Photographer Captures Tough Streets of Marrickville, Sydney for Over 45 Years

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Photographer Captures Tough Streets of Marrickville, Sydney for Over 45 Years

I could not write a better summation of Austrailian photographer Emmanuel Angelicas’ work than the one he gave me. And he should know—since the age of seven, Angelicas has been photographing his neighborhood, an outlying section of Sydney, Austrailia call

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/08/photographer-captures-tough-streets-of-marrickville-sydney-for-over-45-years/

My parents moved to Marrickville when I was four years old, and my father gave me my first camera, a plastic Diana for my seventh birthday. It was then that I made friends with the camera and photography. Marrickville is my home. I love it here. Every time I go out with my camera in Marrickville I return with compelling outcomes. It is is a real place with real people. Photography has this power to render things sometimes so real that they seem unreal.
—Emmanuel Angelicas