Sunday, April 7, 2024

Help for longtime LES photographer Marlis Momber

Image via GoFundMe 

Friends of longtime Lower East Side documentarian and activist Marlis Momber are raising funds as she continues to recover from cancer. You can read more about the campaign and her work at this GoFundMe link

Below is her 1978 documentary "that depicts the 'before gentrification occurrences' in the Lower East Side in the fall of October 1978 with Chino Garcia & Bimbo Rivas" ...

 

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for featuring this important artist. All the best to you, Ms. Momber: Thank you for your love for and commitment to this neighborhood for so many years. You have made a difference.

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