All posts tagged: Photos of BSA 2020

Photos of 2020: #2 : White Male Running Down the Street

Photos of 2020: #2 : White Male Running Down the Street

December 30, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

The stunning simplicity of this billboard reverberated for many privileged white people who read it.

Photo © Jaime Rojo

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Photos of 2020: #3 : Brooklyn’s Own RBG

Photos of 2020: #3 : Brooklyn’s Own RBG

December 29, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

Brooklyn’s own Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death on September 18, 2020. Her passing this year spawned many a tribute on the street, including this doorway – something she opened for countless people during her career.

Reisha Perlmutter’s portrait of RBG. Photo ©Jaime Rojo
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Photos of 2020: #4 : The Great Dread

Photos of 2020: #4 : The Great Dread

December 28, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

Some of the richest exchanges you will have are with New York’s least-rich people. When Jaime spoke with this gentleman one day, time melted away.

Photo © Jaime Rojo

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Photos of 2020: #5 : Tones Gets Canned

Photos of 2020: #5 : Tones Gets Canned

December 27, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

Tones captures the culture and the comedic part of storytelling that is intrinsically tied to the graffiti game. This piece is a master from many perspectives.

Tones ©Jaime Rojo
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Photos of 2020: #6 : Brooklyn Barber and the Bridge

Photos of 2020: #6 : Brooklyn Barber and the Bridge

December 26, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

When the going gets tough – take it out to the streets. We spotted this hairdresser doing business under the Williamsburg Bridge this summer. We hope the business was good.

Photo © Jaime Rojo
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Photos of 2020: #9 : Sister, Can You Spare a Face Mask?

Photos of 2020: #9 : Sister, Can You Spare a Face Mask?

December 22, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

New York street artist Jilly Ballistic has been borrowing black and white photos from an earlier era of economic depression to paste on the streets for half a dozen years or so. The effect is nostalgic and sometimes puzzling, as they are often evocative of WWII era air raids and nuclear attacks.

In a year where the world population has become frightened of airborne contagion and the very topic of protective face masks has taken on politically charged emotions, Jilly’s modest dressmakers and librarians engulfed with rubber/glass masks and elephantine hoses are our chums. We now imagine a sort of kinship with these people from another time – a reassuring familiarity across the decades.

Sister, can you spare a face mask? Jilly Ballistic, photo ©Jaime Rojo
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Photos of 2020: #10 : “Do You Understand Yet?”

Photos of 2020: #10 : “Do You Understand Yet?”

December 21, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

In the midst of country-wide demonstrations for racial equity and against historic and systemic police brutality, especially as it pertains to black and brown people, a massive move to the streets New York by street artists was undeniable..

“The shot of the worker sitting taking a moment’s rest with the Colin Kaepernick poster behind him – I had taken my first round of shots around SOHO and began taking photos of the many boarded up store fronts that had “prepared” for anticipated violence and looting during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches.

Nick C. Kirk, “Do You Understand Yet?”, photo ©Jaime Rojo
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Photos of 2020: #11 : Biden Dances Across the Graffiti Tags

Photos of 2020: #11 : Biden Dances Across the Graffiti Tags

December 20, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

Looking like Fred Astaire melding tap, ballroom and ballet across the bubble tags on New York walls, here’s the next President of the United States.

Photo ©Jaime Rojo
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Photos of 2020 : #13 : John Robert Lewis in Black and White

Photos of 2020 : #13 : John Robert Lewis in Black and White

December 18, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

John Robert Lewis was an American statesman and civil rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for more than thirty years. When he died in July many tributes arose from the streets to honor him and his life of service to justice and equality.

David F. Barthold, photo ©Jaime Rojo

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Photos of BSA 2020 : #14 : Go Out, Breathe

Photos of BSA 2020 : #14 : Go Out, Breathe

December 17, 2020
Happy Holidays to all BSA readers, your family and dear ones. We’re counting down some of our favorite photos to appear on BSA in 2020 taken by our editor of photography, Jaime Rojo. We wish each person the very best as we look forward to a new year together with you.

Who would have guessed the prophetic quality of this mural we discovered in Berlin in February when we were preparing our upcoming exhibition at Urban Nation. We were perplexed at the time and wondered what it augured for the new year.

“Go out, breathe, listen and trust your gut in 2020.”

The same applies for 2021.

Berlin, photo ©Jaime Rojo
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