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Miss Norway Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
April 04, 2009
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Bay Ridge used to be a Norwegian neighborhood. Most immigrants form Scandinavia worked as seamen and shipbuilders.
I had to shoot the Miss Norway of Greater New York.
Many elderly people born in Norway and proud of their heritage. The contestants looked more like Americans from the midwest and spoke no Norwegian language with the exception of one girl wearing a traditional dress.
I photographed this man wearing a Norwegian flags tie and his wife with make up painted eye brows.
She threw a tantrum at him because she did not want to be in the picture.
More info about Norwegians in Bay Ridge
