Jamel Shabazz (born 1960)[1] is an African American fashion, fine-art, documentary, and street style photographer.
Shabazz is considered a master at using what is at his disposal to create realistic scenes of being a part of the Black community in that time and place.
Jamel paints the minority and poor class that lives there in a familiar and playful light that goes against negative stereotypes of the time.
His book Back in the Days (2002) collects Shabazz's street style photographs made in New York City between 1980 and 1989, which document its emerging hip hop culture.
[3][4] The Last Sunday in June (2003) collects ten years of photographs of gay pride events in New York City.