How did you come up with this idea, and learn about this world?
The original idea came when I was exposed to the world of Weegee, the New York crime photographer.
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July 2025
Q&A with Eva Victor and Lucas Hedges
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Sorry, Baby. The film feels like you have a lot of trust in the audience to be patient, to wait for explanations, and to understand nuance. Was it that way during development?Eva Victor: Yes. I was honestly forced to be […]
October 2020
Nine Days a Week
An intimate portrait of the 80-year-old African American street photographer Louis Mendes who began his career in 1953 in Harlem as a door-to-door baby photographer. Taking street portraits across the city, through the civil rights movement, the drug epidemic, crime, and poverty, Mendes forged a living with his 1940s Speed Graphic press camera. Now a New York legend with 37 photographer apprentices, he reflects on a life of hard work, survival, and creativity.