“Police Work”: An evocative photographic exhibition

by one small seed on Mar 7, 2012 • 2:01 pm No Comments

Currently exhibited at the Museum of the City, New York is a haunting photographic collection from Magnum photographer Leonard Freed, which documents the ‘sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, and sometimes dangerous lives’ of ’70s NY police officers.’

Titled Police Work, the exhibition exposes the harsh reality of police life on the streets in New York; a life filled with both tragedy and compassion. In Police Work, Leonard Freed worked alongside the policemen of New York in order to see what life ‘on the beat’ was really like. To follow is a selection of photographers from the exhibition.