Raging fires and block-rockin’ parties: back to the Bronx – in pictures | Art and design

Roller skating dancers at street festival, Third Ave Hub, the Bronx, 1981

As a teenager, Conzo found himself at the very centre of cultural and activist movements changing the Bronx. His father was the personal confidant of Tito Puente, promoting some of the biggest salsa shows of that time; his grandmother, Evelina López Antonetty, was a community activist known as the Hell Lady of the Bronx; and Joe’s classmates at South Bronx high school were birthing the culture of hip-hop