strange-rs: New Stranger! It’s a new year, and we’re happy to bring you the newest member of the strange.rs family - Justin Vogel. Born and raised in Hells’ Kitchen, NYC, Justin’s street work is at once classic and contemporary, and his strange.rs portfolio is a perfect example of that. This interview is a good starting point to understanding the mind of our newest, and perhaps strangest, recruit. “I like all types of people. I like the “haves”, and the “Have-nots”. Anybody interesting, anybody with style. I like the people who walk around with a big FUCK YOU on their faces. I like the people who walk around with their hearts on their sleeves. I guess you could say characters or whatever, but I kinda hate that term. I shoot the same Streets day after day, year after year, and I shoot the people who I share those streets with. The people’s style’s change, but the Street stays the same. They clean shit up, raise the rents etc. it doesn’t change things. Back in the eighties this world down here was an immense shit hole. Now it is super fancy. 10 years from now it will be a shit hole again. Part of me cant wait.” Justin kicks ass. Now I just hope he can kick some life into the rest of us. Strange.rs has been somewhat dormant recently; call it a winter hibernation perhaps, but I can feel a spark returning. 
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New Stranger!

It’s a new year, and we’re happy to bring you the newest member of the strange.rs family - Justin Vogel.

Born and raised in Hells’ Kitchen, NYC, Justin’s street work is at once classic and contemporary, and his strange.rs portfolio is a perfect example of that. This interview is a good starting point to understanding the mind of our newest, and perhaps strangest, recruit.

“I like all types of people. I like the “haves”, and the “Have-nots”. Anybody interesting, anybody with style. I like the people who walk around with a big FUCK YOU on their faces. I like the people who walk around with their hearts on their sleeves. I guess you could say characters or whatever, but I kinda hate that term. I shoot the same Streets day after day, year after year, and I shoot the people who I share those streets with. The people’s style’s change, but the Street stays the same. They clean shit up, raise the rents etc. it doesn’t change things. Back in the eighties this world down here was an immense shit hole. Now it is super fancy. 10 years from now it will be a shit hole again. Part of me cant wait.”

Justin kicks ass. Now I just hope he can kick some life into the rest of us. Strange.rs has been somewhat dormant recently; call it a winter hibernation perhaps, but I can feel a spark returning. 

Source: strangers-old

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