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2014 Contact Photography Festival: Part 3

As a nod to the 40th year since hip hop was founded in New York’s south Bronx, the Gladstone Hotel is showing a selection of iconic photographic portraits of hip hop artists and emcees for the Contact Photography Festival. This exhibition does not only document the cultural phenomenon through these individuals, but also explores the communication of persona through photography, and the collaboration between photographer and artist to convey the subject’s identity, in particular the relationship between the individual’s past roots and present artistry.