General News, 2nd prize
The Crescent
Paolo Pellegrin
Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin
Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin
30 August, 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.
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...
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.
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