Alvin Baltrop, Friend (The Piers), 1977Courtesy of The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Third Streaming, New YorkWho? Open Eye Gallery's current exhibition has cast light on the little known work of gay African American photographer Alvin Baltrop who beautifully, and obsessively, captured the clandestine activities taking place under New York piers between 1975 and 1986.
What? The waterfront was at this time in a state of abandonment and dilapidation, and played host to an invisible populace who exploited its potential a...
