In the mid-seventies, the Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz—the recipient of the 2022 Gordon
Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize—borrowed his mother’s camera to record the camaraderie and the
style of his high-school friends. He has continued to aim his compassionate lens on Black life throughout
New York City ever since, capturing such scenes as “Best Friends, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1982” (above). On
April 6, the Bronx Museum opens “Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street,” a survey of his legendary career.
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