I remembered a few months back I got an invitation to attend this book launch for a guy who was the same age as me. I thought it sounded pretty awesome and had every intention of going but - life got in the way. Fast forward two months and I'm standing in my favourite gallery in the Lower East Side, The Hole. The girl in the shop starts asking me about what I do, I tell her, she then reaches behind me and pulls out a book, "You'll like this. He's a young guy and he...". Before she finished I started screaming like an excited child who had just eaten a truck load of cotton candy and morphed into the incredible hulk. In the most polite way I snatched the book from her hands and said, "I'll buy it".
What's so exciting about this book you ask? Well it's by a guy called Sean Vegezzi. He's born and raised in New York, and has an exceptionally good eye for documentary photography. Since he's been able to hold a camera he's documented he and his friends growing up in the city. The focus for the book is on teenage adolescence and exploring places in New York that are no longer accessible to the public - namely the forgotten subway stops. This may not seem like anything new, but if you consider the guys age (22) and the quality of his photographs, along with the very contemporary design and layout of the book then it's easy to see why this is some next level biz-ness. I look at this book and only hope to make something that comes mildly close. It's exceptional. End of.
Also if you become a little bit obsessed like I am then check out this interview he did with MoMA.
Sean's website
Morgs
