In 1974, Susan Meiselas moved to Mott Street, in the heart of Manhattan’s famous Little Italy neighbourhood, and soon after met a gaggle of preteen girls on the cusp of adolescence. She got to know this group, photographing their adventures as they traipsed around town, walking through the streets knowing that the world was theirs for the taking. Her photographs, which are brought together in the series Prince Street Girls, have become icons in their own right, capturing the innocent yet knowing pleasures of youth, when summers were bountiful and responsibilities were few.
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Fast forward five and a half decades to April 2021, when photographer Maxime Imbert and stylist Cristina Firpo teamed up to shoot Prince Street, a zine printed in a limited edition of 100 copies. Photographed on location at a house in Eltham South, east London, Prince Street tells the story of four sisters spending the summer holidays at home. Dressed in vintage Prada, Fiona O’Neill, Helena Manzano, Alexandra Armata, and Ilana Blumberg, the girls effuse a sense of casual chic, ready for wherever life may take them.
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A familiar sensation of excitement and boredom fills the photographs, lending the images a melancholic air and the viewer a sense of nostalgia for a perhaps simpler time. With a second edition potentially on the way, all profits from Prince Street will go to Hackney Quest, a charity organisation serving the young people and families of Imbert and Firpo’s own neighbourhood. Here, the duo tells us about the making of Prince Street.
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