The Crescent

30 August 2012

Rochester, New York, USA

Police officers search a house for an armed suspect in northeast Rochester.

 

The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Location

Rochester, NY, USA

Technical information

Shutter speed: 1/30 sec
ISO: 6400
F-Stop: 2.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III

Paolo Pellegrin
Nationality:
Italy
About:
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome, Italy. He studied architecture at Sapienza Università di Roma, before moving on to photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, also in the Italian capital. Between 1991 and 2001, Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001, he became a Magnum Photos nominee, and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine in the US and Zeit magazine in Germany.
Commissioner:
Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin