Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn 1976

Carroll Gardens,  Brooklyn 1976

Lost Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, 1975

Carroll Gardens 1975
copyright peterbellamy 2010

Guido with his pompadour and little brother, Carroll Gardens

Carroll Gardens Portrait 1974, copyright Peter Bellamy 2010,

I learned that when you did street photography, you always gave people you photographed a photo, so that when you returned you would not get beaten up. I learned this from my late teacher Bill Gedney.

Barbershop, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, 1975

Barbershop 1974, Carroll Gardens, Copyright Peter Bellamy 2010

I would prowl the streets, look in stores, engage people in conversation.  I had a big camera, on a tripod, and I was 19 at the time.  Carroll Gardens had Italians, mostly, and was safe only if they wanted you to be safe.  It was a neighborhood.