From The Bay to Around The Way.
Photo Essay by Fernando Amaro Jr.

This year De-Bug offered me the chance to travel. I was given the opportunity to travel to New York in early June for 4 days -- the 6 th thru the 10 th .   The flight took 6 hours, it was freakin long and awesome, the whole flight there was a new experience because of the long ass mission. I stayed up for the whole trip drawing and thinking a lot about a lot of stuff, so yeah when we finally arrived in New York I started sweating, not because of stress or nerves but because it was hella humid out there. During this trip I pretty much stayed up for the whole trip . I felt like I was in the kitchen and you know what they say, if you can't stand the heat get out the kitchen. But anyways I attended the 1 st Annual Ethnic Media Expo which took place at Columbia University, which is also where we stayed at during the trip off of 116 th street.   Here are some photos from the trip , enjoy .

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"Kept Absorbed"
Interview with photographer Abraham Menor
Video by Edward Nieto