For Norman Garrett, his coming of age began at age 13 in city-wide photo contests in Brooklyn, New York.. In the past 30 years group and one-man shows acknowledged his photo-journalism as well as his art photography. His photo essays illustrating what President Reagan called “bombed out” South Bronx, teenagers in Harlem shooting heroin using home-made syringes, zombie-like residents of retirement communities in South Florida, poverty-stricken and homeless inhabitants of Brooklyn’s notorious Bedford-Stuyvesant and Redhook, bands of gypies migrating through Southern Albania, Vietnam Nam vets, turned baby boomer retirees riding $50,000 Harley's in Fort Lauderdale. Most notable was his photo-essay 76 JEFFERSON, revealing a group of squatter/artists living in a condemed tenement on Manhattan’s lower East Side...