Image from Juliana Beasley's series Rockaways

Fall 2006 Hot Shot, Juliana Beasley, has an interview up over on the NYMPHOTO Blog. I recently wrote about Juliana's feature on Lens Culture earlier this month. Juliana's spare and touching photographs document white poverty in New York City.

From Juliana's statement:

I visit the Rockaway Park community, the site of my project, on a regularly basis and have been doing so for the past four years. During that time I have developed close personal ties within the community.

While it is less than twenty miles from Manhattan, Rockaway Park is another country. It is a place that many financially-strapped mental hospitals and nursing homes have for years used as a dumping ground for some of their indigent patients. This famed Irishtown is the last remnant of hope for many elderly and low income families living in fear of homelessness.

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