The B-R-O-O-K-L-Y-N--come again?

all images © James Brandon King

I'm in love with James Brandon King's photos. His website is full of the light-drenched warehouses of DUMBO; the dreamy, subdued colors of the tenements and brownstones in his Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill neighborhood; and the loose, easy gestures of his friends and family. The genuine warmth and tenderness in King's photos makes them so compelling. I see a million different narratives within them and I want to know where they all lead.

It's fairly easy to learn how to shoot a technically proficient image. What's much more difficult to do and what most photographers strive for (I hope anyway), is to use your camera to give shape and substance to the swirl of emotions, thoughts and impulses in your mind and heart; all the things that make you who and what you are. King does a fine job at both. He's a great technician and an emotional, intuitive shooter. I'm glad I found his site, which happened quite by accident.

Of Interest: (Spread-love-it's-the-Brooklyn-way edition)

Brooklyn Go Hard: Jay-Z+ Santogold+ Kanye West. This one grew on me;
it took me a while to get past Jay's Jafakin' patois.


Brooklyn Go Hard: Mos Def (Live)
Mos Def is coming out with a new album, The Ecstatic, this summer and not a moment too soon. Can't believe it's been 10 years since Black on Both Sides came out; that makes
me feel old.

Brooklyn's New Culinary Movement via the NY Times. Great article, I just wish they
had featured some people of color. They couldn't find any involved in a burgeoning culinary arts scene in Brooklyn?

Me, Myself, An Eye: Hilarious, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining musings of a Brooklynite by way of D.C. by way of Chicago.