Ricky Flores’s 1980s Photos of the South Bronx

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A South Bronx Family Album

For Ricky Flores, one of the photographers in a group exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center, chronicling his South Bronx neighborhood transformed him from a hobbyist into an obsessive.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/raw-and-real-inside-the-south-bronx/

When Ricky Flores started taking pictures as a high school senior in 1980, he did what a lot of young photographers did: he photographed his friends, family and neighbors. He captured giddy, even goofy moments, of dancers in the park, teenagers on stoops and costumed children on Halloween.

In the South Bronx.