Category: street photography
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are, bure, boke #1
The Japanese photographers associated with the Provoke group, whose best-known member was Daido Moriyama, espoused an aesthetic of “Are, Bure, Boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus.” There can be many reasons for blurry images – too low a shutter speed, too wide an aperture, camera shake, reflections, errors in focusing, a dirty lens – but the…
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politics
Photographs taken in a covered market in Sevilla, May 2018. How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics, Yet here’s a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there’s a politician That has both read and thought, And maybe what they say…
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horizontals #1
CaixaForum, Sevilla, May 2018. Sevilla, May 2018. Bus station, bar, and Plaza de España. Madrid, May 2018. Two of these photographs were taken at the CaixaForum on the Paseo del Prado, the rest in nearby back streets. Mexico City, February 2019. The highway to Teotihuacán. Mexico City, February 2020. 4th + 5th images shot at…
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not dark yet
A handful of mostly joyful images captured on a 1 megapixel first generation Sony digital camera on a visit to New York City a year before 9–11 changed everything. We stayed in the trendy Hudson Hotel on West 58th Street, then newly remodeled by Philippe Starck.
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Prague after COVID
These photos were taken in Prague between August 15–25, 2021. Travel had just reopened after the first wave of the COVID–19 pandemic. The streets were eerily empty. Though social life was tentatively starting to resume, the economic devastation is palpable, the sadness overwhelming. Old Town/Staré Město Old Town (#1 + 2 Jilská, #3 Na Perštýně)…
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Brick Lane, 2015
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched over the years gentrify with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on June 20, 2015.
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DC memory
I have no memory whatsoever of the circumstances in which I shot these decidedly surreal images, but they were taken in Washingston D.C., in August 2012.
Camera lucida 