Kia Carbone
People used to tell me I should leave the city and live
somewhere else for a while, and I would nod my head in
agreement but I honestly never really wanted to leave
Brooklyn. Correction: I never wanted to leave the
Brooklyn that I was born in, the neighborhood that I
grew up in. Unfortunately, that Brooklyn no longer exists
and the city I loved so much has actually left me.
Photography was not something that I grew up loving
and knowing I wanted to pursue. Aside from wasting
rolls of film on my stuffed animals or blurry ?selfies?, I
really didn?t think photography was that interesting. It
was only after I graduated from art school - after
studying any major that didn?t have to do with art - I
began to actually look around and notice that the
bustling, crazy, gray city of mine was actually gorgeous
at sunset. I started to notice during my runs over the
bridges that even on rainy days, the skyline was always
majestic. I even started to understand why everyone
was always traveling from all over the world to come and
see this city that I wanted to keep all to myself, and that
realization was around the same time that gentrification
reared its ugly head.
Each of these scenes are no longer accessible -
buildings have either been knocked down, parks built
over abandoned waterfronts, bridges no longer
accessible, rooftops no longer accessible, empty
warehouses made into private residences, and luxury
condominiums have soared into the sky overnight,
blocking views that we used to have. The photos in this
collection are all scenes from a city that will always be a
part of me, even if that city has transformed into a
foreign world.
Kia Carbone's AutoGallery exhibit
Kia Carbone's website