Fletcher Street is your usual downtown Philadelphia ghetto, with one difference: horses. For the last 50 years, the neighbourhood has kept and ridden horses, converting dilapidated factories into unlikely stables for thoroughbreds left over from the racing tradition that flourished in the area after the Second World War.
New York Times photographer Martha Camarillo was intrigued: "I'd never seen that combination before: black American youth and horses. It breaks the John Wayne myth". It took her two years to befriend and photograph the tight-knit community of urban cowboys. Her study may the last of its kind, though, as rampant gentrification swallows up this strangest of pony clubs.
Elaine Hake
Fletcher Street is published by powerHouse books (£24.99)
