Jamel Shabazz – Faces And Places 1980-2023

The fifth pillar of hip-hop is photography. Jamel Shabazz has been documenting the scene and the city in which it once emerged for over four decades and thus almost from the very beginning. »Faces and Places 1980-2023« is essentially an exhibition catalogue by the photographer, who shot to fame at the age of 21 with the iconic image »A Time of Innocence,« and is less specific than his book »Back in the Days,« which focuses explicitly on hip-hop culture, but also captures the life around it. That’s only logical, since the supporting foundation of the culture’s pillars remains New York fucking City.