Thursday, 16 September 2021

Steven Bamberg / Urban Nomads : Photographs



Photo documentary on the Ching-a-Ling MC Nomads, a primarily Puerto Rican street gang in Belmont, Bronx. Bamberg himself is a sort of inside outsider, being a former gang member himself from Brooklyn who studied photography and fine art. This was his first and I think only show and offers a real inside view of a much mid-represented and under documented world which seems to have become part of NYC folklore. With two texts which are also excellent.