Eric Weeks

Chair | Photography & Video Department
Pennsylvania College Of Art &Amp; Design
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Location: New York City and Lancaster, PA
Nationality: American
Biography: Eric Weeks is an artist using photography and video, a curator, and Chair of the Photography & Video Department at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design in Lancaster, PA. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are in... MORE
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hamilton park
Copyright Eric Weeks 2024
Updated Feb 2017
Location Hamilton Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
Topics America, Black and White, Children, Community, Documentary, Family, Fine Art, Friends + Family, Happiness, Photography, Portraiture, Relationships, Street, Teens, Youth
I made these photographs in 1985, in the now historic neighborhood of Hamilton Park, Jersey City, New Jersey. While searching for a negative recently, I stumbled upon this long forgotten series. As I pulled out my contact sheets and old work prints, I was fascinated by how this body of images, made very early in my career, greatly inform the photographs I make today. The form of the photographs, the matter-of-fact way things are described, the willingness of the subjects to be photographed, and the care in which they present themselves all very much share the same sensibility with my current work. I was surprised how these photographs, made over three decades ago, still feel contemporary to me. The fashion styles have changed, the neighborhood has been gentrified, the young children are now adults, but these pictures remain an important testament to what was and what still is.
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