In 1986 Anders Goldfarb moved to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, joining a growing number of young artists seeking the low rents of what was then a declining neighbourhood of light industrial buildings and working-class homes. With black-and-white film and a medium-format Rolleiflex he began photographing Williamsburg and Greenpoint in 1987, riding his bike around the area in search of the peculiar beauty of sidings, peeling paint and razor wire. His photographs are a valuable historical record of these neighbourhoods before demolition and gentrification, and their subjects are metaphors for loss and vulnerability.