Break These Chains . Capper-Carrollsburg . SE WDC
Chain and Padlock . Capper-Carrollsburg Community . SE . WDC . Sunday afternoon, 27 November 2005
Sunday Photo Walk
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
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One year ago today on Thanksgiving Monday, 29 November 2004, on a photo assignment for the Washington Spark Newsletter www.washingtonspark.org I would accompany Anu Yadav to Arthur Capper Projects in SE WDC www.washingtonspark.org/photo/thumbnails.php?album=42. She had written and was in the process of developing the one woman play 'Capers' which caught my attention because the one woman aspect and the interviewing process of her documentary was not unlike those specfics regarding my project "This Is For The Black Men Who've Contemplated Suicide When That Rainbow Was Just Too Much!"
The article was published in the December 2004 issue of the Washington Spark.
Wanting to nuture an ongoing relationship with the community I would return a few days later and deliver some of the pictures to some of the subjects www.washingtonspark.org/photo/displayimage.php?album=42&a... whom I had photographed when I would visit the area with Anu Yadav.
At which point I would realize that if I had come just a few hours or a day later the one group of subjects would no longer have been there. Having knocked on their door at 328 K Street when Brenda would open it I'd observe that she and a few others were in the process of packing. Thanking me, she said, 'We'll moving. Had you come a few hours later you would have missed us.'
Even to this day and every time since that I've revisited what was known as Arthur Capper I reflect on that moment.
Moments later when I would drop off some photos at the Recreational Center, just a block or so away, the Unit Manager would insist that, in the future, any reference to the area be Capper-Carrollusburg Community.
Over the months since and particularly since June 2005 I have revisited the area many times, photographically speaking. As was the case when during my Sunday Photo Walk on 27 November 2005 that I would commemorate my photo assignment from one year before.
In recent months and even more son in the past weeks there is evidence that now still remains will soon be demolished.
One year ago today I would capture some of the then few remaining residences who where then in the process of relocating. When, the other day, that I would comment to a close friend that I had been photographing this area for almost year, observing that the buildings are all now vacant and boarded up, rhetorically, he'd ask 'Where will all the poor people go?'
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
See photo at consumerist.com/2009/03/amazon-allows-publishers-to-kill-...
Photo published at finance.yahoo.com/news/theyve-finally-found-way-fix-14245...
Break These Chains . Capper-Carrollsburg . SE WDC
Chain and Padlock . Capper-Carrollsburg Community . SE . WDC . Sunday afternoon, 27 November 2005
Sunday Photo Walk
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
______________
One year ago today on Thanksgiving Monday, 29 November 2004, on a photo assignment for the Washington Spark Newsletter www.washingtonspark.org I would accompany Anu Yadav to Arthur Capper Projects in SE WDC www.washingtonspark.org/photo/thumbnails.php?album=42. She had written and was in the process of developing the one woman play 'Capers' which caught my attention because the one woman aspect and the interviewing process of her documentary was not unlike those specfics regarding my project "This Is For The Black Men Who've Contemplated Suicide When That Rainbow Was Just Too Much!"
The article was published in the December 2004 issue of the Washington Spark.
Wanting to nuture an ongoing relationship with the community I would return a few days later and deliver some of the pictures to some of the subjects www.washingtonspark.org/photo/displayimage.php?album=42&a... whom I had photographed when I would visit the area with Anu Yadav.
At which point I would realize that if I had come just a few hours or a day later the one group of subjects would no longer have been there. Having knocked on their door at 328 K Street when Brenda would open it I'd observe that she and a few others were in the process of packing. Thanking me, she said, 'We'll moving. Had you come a few hours later you would have missed us.'
Even to this day and every time since that I've revisited what was known as Arthur Capper I reflect on that moment.
Moments later when I would drop off some photos at the Recreational Center, just a block or so away, the Unit Manager would insist that, in the future, any reference to the area be Capper-Carrollusburg Community.
Over the months since and particularly since June 2005 I have revisited the area many times, photographically speaking. As was the case when during my Sunday Photo Walk on 27 November 2005 that I would commemorate my photo assignment from one year before.
In recent months and even more son in the past weeks there is evidence that now still remains will soon be demolished.
One year ago today I would capture some of the then few remaining residences who where then in the process of relocating. When, the other day, that I would comment to a close friend that I had been photographing this area for almost year, observing that the buildings are all now vacant and boarded up, rhetorically, he'd ask 'Where will all the poor people go?'
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
See photo at consumerist.com/2009/03/amazon-allows-publishers-to-kill-...
Photo published at finance.yahoo.com/news/theyve-finally-found-way-fix-14245...