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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

Port Newark

Newark Broad Street Station

Roman Ruins

This way to freedom

Waiting for demolition at the “Little Annie Bridge”

Essex County Jail


Rusting barge

Symmetrical bridges cross the Passic River

City in autumn

Essex County Jail

Waiting for demolition at the “Little Annie Drawbridge”

Big tires, bigger nation

After hours in Port Newark

Craneway Street

The Chimney Falls – 2008

Pulaski Skyway

Industrial zone in the New Jersey Meadowlands

Downtown Newark


Old drawbridge at Port Newark

Gulf Station

Sunset on the Passaic River

A sense of scale

Corbin Stret