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The Nork! Project will celebrate its five-year anniversary in November 2022. If you came across us early on, you have watched us grow from a scrappy startup. We first got our start selling stickers for a dollar at Military Park during Newark First Fridays’ Art Walk. We did that for two years while we learned to screenprint at the Newark Print Shop. If any of the ink on your canvas tote bags ran or your t-shirts began to fade from those days, it’s because we hand-printed those products with a softer ink while we were still wrapping our heads around...

Newark began for me on foot and photography has been an extension of my awareness, both physical and spiritual. The Nork! Photo Walk is a retreat, a walk I have already taken many times in my own city. It’s something I might do on any given Saturday afternoon, except this time accompanied by 180 people. The idea for the first photo walk came in September 2020. My good friend and avid Newark photographer Chrystofer Davis approached me about doing something for the anniversary of celluloid film being patented in Newark. Years ago I had been on one random photo walk with...