Talk about timing! A photographer outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse last month managed to snap a romantic picture of a couple being brought into the courthouse in handcuffs.
Photographer Mo Gelber submitted this photograph entitled “Last Kiss,” in a contest organized by Ron Howard and Canon, but found out he may not be eligible because the people in the photo weren’t identified. Gelber turned to the Internet, and it wasn’t too long after he posted the picture on Facebook that he was able to reach 28-year-old Alexis Creque, the girlfriend in the picture. She explained that she and her boyfriend were in the middle of a graffiti spree and her boyfriend was still in jail, but agreed to allow Gelber to use their likeness as soon as her boyfriend is released.
The photography contest, Project Imagination, reached its submission deadline on Saturday, but the winner is yet to be announced.
What do you think of this photograph, Lovelies?
magnolia / 1027 posts
It’s cute, in a sort of Bonnie and Clyde kind of way…? lol. That’s the best I can explain it.
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Love it!
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Hahahaha, I actually love this. It’s so perfect xD
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who is looking at the kiss when she isn’t wearing a bra
Braless Felon.
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Yes, how romantic, kissing each other after you’ve graffitied people’s property and broken the law
peony / 1 posts
Last Kiss? what are they being led into death row? They’ll be out in time. Not really a big impact this photo has.
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Some trashy people are being arrested for vandalism. How is this news/romantic?
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@SexyTall@xanga - How do they look trashy? Is romance only valid when the two people are deemed as classy or otherwise decidedly “un-trashy”? I am curious.
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Nevermind the picture, why is that bitch free while her boyfriend is still in jail??? So typical! You sure as shit don’t see any feminist protesting for equal rights in situations like this!
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I’m laughing so hard and I can’t stop. Oh god.
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@sarahsmurfette@xanga - Nice! So you smoke crack THEN get on lovelyish, or do you smoke your crack once you have logged in? Just curious. You seem have found the perfect recipe for sounding like a crazy bitch, so I would just like to know your meathod.
Just kidding. You’re kind of hot!
-Papa Smurf
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Did you look into this story very much? When I read the headliner about it a few days ago on Yahoo, the bigger story to me was the photographer who took the photo trying so hard to get the guy’s identity because he wants to be able to win this contest.
There is a big push to get the guy out of jail, since the female won’t release her permission or his name until her summertime boyfriend is released. She was his lookout while he, a locally known graffiti artist, was the actual culprit. That, @amateurprose@xanga , is why she is out of jail and he is not. And if I were him, I’d be super aggravated that she was such a crappy lookout.
Meanwhile, the photographer is so desperate to get the guy’s release that if he finds out the guy’s name, he’s willing to go to jail for it. “I will bring the release form to Rikers if I have to,”
AND THAT, my friends, is real story reporting. You’re welcome.
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@amateurprose@xanga - Man, I saw your partial response on my email (I didn’t click all the way in and instead just came straight here cuz I was like wth?) and I was totally ready to defend myself saying something like, “all I tried to do was give a little more of the story.”
…and then I got to the just kidding.
You got me.
Unless you’re just saying “just kidding” to soften up your true assessment, but then if I read into all that, it really would make me a crazy bitch. In which case, you got me again.
Genius comment.