Jamel Shabazz is an American fashion, fine art, documentary, and street style photographer. His work has been published in books, shown in exhibitions, and used in editorial magazine works. From https://web.archive.org/web/20221214213654/http://www.jamelshabazz.com/#about Jamel Shabazz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of fifteen, he picked up his first camera and started to document his peers. Inspired by photographers Leonard Freed, James Van Der Zee, and Gordon Parks, he was marveled with their documentation of the African American community. In 1980 as a concerned...
