Kelly Shimoda
b.
1976From:
ConnecticutBased:
Brooklyn, NYPosition:
Freelance PhotographerEducation:
BA American Civilization & Latin American Studies, Brown University / Certificate program, ICPClients:
The New York TimesBackground:
In a quiet and subtle way, Kelly captures images to feed her obsession with the intricacies of human behavior in the modern world. After six years working in international education and communications, Kelly completed the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism certificate program at the International Center of Photography in New York, and co-founded the photo collective Veras Images in 2005. Based in Brooklyn, she is the recipient of several honors for her work including winning the Jen Bekman Gallery's Spring 2007 Hey, Hey Shot! contest and an honorable mention in the 2006 Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers competition.
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Work by Kelly Shimoda
#17 | Last Saturday Night
In the spring of 2007 the final remaining roller disco skating rinks in New York closed, ending the era that was allegedly born more than three decades before in Crown Heights, Brooklyn at The Empire. Both there and at The Roxy in Manhattan, skaters filled the rink during the final nights before the doors were closed due, in part, to ever-rising NYC real estate prices. Particularly at The Empire, roller skating was an important part of the African-American community and the rink served as a place of joy and fellowship in the neighborhood. Many of the skaters had been going to the Empire for the past 40 years, starting as kids and now skating as adults.
