Sean Fennessy | Photographer
on a rooftop in brooklyn
Nothing blog-worthy happening this week so I thought I’d dig out some old pics from our time in New York last year.
We were really keen to stay in Brooklyn but not knowing much about the area we sub-let an apartment in an suburb called Bed-Stuy. We later found out that it was a pretty notorious neighborhood - we had to walk past the public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up (and shot his brother when he was 12) to get to the subway.
We were also just around the corner from where Dave Chapelle’s Block Party was filmed.
Anyway, we survived. And we got to see a part of New York that we would have missed if we were staying in Manhattan.
The best thing about the apartment building was the rooftop looking over the river to Manhattan - we spent a bit of time up there. PJ Harvey’s You Said Something was constantly in our heads.
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By Morganna
Sat 06th Jun
2009
whoah!
i’ve known of your work for a while sean ( i was also one of the lucky 25 under 25 a few years back) and i really admired your stuff back then.
but your new stuff? i repeat whoah! it’s amazing! Your work is so clean and fresh.
keep on keeping on but i just had to tell you i love your style
By Sean Fennessy
Mon 08th Jun
2009
Hey Morganna, thanks heaps for the nice words!
Hope your new stuff is going well too