NEW YORK, RAW AND UNCUT

Jerome De Perlinghi’s work is vast and multifaceted, shaped by a lifetime devoted to photography.
This collection of images from New York City carries strong documentary value while also revealing the photographer’s personal vision of life on the city streets across two decades.

This project is currently seeking support through a crowdfunding campaign, now entering its final week.
Woofermagazine invites you to support Jerome’s work by getting a copy of the photobook.

“Boarding a Capitol Airways DC10 in 1981 brought me for the first time to JFK, this was my first trip outside of Europe and New York seemed the perfect choice and destination.

Within seconds of walking out of the subway, Manhattan grabs your soul and spirit, and you understand that it will never let you lose. I am a 20-year-old with dreams. Like many photographers before me, I want to explore, discover and photograph the moving city. All streets and neighborhoods must be visited. In 1983 and 1984, I am attracted by the names The Bronx or Harlem as I try to channel my inner strength by walking through the hoods while shooting images. It is in these neighborhoods across the city that I really learned my trade and that I became a street photographer, overcoming my fears of the unknown and the rough edges of the city. By 1986, I was cruising the city, somewhat fearless, still aware of the challenges but riding my luck -luck is an element of the daily life of any photographer, you simply need some to make some of your best photographs. So for 20 years, I would come and go, sometime on assignment for your newspaper like my beloved “Libération” others time to shoot portraits, the other side of my photography. And naturally I would walk to Battery Park to Jerome Avenue in The Bronx of from Times Square to Coney Island, yes, I wrote walk, because for me, the steps from street to street are at the heart of any street project. New York taught me that there is something happening at every corner and I never let it loose. This is also my last street project completely shot on film. With only 36 images to a roll, the mind and reflexes had to be sharp. For sure that number 36 was a friendly reminder that frame, distance, aperture and speed better be in osmose with your brain.

This book strives to show you how I achieved my dreams of becoming a photographer.

New York helped shape me, that is a fact.”