Joseph Rodriguez: Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the ‘80s – Feature Shoot

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Joseph Rodriguez: Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the ‘80s – Feature Shoot

Skeely Street Game, Spanish Harlem, New York, 1987. Courtesy Galerie Bene Taschen. Saturday Night Cards, Rodriguez Family Spanish Harlem, New York, 1987. In the wake of World War I, Puerto…

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Born and raised in Brooklyn, Puerto Rican-American photographer Joseph Rodriguez became familiar Spanish Harlem as a child, when he traveled uptown to visit his uncle who had a candy shop in El Barrio. Like many of his generation, he fell victim to the heroin epidemic and ended up incarcerated on Rikers Island for drug possession during the early 1970s.