A Photographer’s Search for the Magic in Everyday Life – The New York Times

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A Photographer’s Search for the Magic in Everyday Life

Shawn Walker, a founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, documented the lives of regular people and liberated his subjects from stereotypes and invisibility.

via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/a-photographers-search-for-the-magic-in-everyday-life/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

As a young man growing up in Harlem, Shawn Walker was shaped not just by what he saw at museums, but also what he heard in clubs. “I grew up as a jazz kid,” Mr. Walker, 77, said. “I heard all the avant-garde players, major influences like John Coltrane and Lee Morgan… Jazz takes something ordinary and changes it. Jazz was the background music to my life.”