Adventures In Street Style, Bushwick Edition.

“I moved here when Ops opened up,” Corey Jermaine tells me. I had been aware of his work as a photographer for some time now, ever since he pitched me on a vertical that would capture the street style outside his doorstop, somewhere between Variety Coffee and L-Train Vintage. The people he found in between these spots of commercial Bushwick were an interesting group, between 19 and 27, apparel designers, artists, college students; they represented a certain vision of the neighborhood in the popular imagination, people on the precipice of going somewhere else. Less than a decade ago, Jermaine was like them too, a young Penn State graduate with a marketing degree, living in New Jersey. He made the hop to Bushwick in 2017, splitting an apartment with a sing-songwriter friend. She eventually left, but Jermaine stayed. In the years since, he’s turned in profiles of local indie singers and podcasters, who all lend his lens a kind of streetwise affect, animated by a kind of self-awareness in their eyes.