Every day for the past nine years, the Instagram account Everyday Bronx has posted an image that captures some sense of the borough. There are pictures of people playing basketball, cinematic shots of the greenery in a park, and countless images of community members walking past a favorite bodega, catching the train or crowding into a church.
On Friday, an exhibition featuring more than 250 images from the account will open at the Bronx Documentary Center. An opening reception that evening will include music, breakdancing and graffiti art, emphasizing the borough’s contributions to hip-hop as the genre’s 50th anniversary draws near.
Rhynna Santos, who launched Everyday Bronx in 2014, says the account is meant to dispel negative impressions about the borough. “We really want to basically show the uniqueness and diversity and complexity that's in the Bronx, that you don't usually see because we've been maligned with so many horrific negative stereotypes throughout the decades,” Santos said. “I want to try to do something to show the opposite of that – to show the reality of what it is to live here.”
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