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  • Toy plane and old woman eating an ice cream.
    Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park.


    New York - USA - 29/05/06

  • Girls drinking a soda, and platic glove.
    Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park.


    New York - USA - 28/05/06

  • Malta bottle, and manicured hand.
    Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park.


    New York - USA - 28/05/06

  • Nathan's fork, and Nathan's client, born a bitch.
    Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park.


    New York - USA - 28/05/06

  • Missile breast and dented beer can


    New York - USA - 29/05/06

  • Love and watermelon.
    Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park.


    New York - USA - 29/05/06

  • Bills wrapper and couple by the fence.
    Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park.


    New York - USA - 30/05/06

  • Boar's head jar, and stuffed bulldog.


    New York - USA - 27/05/07

  • Platic links and hot dog eating policeman.


    New York - USA - 28/05/07

  • Shells, breast and arm pit.


    New York - USA - 28/05/07

  • Chicken leg and chicks.


    New York - USA - 28/05/07

  • Two flowers.


    New York - USA - 28/05/07

  • Torture tool.


    New York - USA - 30/08/08

  • Two red diamonds.


    New York - USA - 31/08/08

  • Fish and wrinkled skin.


    New York - USA - 31/08/08

  • Plastic glass and love for Patrice.


    New York - USA - 31/08/08

  • French fries, baby and grandmother


    New York - USA - 01/09/08

  • Fork contraption, and arm with veins.


    New York - USA - 01/09/08

Story

This project was born as a reaction to the famous picture of the Coney Island beach shot by Weegee in 1940, which shows an endless crowd on the beach, most of which is facing the photographer, some are even waving. I was interested in going into the crowd and isolating the individuals that compose this mass, to look closely at the atoms which, put together, create the matter.

In order to enter what is usually a sphere of privacy i "shot from the hip" (in actuality, more often from my camera resting on my crossed arms), and was thus able to be so very close to the people in the images, without them reacting to the photographic act of taking a camera to my eye.

Feeling that this gallery of portraits told only half the story i asked my friend and photographer Johnny Miller, if he might have an idea of how he could document this place in his own style. We ended up agreeing on the idea of the "discarded object", which he found on the ground, in the sand or in trash cans and later photographed in his studio.

Is it possible to show a place without representing its architecture, its physical appearance? This project is a attempt to do so: show Coney Island, not through what it looks like, but through the people that make it what it is, and their consumption habits.
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