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As a lifelong citizen of Newark, I spent much of the past few years painting and photographing my changing city. Pictures features a selection of my work, complemented by classical music. Five of Modest Mussorgsky’s pieces from his composition Pictures at an Exhibition are selected, each of which represents the feel of a certain part of Newark. The following five locations are featured:
1. THE PASSAIC RIVER – music: Mussorgsky’s Promenade
2. OLD ESSEX COUNTY JAIL – music: With the Dead in the Language of Death
3. MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY – music: Promenade
4. DOWNTOWN NEWARK – music: Mozart’s Death March (k 453a)
5. PORT NEWARK – music: Promenade
Growing up in Newark, I am inspired and saddened by the inner city. I am inspired by Newark’s hope of renewal after decades of white flight, under-investment, and urban neglect. I am saddened by the loss of my city’s historic architecture and urban fabric to the wrecking ball of what is called progress.
Curious about the history of the old Essex County Jail? Explore this interactive exhibit.
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Featured work from this film

A sense of scale

Waiting for demolition at the “Little Annie Drawbridge”

Waiting for demolition at the “Little Annie Bridge”

Corbin Stret

Newark Broad Street Station

Symmetrical bridges cross the Passic River

Industrial zone in the New Jersey Meadowlands

Port Newark

After hours in Port Newark

Craneway Street

Essex County Jail

Sunset on the Passaic River


Big tires, bigger nation

Gulf Station

The Chimney Falls – 2008

Rusting barge

Essex County Jail

Downtown Newark

Old drawbridge at Port Newark


Pulaski Skyway

This way to freedom

City in autumn

Roman Ruins