We’ve posted about this before, but it’s such a wonderful project and the organizer, Harriet Zucker, has done such wonderful work in the Red Hook community and in rescuing the Revere Sugar Dogs, that we’re posting a reminder. The community-based photo project called “What’s the Hook?” kicks off on Sunday, August 12 and will run for a week. Photographers are invited to shoot photos of Red Hook and to submit them to What’s the Hook. They’ll be displayed in venues around Red Hook. Full info is available at the What’s the Hook? website. Here’s some of the email from Ms. Zucker about the effort:

“What’s The Hook” is a community based photography project designed to document one week in the life of Red Hook, Brooklyn, one of New York
City’s most unique and rapidly changing neighborhoods. Open to locals and visitors alike, “What’s The Hook” encourages photographers of all backgrounds to submit digital images captured during the week of August 12th – 18th. This week has been selected as it begins with Red Hook Old Timer’s Day, an annual event at Red Hook Housing (link to article from B61) that has been going on for more than 30 years.

The images produced during August 12th – 18th will be accessible on a dedicated website soon after the photographs have been submitted, and representative photos will be printed and displayed in a wide variety of Red Hook venues during the Fall and Winter of 2007 – 2008.

“What’s The Hook?” encourages submissions from photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels. “What’s the Hook?” hopes to feature images from every possible time of day, angle of vantage, and facet of life that exists in Red Hook.

What’s the Hook is sponsored in part by the Greater NY Development Fund of the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Head over to What’s the Hook for all the info you need. Please participate. Red Hook is changing quickly, and all the photos will be part of an invaluable historical record.