Fletcher Street - Martha Camarillo

CAMARILLO, Martha. 
Fletcher Street. 
First edition. Oblong 4to. Hardcover printed boards with dust wrapper. Colour plates throughout. New York: Powerhouse Books, 2006. 

An incredible sequence of photographs documenting urban cowboys in Philadelphia. “Deep in the heart of Philadelphia, past row houses and vacant lots, run-down playgrounds and dilapidated schools, is a little place called Fletcher Street. It has everything one would expect to find down an alley in the ghetto, with one addition: horses. The men and boys of Fletcher Street have used their passion for riding and bonds with their rides to build their and their community’s sense of worth. They describe their passion for horses as having kept them from the temptations of street life. Fletcher Street by Martha Camarillo documents the lives of these men and the boys they mentor, who board their horses in abandoned houses or makeshift stables, and ride them through the streets of Philly.”