Jamel Shabazz Returns to His Roots With “Prospect Park”

In the following essay, Jamel Shabazz takes us inside “My Oasis in Brooklyn,” where he honed his expansive photography practice over half a century.

I started photographing in the park during the summer of 1980. I was freshly home from being honorably discharged from the United States Army after completing a thirty-six month tour in West Germany. I was “back on the block,” as we called it, w...

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