One teenage photographer's incredible record of the 1970s Bronx and its musical pioneers Joe Conzo has a report card from 1972 that says, 'Joe Conzo is excelling in photography.' He was nine years old. The hobby continued into his teens as around him swirled gangs, drugs and social uprising. The Bronx in the 1970s provided the perfect conditions for a new scene, and Conzo just happened to be there at the birth of hip hop, with his camera at the ready. 'I had no idea I was documenting a moment in time. I just liked taking pictures,' he says. He was there when The Cold Crush Brothers started performing hip hop gigs around town. Only they didn't call it hip hop then - it didn't have a name. The pioneering hip hop legends hired Conzo to be their official photographer... To view his rare photography: PICTURES LINK
