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Jul 20
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It seems that a lot of people – some who are in charge of public funds, and plenty of those who aren’t – have no real idea of what a library does today, what kinds of people visit the library, or why we might want our branches open evenings and weekends. Photojournalist Joey O’Loughlin, who beautifully captured the students of A.P. Tureaud School for the Desk Set last year, has given the world some photographic evidence of the way patrons all over the borough of Brooklyn use their local branches.
The results of Joey’s work are on display at the BPL Central Branch through the end of August in an exhibition titled “One World, Many Stories: Where do the books go?”
Pictured are a teenage poet, an elderly shut in, a lyricist, many families, students and more. What makes the portraits so intriguing is that Joey goes home with the subjects, capturing the ways branches in Gravesend, Crown Heights, and Brighton Beach among others serve patrons in their daily lives.
Check out this film on BPLs website featuring some of the photographs with accompanying interviews, and don’t miss the exhibition. But let’s be honest – if you’re reading this blog, you probably have some idea of why and how and when you and your neighbors use the library. So talk to your elected officials and your iPadded friends who keep asking what the point of a library is in this brave new world, and tell them to go.
Also, please enjoy the smiles on the faces of these readers who generally use the library to see and read about other worlds, but this time came to see themselves. All photos by Joey O’Loughlin.
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