Shooting a wedding this week. Can’t say where yet, but it should be a fun trip. Stay tuned :) #vscocam #Nikon #Gear #Travel #JMP

Shooting a wedding this week. Can’t say where yet, but it should be a fun trip. Stay tuned :) #vscocam #Nikon #Gear #Travel #JMP

Re-gram courtesy of @furmanfoto today on set with @thenycosmos. Soccer and photography? Pretty solid day! #NYCosmos #Soccer #Assistinglife #NY

Re-gram courtesy of @furmanfoto today on set with @thenycosmos. Soccer and photography? Pretty solid day! #NYCosmos #Soccer #Assistinglife #NY

soulbrotherv2:

The Woman in a Jim Crow Photo
By MAURICE BERGER

When Joanne Wilson stepped out to enjoy a balmy summer afternoon with her niece in 1956, she stepped into history. The two stood in front of a movie theater in downtown Mobile, Ala., dressed in their Sunday best. But the neon sign that loomed overhead — “Colored Entrance” — cast a despairing shadow.

“I wasn’t going in,” Mrs. Wilson recalled. “I didn’t want to take my niece through the back entrance. She smelled popcorn and wanted some. All I could think was where I could go to get her popcorn.”

That moment was captured by Gordon Parks, who was working on a Life photo essay that documented everyday life among an extended African-American family in the rural South. Although it was not among the final selections published in September 1956 as “The Restraints: Open and Hidden,” the photograph of Mrs. Wilson and her niece, Shirley Diane Kirksey, is among the most compelling of the project.

We usually associate civil rights photography with dramatic scenes of historic events. But this image helps us to understand that the battle for racial equality and justice was waged not just through epic demonstrations, speeches and conflagrations, but also through the quiet actions of individuals.

More than half a century later, the Gordon Parks Foundation honored Mrs. Wilson with a gift of that color print during its celebrity-filled annual awards dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.  [Continue reading at the New York Times.]

Incredible

(via deshaunwright)

Rooftop view of Williamsburg into Manhattan during my shoot with Jeanette last week.  ©Joe Martinez Photography

Rooftop view of Williamsburg into Manhattan during my shoot with Jeanette last week. 

©Joe Martinez Photography

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and re-tell that story over and over again in a visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core, the story remains the same. It’s like the defining story of who you are.

Gregory Crewdson from Brief Encounters 

(Now streaming on Netflix!)

I wasn’t the official photographer for Blake & Valerie’s wedding, but I managed to capture a few images during the rehearsal and post-wedding walk back to the hotel. 

Blake and Valerie have been two of the biggest supporters of my work and my move to NYC.  It’s amazing to have friends with so much faith in me.  Congrats to the both of them!