Ash "Smashley" Thayer

Photog Extraordinaire !

Her 1990s Lower Eastside Squatter Photos are collected in her new book Kill City. 

This is the blurb that I wrote for the jacket flap.

Smashley was armed with a camera and was part of our disheveled trip of misfits toiling away relentlessly in dimly lit and dangerous abandoned buildings during the turbulent 1990s. Her photographs capture the beautiful resilience, defiant optimism, and astounding feats of reconstruction as we all struggled to move mountains of rubble to build a better life"