North Shore It is a part of New York City that is seldom seen, but the North Shore of Staten Island is a microcosm of contemporary life in the United States. In this age of isolationism, it is also a borderland – a place where the culture wars of our decade play out in the everyday lives of residents.
At a time when politics seeks to polarize and distort, this project offers a counternarrative.
North Shore, which showed at the Alice Austen House Museum in the fall of 2017, documents a community of Staten Island as a microcosm of contemporary life in the United States. It is an examination of the borderlands where the culture wars of our decade – policing, race, LGBTQ+ equality and immigration – play into the daily lives of residents.
At a time when politics seeks to polarize and distort, this project offers a counternarrative.
North Shore, which showed at the Alice Austen House Museum in the fall of 2017, documents a community of Staten Island as a microcosm of contemporary life in the United States. It is an examination of the borderlands where the culture wars of our decade – policing, race, LGBTQ+ equality and immigration – play into the daily lives of residents.
At a time when global politics seeks to dehumanize and isolate these issues to make them simplistic, North Shore offers a complex, interdependent counter narrative from a surprisingly vibrant place yet unknown to most New Yorkers.
