Marcel Winatschek

Bowery Boys

Keiichi Nitta published his first book in April, Bowery Boys, and it reads like the work of someone who spent real time in Terry Richardson’s studio—that same hunger for bodies and street rawness, that same refusal to soften anything. Packed with naked girls and street types, filtered through a Japanese sensibility that shouldn’t sit well with New York street photography but somehow does. Richardson must have been a good teacher. The pictures aren’t apologizing for what they are, and that’s exactly what they need to be.