There's No Turning Back

Photographed in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn, this used to be a dangerous and seedy part of New York City. While it has been gentrified in the decades since, wandering DUMBO in 2020, during a time when the streets were empty and eerie, allowed me to get a glimpse of what NYC may have been like when the mobs and gangsters controlled the city. One of my biggest influences with my photography has got to be the neo-noir gangster movies I've seen as a child. This photograph is a tribute to that.