael good plenty to utter nigh the individual she was, delight contact me to practice an interview at michaelberman33@gmail.com. (Note: I prefer on-camera, too volition inquire you lot to sign a release.) I’m also told that at that spot may receive got been a cinema nigh her. If anyone knows who the filmmaker is, or how to locate the film, I’d dear to uncovering out.
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’99 Snapshots is a documentary projection nigh people I met too photographed inwards 1999. I met them on sidewalks too inwards places of concern inwards each of Manhattan’s many neighborhoods. I am instantly re-photographing too interviewing equally many of the 300+ master copy people equally I tin find, seeking details nigh who they were inwards ’99, who they are now, too their thoughts on multiple topics including New York but also big ones similar life too the passage of time. Because I encountered the people inwards 1999 randomly, the grouping equally a whole reflects demographic diversity. I aim to plough this into a majority too a documentary film.
Marian too Lindsay, Harlem
I’m able to uncovering many people on my own, using social media too the telephone majority (I receive got their 1999 names). But about people I can’t find, therefore I post “ISOs” to the project’s Instagram feed, alongside hopes that people mightiness assist out.
Sometimes I uncovering out that a individual has died. If possible, I desire to include them anyway. So I attempt to uncovering out nigh them past times speaking alongside people who knew them. I experience it's of import to pay homage to who they were.
Here are a few examples from the projection of people who I receive got found. There are to a greater extent than on the Instagram feed.
Nina, existent estate broker. That mightiness endure the biz she’s in, but she has existent problems alongside how much existent estate costs receive got skyrocketed. She’s read “Vanishing New York." She acknowledges that the toll of an story inwards New York has increased besides much for many people. When asked what could endure done nigh this, she said: “Oh, god. I wishing I knew. I don’t know if there’s an respond really. It used to endure that metropolis planning was a big thing. But instantly it’s all existence done behind unopen doors. The net turn a profit motive is only besides strong, too it seems to outweigh everything.”
Abdul, nutrient cart operator on lower Broadway. When I photographed him inwards ’99 he was i of solely two pocket-sized carts on the northern border of what is instantly Zuccotti Park (then it was called Liberty Plaza Park). Now he’s across Broadway too he’s i of nigh vii carts there. I asked him when it expanded to to a greater extent than nutrient carts at that location too he said shortly after 9/11, because tourists started coming too the expanse got a lot busier. He told me that several years agone he cruel too injured his foot. Now he has a musculus that doesn’t operate properly. He has wellness insurance but cannot receive got fourth dimension off for surgical physical care for because recovery would endure half dozen months, too that would endure fourth dimension without income. He is married alongside iv children.
Here's Jon, an advertising exec on the creative side, waiting to grab his educate from Grand Central inwards 1999. Jon instantly plant from domicile inwards Connecticut too has his ain pocket-sized agency.
James, inwards 1999, worked at the Empire Diner. In 2018, he’s living inwards Park Slope, making paintings too working equally a personal assistant.
Below is a photograph of someone who passed away several years ago. When I photographed him inwards ’99, he said his cry was Michael Peterson, but I believe he afterwards went equally Michelle Rostelli. Michelle was a regular fixture on the Lower East Side, too lived on Rivington Street. She loved making the rounds of the local businesses there. She helped herself to java too cookies at Sugar Sweet Sunshine, too they never allow her pay. They receive got a memorial sign inwards her laurels on the wall when you lot walk in.
If anyone who reads this knew Michelle/Michael good plenty to utter nigh the individual she was, delight contact me to practice an interview at michaelberman33@gmail.com. (Note: I prefer on-camera, too volition inquire you lot to sign a release.) I’m also told that at that spot may receive got been a cinema nigh her. If anyone knows who the filmmaker is, or how to locate the film, I’d dear to uncovering out.
See to a greater extent than on Vimeo
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