For a decade the government turned its back as the Bronx burned. Photographer Ricky Flores captured his home city’s enduring spirit as its residents found hope in a new art movement – hip hop Check […]
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Hip Hop Evolution
Hip Hop Evolution, a documentary, featured multiple images of mine during the dawning of Hip Hop in the South Bronx. It is a 4 part available on Netflix and HBO. Check out the trailer below.
Ricky Flores : Fight the Power
RICKY FLORES: FIGHT THE POWER Miss Rosen for NYC, 1981 Born to Puerto Rican parents in New York in 1961, Ricky Flores grew up in the Tremont and Longwood sections of the Bronx. In 1980, […]
South Bronx Family Album
Cuadritos de Ayer / Cuadritos Perverso is a provocative look at how photography is used to fetishize a marginalize culture in general and that of the South Bronx in particular. It is an attempt to […]
Ricky Flores’s 1980s Photos of the South Bronx – NYTimes.com
James Estrin, staff photographer for the New York Times and co-editor of the New York Times Lens Blog interviewed me in advance of the Seis Del Sur exhibition opening at the Bronx Documentary Center .