I met Tamara in New York last year and I admired her eye for details. One of her photos is hanging on my wall. She has worked with Bowie, Metallica and some other big names in the music industry. Just found her online exhibition "no adults allowed". Great stuff, young lady!

"Playgrounds at twilight: empty, lost, abandoned of their daily life force. Yet, there is the remenents, the obvious signs of use, and the ghosts of those that have been there. For all of my 'adult' life I have gone to playgrounds at night to think, reflect. Many hours have been spent on the tops of slides reflecting on the stars, swinging and working out the day’s trials and tribulations. On my relocation to New York I started to pay witness to the playgrounds in Manhattan. They are hidden in and amongst the labyrinth of cement and glass, they are in the corners of parks, they are on the edges of the island. Refuges of the childhoods for many who are growing up in the glare of this city, the playgrounds are also an obvious sign of the world we live in. Encircled in fences, gated, locked at night and with notices postedNo adults allowed unaccompanied by a child”. (Tamara Rafkin)

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