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Richard Koci Hernandez has been practicing street photography for decades, favoring low-tech media such as pin-hole cameras, Holgas, and, more recently, the iPhone to create mysterious images of the urban landscape and people on the move.  Artist statement: Emmy-award-winner Richard Koci Hernandez has been practicing street photography for decades, favoring low-tech media such as pin-hole cameras, Holgas, and more recently, the iPhone, to create mysterious images of urban landscapes and people on the move. His black and white work has a distinctly film-noir flavor, evoking modernist photography of the ’30s which balances formal compositions with gritty textures and human narratives. People are often captured in profile, appearing as a silhouette or the simple shape of a hat, umbrella, or heels set in the anonymous cities, corridors, train stations, and airports of our global world. While the black and white pictures feel real, surreal, and timeless, his color images are more contemporary, glamorous, and cosmopolitan in tone. Yet it is just as hard to place them in time and space.