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NOVEMBER REIGN

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NOVEMBER REIGN

El Rey de la Puntualidad.  11 x 14  Coffee on Archers SIENIDE.

For decades, Johnny Pacheco has been at the center of the Latin music universe. His nine Grammy nominations, ten Gold records and numerous awards pay tribute to his creative talent as composer, arranger, bandleader, and producer. Moreover, he is the pioneer of an unforgettable musical era that changed the face of tropical music history, the Fania All-Stars era.

In an article published on October 4, 2005, The New York Times proclaimed photographer Joe Conzo Jr. as “The Man Who Took Hip-Hop’s Baby Pictures.” The scope and magnitude of his visceral camera images had finally been acknowledged by American mainstream media.Born and raised in the Bronx, “Joey” acquired a flair for photography at the age of nine while attending the Agnes Russell School on the campus of Columbia University; later, advancing those skills at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He grew up at the heels of his grandmother – a dynamic leader and passionate activist within the minority community of the South Bronx – the late Dr. Evelina Antonetty. His father, Joe Conzo Sr., was long-time confidant and historian for the late “King of Latin Music” Tito Puente. Exposure to these “politically and culturally charged” worlds had a profound effect on how he viewed his environment through the lens of a camera. However, Joe Conzo Jr. really came of age as a young man and as a photographer at a turbulent period in New York City’s urban decay. He was part of a generation that refused to be silenced by the choke of flame-engulfed South Bronx tenements and a disparaging educational system. Their defiant voices gave rise to a cultural movement known as Hip Hop. And at its early stage, Joey passionately embraced the role of photographer within the phenomenon.

Most of those images from the 70’s and 80’s caught on b/w film by Joey, have traveled in one form or another to parts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas. They are regarded by genre experts and academians as an important visual record of key pioneers to the modern Hip Hop movement, and integral to any serious discourse on the subject. His first book “Born In The Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop” (2007), a collaborative effort with noted New York musicologist and curator

Johan Kugelberg, has received world-wide acclaim. In 2008, a collection of his early Hip Hop photographs became part of a permanent archive housed at Cornell University. The images are located right next to its copy of The Gettysburg Address document.

Like most modern photographers, Joey has undergone the transition to digital. His stills continue to reflect the four main tenets of Hip Hop culture which are Mc’ing (often called rapping), DJ’ing, graffiti writing, and breakdancing. He has traveled throughout the USA on-assignment, as a lecturer, and as an exhibitor. He has crossed the oceans to England, Japan, Korea and other parts of the world where the global impact of Hip Hop music, culture, and dancing has become undeniable. His images have appeared on HBO and VH1, in the motion picture film CB4 (starring Chris Rock), in publications such as VIBE, Complex, Hip-Hop Connection (Europe), Urban Hitz (Australia), Esquire and Wax Poetics. His works also appear in the books “Hip Hop Immortals” (2003), “Yes, Yes, Y’all” (2002), and have been displayed at the prestigious Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.

Currently, Joey has a second book of photographs in progress, and a third in the planning stage. In mid-January, he will be travelling to Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to give a presentation of his work.

CONTACT:
Joe Conzo Jr., photographer
jconzo@aol.com
www.joeconzo.com
(cell) 1-646-662-8958

Francisco Molina Reyes II

Francisco Molina Reyes II is a
Nuyorican visual artist, born in the
Bronx and raised in El Barrio, NYC.
He began studying photography
formally with Harlem documentary
photographer Shawn Walker, as part
of a Work/Study Internship @
Hunter College in 1973. From
1975 to 1980, he lived and worked as
a “street photographer” in the South
Bronx where he received a grant to
develop a Basic B/W Photography
Workshop at the United Bronx Parents “Escuelita”.
During a twenty-year period, Francisco spent part of that time photographing Latin music artists and performances at concert halls and clubs throughout New York City. His photos have appeared in various publications, including Latin New York Magazine, FAMA, Latino News, New York Latino, Newsday,The Daily News and El Diario/La Prensa in New York City. He also served as Music Editor for Latin NY Magazine (1980-82), before relocating to pursue a career in Film and Broadcast Television. Photos from Francisco’s collection were published in the journal Black Renaissance Noire (Spring 2008), and have become part of a permanent display at The Point (located in the Bronx) titled “From Mambo to Hip Hop” (2009). Several images taken during his service with United Bronx Parents, Inc. have ecome part of the El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños (Hunter College) archives (2009). His work- in-progress “The Exile of Innocence” (B/W prints from the 70s-80s) previewed at the BronxArtSpace Gallery next to the works of celebrated photographer Lisa Kahane – “Lapses of Memory” (2010). Another collection of digital photographs titled “Nuyorican inParadise” is up for a 2010 BRIO Award. Also, in the works, is a joint collaboration with photographers Angel Franco, Joe Conzo, Ricky Flores, David Gonzalez and Edwin Pagan to be held at the LongwoodGallery in the Bronx, NYC (2010). Francisco currently lives in the Bronx.

Francisco Molina Reyes II

www.mamboso.net

Painted in wine for " LIVING IN THE BOTTLE" A Solo Exhibition By SIENIDE

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