// Carlos Ortiz

Bronx Council on the Arts' Longwood Arts Project would like to thank Holland Cotter for his review of our current exhibits in Friday October 26, 2001's New York Times (p. E35):

Longwood, run by the Bronx Council on the Arts, also has a beautiful small show of photographs by Carlos Ortiz. Several were taken in the 1970's, when the neighborhood, brutalized by urban politics, was ailing and generally shunned. Mr. Ortiz captured the streets around the Longwood Arts Project itself, devastated at the time, in a series of almost lyrical images of foggy lots and empty streets. The same area has been restored to health today, or is at least very much on the mend. But Mr. Ortiz' pictures are reminders that even in its darkest hour, it was viewed by some eyes with sympathy and love.