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American photographer

Not to be confused with Trinidadian football manager Jamaal Shabazz.

Jamel Shabazz (born )^[1] is an African Americanfashion, fine-art, documentary, and street style photographer.

His work has been published in books, shown in exhibitions, and used in editorial magazine works. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.^[2]

Shabazz centers his work on minority people and areas of America. He was a pioneer in creating awareness of the livelihoods of African-American and other minorities in the New York City area.

Shabazz is considered a master at using what is at his disposal to create realistic scenes of being a part of the Black community in that time and place. His works express the joys that come with growing up in the city. Jamel paints the minority and poor class that lives there in a familiar and playful light that goes against negative stereotypes of the time.

One of his mst famous works is the photograph "A Time of Innocence", taken in in Brooklyn, New photograph depicts a group of young African American children playing and riding in a shopping cart in the midst of a chaotic street.

Career

His book Back in the Days () collects Shabazz's street style photographs made in New York City between and , which document its emerging hip hop culture.^[3][4]The Last Sunday in June () collects ten years of photographs of gay pride events in New York City.^[5]Sights in the City: New York Street Photographs () contains work from four decades of photographing people in the city.^[6]City Metro () contains photographs made between and of people on the New York City Subway.^[7][8]

Shabazz's photographs have appeared in the documentary film Planet B-Boy, the exhibition Street Art Street Life: From the s to Now in the Bronx Museum of the Arts,^[9] and as the album cover art for the hip hop album Undun by The Roots.

Shabazz appeared in Cheryl Dunn's documentary Everybody Street, which is "about photographers who have used New York City street life as a major subject in their work."^[10]

In an interview with Nation19 magazine, Jamel said he uses both analog film and digital photography.^[11]

In , a fictionalized version of Shabazz was portrayed by Cedric Benjamin in a flashback in the second episode of Luke Cage.^{[12][13][14][15]}

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