Sunset Park Stills: Attention Young Photographers! Your Assignment:

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Attention Young Photographers! Your Assignment:

"In February, NPR's Backseat Book Club is reading Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai. It's about a boy named Fadi, who finds his voice — and his lost little sister — through photography. Since the book is all about places, people and photos, we'd like to see the things YOU love.
Maybe it's a person — a sibling, a grandparent or a teacher. Or maybe it's your favorite spot — the garden outside your window, your secret hiding nook. What's important to you? Submit photos here!
If you're a kid and you're reading this, share your photos. And if you're an adult and know an aspiring photographer, share this assignment.
We may feature some of your pictures on our website."

The above passage is written on NPR's site. I will also post pictures here if get them on the SsPK Flickr pool and call it "NPR assignment".

What is Sunset Park Stills?

Sunset Park Stills is a photo blog. Mainly photographs of landmarks or happenings in the area. On occasion, if there is some extra information that I did not know or perhaps not widely known, I'll add it in.

Being a photographer myself, I naturally looked for images of the area in which I reside. Finding very few, I went on a personal photo journey and shot just about everything I saw in Sunset Park.

The neighborhood is harmoniously divided between eastern and western cultures. What I have found is that this part of Brooklyn, is fundamentally the same as any other town in the USA. We've got churches, parks, dancers, hipsters, artists, skaters, writers, and entrepreneurs. All of us working class trying to make our way in the world.

Hopefully, you have enjoyed looking at this micro neighborhood though my (and my neighbor's) eyes. Maybe it's just a place to some, for others like myself, it's a live documentation of Living the American Dream.