IT’S ALL GOOD – Boogie

Published by PowerHouse Books – 2006 – USA
30 x 19 cm – 136 pages – Hardcover

1st edition

A gritty, graphic, and gripping exposé of the underworld and its inhabitants, It’s All Good—presented here as an updated, 10th anniversary edition featuring a new edit and 40 never-before-seen photographs from the series of Boogie’s widely acclaimed first monograph (Miss Rosen Editions/powerHouse Books, 2006)—chronicles the predators and the prey of New York City’s drug game at the start of the new millennium. Shot in New York’s most notorious neighborhoods—Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Queensbridge—Boogie gained intimate access into a world few dare to venture, a world closed to outsiders, a world of crackheads, junkies, and gangsters. From the cops patrolling the project roofs to the addicts overdosing on the streets, It’s All Good captures urban life in stark, heart-stopping images and intense testimonials. Boogie brings us to a place few will escape, a place where the exit is one rock, one shot, one glock away.

“Ten years ago, when I was working on the original It’s All Good, I never did contact sheets; I didn’t even own a lightbox. I would look at the negative sheet by the light of the window and choose a couple of images to scan. Over the years, I realized how many images I missed, so many that should’ve been in the book from the beginning. I still don’t own a lightbox, but ten years of editing experience counts for something!”
—Boogie