Mott Street, by Alison Grippo

Alison Grippo
Born: New York, NY.
Currently resides in: New York, New York

Website: http://www.inkcapture.com/

Work Statement:
I took my first photograph with a pinhole camera and never looked back. I shoot people, people in their moments, finding their space inside of crowds and cities and thick urban landscapes. I shoot their single moment when they are entirely who they are and may not even know it. I shoot them anywhere they shine. The submissions are two from the Chinese firework festival in New York, and then one special one of a woman in a small coffee shop having just left a hospital to get a cup of coffee. She was clearly mentally unstable and arguing with her self in the corner of the shop with a bandage still on her hand from where the IV once was.

Bio:
I grew up in Manhattan, born and bred a native New Yorker I've never learned to drive. I have no formal training in photographer other than my eyes and years of trial and error with reading as many books as I can get my hands on. There is also the constantly asking questions of those I think are better than me so I can learn. I'm 33, I'm old enough to sign most any legal waiver. As for what got me into photography - my father, he spoke of his darkroom often and I caught his bug.