All posts tagged: Jaime Rojo

We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Somewhere along the King’s Road, punk hardened into a classic ‘look’ – or dictionary of ‘looks’. Stripped of its insurgent force by decades of commercial smoothing, anarchy in the UK became as defiant as a Disney cartoon. Yet on a brisk late-summer evening this year, a red-mohawked youth stomped to his own march toward modernity on a Brooklyn street. Provocative or a unique stab at self-expression, this lad appeared to have a presence and resolve. Alternatively, he could have been late to the film set as an extra in a 1970s drama for Netflix.

We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

First thing on a Friday morning in the city, you might be hustling to the subway, walking a kid to school, or juggling coffee and a cranky toddler. Or, depending on the calendar, you might be lighting a small fire on the sidewalk.

On the morning before Passover, Hasidic Jews in a few Brooklyn neighborhoods complete a religious ritual called biur chametz, the final removal of leavened food, traditionally by burning it before a specific hour. Fire here isn’t ceremonial or dramatic—it’s practical, deliberate, and brief – but there is always an audience. In a place like Brooklyn, that can mean flames and smoke billowing on the concrete, neighbors pausing, kids watching from a distance, a couple of cops standing by, and a whiff of smoke cutting across the usual mix of languages, routines, and lives—an ancient practice carried out calmly in the middle of a very modern city.

We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Selected by our readers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

As the year comes to a close, this image calls to mind many trips—across the country and abroad—that allowed us to report the stories that connected with us and with you. Street art is alive and part of the visual experience of cities around the world, shaped by culture, a multitude of histories, and the exigencies of daily life. We’re fortunate to document it firsthand and share those encounters with you.