Will Steacy | Michael Mazzeo Gallery | more danger
Ups to tough guy Will Steacy. The show at Michael Mazzeo looks great. A bit steamy in there for the opening but that’s what happens when you corral such beautiful people together. Seriously - dude is pretty fly.
Though I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I feel like this series “These mean streets” is like a PowerPoint presentation my parents might have shown me before I moved to the Bedstuy. If you look at, or present, any neighborhood (or anything for that matter) through the gaze of danger and fear than that is what you will see. Though I congratulate Will on not getting his camera yanked I don’t agree with the techniques being used here to make blanket statements on impoverished urban communities. But If this series (or way of working) must go on I challenge this, make these pictures at like 11:30pm, during high school summer break, in the Marcy Projects and show me what there is to be afraid of.
