Hobby photographers want to celebrate Newark’s diverse beauty

How do you celebrate everyday beauty and diversity during a pandemic, and in the midst of a nationwide reckoning with America’s racial history? For Newark artists Gabe Ribeiro and Chrystofer Davis, you take pictures, and encourage others around you to take pictures, too.To get more news about 免费人成在线观看视频播放, you can visit our official website.

Ribeiro and Davis said they wanted to give something back to the community and highlight the beauty and diversity Newark has to offer. So, they started the first “Nork! Photo Walk” (the name is a play on how locals pronounce “Newark”) through the city’s downtown last September, with nearly 100 participants.

“It’s important to help support and build a creative community,” Davis told NJ Advance Media. “Our goal was to create a welcome place where all skill levels could network and have fun together while highlighting what Newark has to offer.”

In front of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Travis Browndyke, who lives in Boise, Idaho, checks his phone's light meter app while next to Baltimore's Dewayne Parker, who uses a traditional light meter. Browndyke, a former Newark resident, flew in to take part in the event. Saturday, April 17, 2021.
This April, the two artists held their second walk, which started at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart and made its way into the blooming Branch Brook Park. About 50 people came to the event, clicking their shutters the whole time.

Zakiyyah Woods, who lives in Brooklyn and used to work in Newark, said when she used to come to the city, it was just for work. She didn’t take the time to look around, or to appreciate the art, architecture, views, landscape, and people of the city. The Nork! Photo Walk changed that.

“I wanted to meet other like-minded photographers and network,” Woods said. “It was a great time to be out with my camera and just enjoy the day.For Davis and Ribeiro, who were both 2020 Newark Creative Catalyst Fund grant winners, Newark’s history is another reason to celebrate it with photography. During the walk, Davis pointed out to participants that in 1887, at the Plume House on Broad Street, Rev. Hannibal Goodwin invented celluloid film, which helped give birth to motion pictures.

Participants walked throughout the park for a couple of hours and then held a raffle to win prizes for taking part. Ribeiro said the walk was an opportunity for the artistic community to come safely together, which has been a rarity since the start of the pandemic.

“It is great to meet different photographers from different communities and having them connect together and seeing the different styles in their work,” he said.