Chrystofer Davis is an award-winning fine art photographer, professor, muralist, and filmmaker based in Newark, New Jersey. Influenced by street photography, portraiture, and contemporary culture, his work has been featured through collaborations with organizations including The New York Times, Disney, ABC News, Leica Camera, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The Newark Museum of Art. In 2019, Peerspace named him one of Newark’s five best fine art photographers, praising his ability to capture humanity through everyday life. In 2023, Davis received the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award. His work is archived in several prominent cultural institutions nationwide.
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In Newark, sound acts as both memory and connection, moving through storefront speakers, rehearsal spaces, sidewalks, churches, and recording studios. It lives in vinyl records, instrument cases, repair shops, and the exchange of secondhand equipment between musicians, collectors, and neighbors.

Music shops, record stores, instrument retailers, and repair spaces serve as living archives of the city ís creative culture. They preserve not only objects, but also traditions of listening, learning, improvisation, and community exchange. These spaces, and this installation reflect a culture of care where instruments are repaired instead of thrown away, records are rediscovered, and musical histories stay active through everyday use.

• Bunkr
  25 Halsey St., Lower Level
  bunkr225.square.site

• Grounded Music Education
  563 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd.
  groundedmusiceducation.com

• Memories of Soul
  211 Halsey St.

• More Now Records
  49 Halsey St.

• William S. Rich & Son
  857 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd.
  richandson.com