SPAZIO MAIOCCHI / SLAM JAM: 'ONCE UPON A HOOD'

SPAZIO MAIOCCHI / SLAM JAM: 'ONCE UPON A HOOD'

Exhibition

Information

Opening Reception:
13 March 2026, 7-10 PM

Exhibition Continues:
Until 14 March 2026, 10 AM-6 PM

Spazio Maiocchi
Via Achille Maiocchi, 7
20129 Milano

Description

On Friday, 13 March Slam Jam and 550BC present “Once Upon a Hood”, a photographic exhibition following the self titled book curated by Pouria Khojastehpay.

This photo book presents a rare physical private California gang archive of original analog photographs and Polaroids spanning from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Taken inside California prisons and across everyday life, these photographs document gang identity, relationships, and survival through portraits, group shots, family pictures, and handwritten messages never meant for public view.

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550BC is an independent publishing house based in Amsterdam, founded in 2018. Specializing in the complex realities of organized crime and conflict, we explore these subjects through the lens of visual anthropology. Our photo books provide rare, first-person perspectives from within otherwise inaccessible worlds, often created in direct collaboration with those involved.

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