How Gentrifying Photographers Can Be Responsible Story Tellers

I'll never forget the 1st time I encountered it after moving to New York City. I was on the train, working for a wedding photographer in Coney Island. An irate man, clearly a lifelong minority resident, made his frustration with my presence quite known. "Go back to Manhattan where you belong, white girl." I was both deeply saddened and deeply grateful for this exchange. It was horribly uncomfortable but, it's about time that feeling gets flipped on white folks regularly, we are all overdue on th...