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Witness to History: The photographers of 9/11 Tuesday, September 6, 2011    Last updated: Wednesday September 28, 2011, 4:46 PM BY THOMAS E. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER The Record WATCH ‘WITNESS TO HISTORY: THE PHOTOGRAPHERS OF 9/11′ “An anonymous man plummeting headfirst toward certain death. A trail of smoke billowing from two dying skyscrapers. Three resolute firemen [...]

  “Close to 100 people filled the 15th floor conference space on September 29th for the Los Seis del Sur photo exhibit, sponsored by VOCES, the New York Times’s Latino Affinity Group.  The attendees – artists, activists, journalists and leaders in the Latino community – were treated to a slideshow and discussion by Los Seis, [...]

  The Dia exhibition is featured in the New York Times Lens blog and link to the FotoVisura website galleries of all of the work in the show of the participating photographers.

The work of eight Puerto Rican photographers, Frank Espada, Perla de León, David Gonzalez, Joe Conzo, Ricky Flores, Pablo Delano, Máximo Colón, and Francisco Reyes II, will be featured in the Dia exhibition at the New York Photo Festival.  Carolina Gonzalez wrote an advance article on the show in the New York Daily News Latino [...]

The full show can be seen by clicking the above photo.   The FotoVisura Pavilion Sponsored by The Viso Lizardi Family Dumbo Arts Center, 111 Front Street (Suite 212) Dumbo, NY 11201 Cuando yo miro tus ojos parece que miro al cielo arropado con estrellas y cubierto con luceros ….BOMBA! DIA Dia exhibition unites eight [...]

African-American protesters take to the streets in Bensonhurst in Brooklyn on May 19, 1990, after the acquittal of Keith Mondello on the charge of manslaughter in the death of Yusef Hawkins, a Black youth who was shot to death on August 23, 1989.  Protesters were met by jeers and curses from a mostly Italian community [...]

Surviving Hunts Point’s bad old days Posted on 20. Feb, 2010 By Peter Jackson | peter.jackson@hunter.cuny.edu Photographer Ricky Flores remembers bad times and good By Peter A. Jackson mrpjacks@gmail.com Ricky Flores’ friends call him the “Jimmy Olsen Guy” because, like Superman’s sidekick, he always has a camera in his hands. Flores left Longwood in the [...]

Es sorprendente la manera como las circunstancias nos llevan a conocer algunas personas. Sobretodo hoy día que con tan solo conectarnos al espacio cibernético ya tenemos a nuestra disposición la maravilla de poder navegar las vidas de millares. Fue así como llegamos a conocer a Ricky Flores y será por este medio como conoceremos a [...]

BRONX LATINO: Artist Spotlight: Ricky Flores. South Bronx is a ‘Refreshing Adventure’ for this Boricua Photographer Black and white images depict the story of Puerto Ricans living among the South Bronx rubble back in the day. Photos tell the stories of young people riding trains plagued with graffiti and playing on lots full of debris. [...]

South Bronx during the 80s and 90s by Ricky Flores | Photography | Lifelounge. Having grown up in the South Bronx during the 80s, Ricky Flores began to photograph his life in the city.  His images are partly candid friend images and partly of the wider Puerto Rican community at a vibrant time in South [...]

LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY. I.S. 206 License to Dream, 1995 29 silver gelatin prints Auditorium vestibule and school office NYC Board of Education Percent for Art Program Public Art in the Bronx, a project of Lehman College Art Gallery / City University of New York, examines the rich collection of public art found in our [...]

Ricky Flores – NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. This project is partly a retrospective of Ricky Flores’ work as well as work produced exclusively for M.S./P.S. 206. Twenty-six silver gelatin prints hang in the vestibule of the auditorium of the school. There are three additional prints hanging in the office of the school. The installation [...]

9/11: How One Day Changed Our World – USATODAY.com.

The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko which will document the evolution of the boom box will be featuring some of my work within its pages.  No New Enemies Network has done a pre-release review of the book check it out.

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