Grand Central Terminal by Sylwia Kapuscinski

Grand Central Terminal

Arts and Entertainment, Honorable Mention prize stories

1998

Sister Jessica (11) on the cello and brother Daniel (13) also on violin, join Pierre playing in the subway station of the Grand Central terminal to raise money to attend a summer music camp. Violinist Pierre Constant (14) is the first African-American to receive a scholarship from the pre-college division at the Juilliard School of music. He is also already in his second year at the New York City Technical College. In between studies he manages five hours' rehearsal a day. Pierre is the oldest of three musicians in the Constant family.

Commissioned by: for Double Take Magazine

Location: New York City, USA

Photo Credit: Sylwia Kapuscinski

Sylwia Kapuscinski was born in Krosno, Poland, in 1972. At the age of 12, she moved with her twin sister to the United States. Sylwia studied photojournalism and advertising photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. Sylwia has worked as a staff photographer at Detroit Free Press, Naples Daily News, and as an intern at National Geographic Magazine and Concord Monitor. Her work has been published in Double Take, New York Times Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and newspapers throughout the United States. She has received awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of The Year, The Best of Photojournalism, Society for News Design, The Association for Women in Communications, Scripps Howard Publishing, and The Michigan Press Photographers Association.