Larry Racioppo’s Photos of Good Friday Processions in Brooklyn

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In the Spirit and on the Street

Brooklyn — the Borough of Churches — is where Larry Racioppo has been photographing Good Friday processions and pageants since the 1970s.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/four-crucifixions-in-brooklyn/

Unlike some traditional documentary essays about Holy Week in Spain or Guatemala, his images show an intimacy with both the people and the city. It has been a running concern in his street photography, which includes a series on memorial walls and religious spaces in daily neighborhood life.