Everyday People / Documentary photography

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Expression. Gesture. Everyday life.

Street scenes, cultural gatherings and moments of connection. Explore a photographic record of people moving through their communities.

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Photography by Tyrone “Zire” McCants
Zire Photography and Graphics

BW-03 Do the Right Thing anniversary gathering · Brooklyn

The photographic record

Life, in the frame.

Follow a gesture, a gathering or a quiet moment at work. Open any photograph to see the full-size image.

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A woman dancing among festivalgoers at the BAM street fair in Brooklyn — BW-12 Dance and community · BAM street fair, Brooklyn

Community gathering at the International Afrikan Arts Festival in Brooklyn — BW-18 International Afrikan Arts Festival · Brooklyn, 2010

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 10 — BW-10 Everyday People · Black & White

Postal worker sorting mail in Flatbush, Brooklyn — BW-07 Postal worker · Flatbush, Brooklyn, 2008

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 16 — BW-16 Everyday People · Black & White

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 14 — BW-14 Everyday People · Black & White

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 19 — BW-19 Everyday People · Black & White

Crowd walking outside Brooklyn Borough Hall during the International Day of Friendship — BW-24 International Day of Friendship · Brooklyn

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 04 — BW-04 Everyday People · Black & White

Mott Hall IV students and faculty applauding at a school garden ribbon-cutting — BW-27 School garden celebration · Mott Hall IV, Brooklyn

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 06 — BW-06 Everyday People · Black & White

Musicians playing drums with a dancer at the NABB Conference in Harlem — BW-21 Drumming and movement · Harlem, 2011

Cook tending a smoking barrel grill at Arizona Jerk Fest in Phoenix — BW-23 Arizona Jerk Fest · Phoenix

Participant wearing a headdress at an outdoor cultural gathering — BW-22 Cultural gathering · Everyday People

Black and white photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 08 — BW-08 Everyday People · Black & White

Black and white documentary photograph from the Everyday People archive, image 09 — BW-09 Everyday People · Black & White

Two women at the International Day of Friendship outside Brooklyn Borough Hall — BW-25 International Day of Friendship · Brooklyn

People / Culture / Memory

The everyday deserves a record.

A gathering ends. A neighborhood changes. A gesture passes in a fraction of a second.

Photographs give those moments somewhere to remain. Seen together, they reveal how people work, celebrate and make a place their own.

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