When I first moved to New York, I got a job with CBS News doing courtroom drawings some undercover work and also fieldwork.
I was okay at quickly drawing having studied classical drawing and working at Disneyland drawing people in the park. I had to dress up like a pirate but that’s another story.
So I ended up in a lot of NYC court rooms drawing for the nightly news. A lot of these trials involved black panther shootings, the Weather Underground . The guy who shot John Lennon, Brooke Shields , along with every day killers like a mob guy who shot a girl then as he was stuffing her in his car trunk three CBS technicians saw him and asked what he was doing so he shot them also and tried to stuff them in the trunk also. Caught doing so of course as they would not all fit.
So this led the way to looking at New York in a different way, an interesting vantage point. I see the city with a huge amount of optimism, but there is a darker side also.
To see some more images and hear the stories of what I heard and experinced, the entire playlist is on YouTube here
