Alex Welsh Photography
February 16th, 2010
Alex Welsh (b. 1986, USA) is a recent graduate from San Francisco State University, where he majored in Photojournalism and minored in both History and Middle Eastern Studies. Over the last year, Welsh worked in San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood photographing the issues such as poverty, criminalization, gang violence, and displacement surrounding the gentrification of the city’s last predominantly African American community.
Brie responded on 16 Feb 2010 at 7:20 pm #
Great artist feature. I love that his subject matter is what’s real and unglamorous while also providing social commentary. San Francisco has the smallest African American population of all the major cities, largely due to gentrification.
Sito responded on 17 Feb 2010 at 1:25 am #
I had no idea there were so few African Americans in SF.