2013 Photo Contest, General News, 2nd prize

The Crescent

Photographer

Paolo Pellegrin

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

01 September, 2012

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.

About the photographer

Paolo Pellegrin

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, a...

Background story

Rochester, New York, USA

A man who was stabbed during a fight is treated by medics. He refused to give the name of the assailant to police, saying that he would take care of the affair himself.

 

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.

Technical information

Shutter Speed
1/125 sec
Focal length
28 mm
F-Stop
7.1
ISO
500
Camera
Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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