Harrigan Bowman

Know Your Neighbors
Year: 2008
Medium: Digital print
Dimensions: 13" x 19 "

Artist Statement:

Know your Neighbors: The Southwest Harlem Project is exactly what it sounds like--an opportunity to get to know one's neighbors better through the lens of the camera. It is a project that weaves multiple portraits together to create one comprehensive portrait; a temporal, evolving snapshot, an up-close detail of who we are  at this transitional moment in time, here in southwest Harlem. It is street based and relationship based, a collaboration between neighbors to photographically get to know one another, but to also personally get to know one another.

Although works may stand alone as individual portraits, the meaning of the work comes in its entirety. It is considered one piece, one portrait.