Pennsylvania

Mark Cohen’s ‘Grim Street’ – the Bang of the Flash and the Crop of the Head

“I come in a bit closer. So it’s not a play; it’s a macro-play that I’m dealing with. It’s a macro-play that I create with my own intrusion into the scene…” “Grim Street” is a selection and book of photographs by street photographer Mark […]

Byberry Insane Asylum – A House of Horrors in 1940’s Philadelphia

For nearly 200 years, Northeastern Philadelphia had treated its surrounding mentally ill citizens “to keep them off the streets” because they caused “terror among their neighbors.”