lola new york

Sammy Tobin just spent two weeks dodging water buffalo with her family in Africa 

here’s a sneak preview some of her captured images.

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Each weekend this summer I have been photographing local kids in the Hamptons. Living in the city more or less full time now, I see the Hamptons looking in, as I had not fully seen living there looking out. While there are truths to the perception of world class opulence and riches, that is not the entire story.
There are many local, homegrown, talented, and somewhat forgotten youths out there that are stuck in a world not of reality. It will mess with your head if you grow up in a working class family, and all you see when you step outside of your house is luxury : but gated off, hedged in, tinted, untouchable luxury. The kids from North Sea, Springs, The Reservation, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, Southampton village are caught in a strange place.
I have been shooting with a large format camera and just walking around the villages and different parts of the Hamptons asking kids to take some portraits. I am going to be a part of great show on August 23rd at the Channing Daughters Winery which will raise money to benefit Save Sag Harbor.
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Below are some scanned in contacts from the first week of shooting. More to come in the near future. Email me at emmett@lolanewyork.com if you are out east and would like to be a part of the project. Thanks.
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I also shot Max Barbaria, Sean Kinney, and James Cruickshank. We all grew up out east, now live in the city and experience the duality of both worlds.
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-Emmett

One of my main Work Horse went to the All-Star game last night she flicked it up for Sports Illustrated to say the least to say the most this kids hair cut is urban

After five weeks in Tokyo, I am preparing to play my final weekend and thought I would share a couple shots from the last few weeks. DJing in Japan has been a great experience and I will miss it very much. The people have been gracious hosts, and the women have been large in abundance. This is in no way a utopia, but things do seem to work well here. Nothing is broken or impossible, you just can’t read or understand how to use or do it. This mantra has faded over the last couple weeks and I have started to become accustomed to the culture here. But there are some things I’ll never get used to….the Japanese DJ takes his shoes off in the DJ booth.

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Recently me and my very Israeli brother Ron took took a journey to Rio to figure out the meaning of life. After listening to “Lost Cause” on repeat all night, drinking a case of Malbec, and smoking carton of cigarettes it all seemed to make sense.

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best,

james