There is an AP news on the subject, for which I can’t give a link.
Heres is the beginning :
23 Jan 2008 16:22 GMT
Photojournalist kicked out of NYC home
NEW YORK (AP) – David Alan Harvey is one of the world’s most famous photographers, his shots appearing in National Geographic and many other esteemed publications.
For years, he’s lived inside a building called the “kibbutz” in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, which is dotted with Hasids and hipsters.
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On Sunday, Harvey, who’s in India teaching a photography class, had his life upended as his most valuable belongings - including irreplaceable negatives - were boxed up and carted away without him.
“Now I have no home,” Harvey wrote on his blog. “No place to go. I quite literally have no plan. ... Does anyone out there have an extra sofa for me to sleep?”
Harvey joins an extraordinary group of renowned photojournalists and artists who find themselves without a place to live, work or both after authorities discovered a clandestine matzo bakery with silos of potentially dangerous grain and evacuated the building on Sunday evening.
The list of talent with ties to the building is long: Robert Clark, a contributor to National Geographic who took a series of unforgettable shots of the second plane slamming into the World Trade Center from atop of the Williamsburg building; Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli, two noted war photographers and members of Magnum Photos.
Stanley Greene, who has repeatedly documented the devastation in Chechnya; Kadir van Lohuizen, who has trained his sharp eye on the conflicts that have ravaged Africa; Simon Lee, a visual artist; and Eve Sussman, Lee’s wife, whose exhibit “89 Seconds at Alcazar” was a favorite at the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Magnum photographers Chris Anderson and Thomas Dworzak at one point also lived at 475 Kent St.
“There’s a lot of talent in that building,” Clark said.
Now, Clark, who’s preparing to go on an assignment for National Geographic this month, and the rest of the building’s approximately 200 tenants are trying to continue their careers while trying figure out where they’re going to live or reconstitute their studios
“It’s a real nightmare,” Lai Ling Jew, Clark’s wife, said. “They cannot work. Here you have people who have no office. No home. It’s not simply being evicted. They’ve lost their livelihood.”
On Tuesday, the situation was chaotic. Some of the tenants like Clark’s wife had gathered at a nearby condo, as others waited in the cold building as police let people in floor by floor to get their prized possessions. Outside, moving trucks lined the street.
“It’s ruining my life and career,” said Stephen Lee, a fashion photographer who was supposed to be shooting in Los Angeles but instead found himself standing next to a frustrated Christopher Farber, a photographer, who lived in the 11-story building with his girlfriend
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