Bruce Gilden (born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is a street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun.
Another defining characteristic of Gilden’s photography is his creative attraction to what he calls “characters,” and he has been tracking them down all through his career. His first major project, which he worked on until 1986, focused on Coney Island, the legendary Brooklyn beach where New Yorkers who cannot escape the city heat have been going for cheap thrills summer after summer.
In his early years, Gilden also photographed in New Orleans during its famous Mardi Gras festival. Then, in 1984, Bruce made his first trip to Haiti where he worked for ten years. His book Haiti, published in 1995, won the European Award for Photography. It could have marked the end of his professional and personal story with Haiti, but after the earthquake of January 2010, Bruce went back three times, and he has decided to continue documenting the endless hardships of the Haitian people, and “keep the light burning.”
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