New York’s most notorious cruising spot captured in photo exhibition
New York’s history was photographer Stanley Stellar. An exhibition of his pier photos arrives at the Kapp Kapp gallery in NYC this weekend.“I wanted to be part of this new freedom,” Stellar says in a press release for the show. “And with that freedom came this place behind a fence.
There was a wooden fence placed in front of the perimeter of all the abandoned piers. And, as the cars went by on the West Side Highway, they didn’t know we were there.
They didn’t know anybody was on the other side of the wooden fence.”Stellar, who was born in 1945, has lived in the same TriBeCa loft on N.
Moore Street since the 1970s. He has witnessed—and captured through his lens—great changes in New York during that time.Through Stellar’s eyes, the one constant is his peers’ unwavering dedication to connection.
