What’s the Hook?, a community-based photography project, culminates its summer-long series of exhibits with an installation at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition (BWAC) running through August 14 at the Beard Street Warehouse, 499 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook.
This exhibit continues the ongoing series of exhibits that make up the “What’s the Hook” project, featuring photographs of the Red Hook community taken by the Red Hook community. The exhibit was created to bring the community together to record, remember and re-define the changing face of Red Hook.
Introduced last summer as a project aimed at documenting a single week in the life of Red Hook, “What’s the Hook?” asked people of all backgrounds to submit images captured during the week of August 12-19, 2007.
Kids from PS 27, 27 Huntington Street, and their neighbors at the senior center were given single-use cameras. Other people used their own. In seven ordinary days, more than 120 people produced over 1,000 extraordinary photos of what Red Hook means to them.
A selection of “What’s the Hook?” photos can be seen and downloaded at http://flickr.com/groups/whatsthehook/pool); images of all kinds, from the pupusa vendors at the ball fields to the crew of the Crown Princess at the container port, old-timers and newcomers, professionals and amateurs, dog-walkers and drivers.
The show will also be at The Sovereign Bank, now to August 18, at 498 Columbia Street and at the Red Hook Public Library, through September, at 7 Wolcott Street.
Excerpts from “What’s the Hook?” will be shown at exhibits at a variety of venues throughout Red Hook. For information, go to http://whatsthehook07.com.
