6 years in the making, here’s my debut book, “Arbitrage.”
In January 2020, I moved into my father’s one bedroom apartment in Secaucus, New Jersey - a highway town 15 minutes outside the Lincoln Tunnel of NYC, where I lived with him and my brother. My father, an aged hustler from the Bronx, was heavily into reselling anything he could make a slight profit on. With the mass exodus of people leaving the city due to the pandemic , it was the perfect time to dive into the trade of secondary markets and flea markets. At the same time, I started to become increasingly invested in photography, and knew I had to document the eccentric dealers and places I was visiting to buy and sell items. These spaces where we searched for product reminded me of a disappearing New York City, dimly-lit lawless warehouses that thrive on discretion.
These crowds and places will rapidly vanish in this modern world, but the alchemy of hustle and turning nothing into something will endure.
88 pages, self published, and part of the backstory behind my label / book store, Memorie Books.
Book release party to be announced soon.
Some more images from my book “Arbitrage”
The word arbitrage means buying something in one market with the hopes of selling it at a profit in another
The photo book is on flea markets, personal home life, and taking photos of “american dreamers” in a country in decline
Skate campaign for BBC Ice Cream featuring Jacob Gonzalez
Shoutouts to the team shoutouts my crew
Almost slipped off a bridge twice for the first photo
