Category: Broadway

Cool Papa Club

75th St and Broadway, New York

As soon as I was done taking a portrait of men delivering a display case or machine to the Fairway on Broadway, this gentleman called out to me from his car and started talking to me a mile a minute about the excellence of his baklava. He talked non-stop, showing me pictures on his phone of people who weren’t even Greek, who just loved the baklava. Eventually a colleague came out of the Fairway and got in the back seat while he continue his breathless, unbroken litany of the global lovers of baklava. His driver waited with growing impatience until a breath was drawn and I said, “it looks like you’re ready to go,” thanked him for talking with me and, showing great relief, the driver pulled away.

Helado

86th St and Broadway, New York

Another candidate image for On Broadway, these women were selling what we used to call Spanish ices from a sun-shaded cart on the corner.

Back in Brighton (well, Hove actually) since Friday, but still have some more NY pictures to work through before we get back to UK photos.

Florist

92nd St and Broadway, New York

I returned to my series on people working On Broadway while I was in New York. For this shot I wanted to capture the apple display outside, but the light and reflections weren’t working for me. Eventually I went inside for a portrait which will appear in On Broadway in due course.

Birdman

Back from my travels. Over the next week or so, I’ll be posting snapshots from my travels in New York and Chicago. This was a trip to catch up with friends and family and take care of NY personal business. So it was extremely fulfilling in those areas, not so productive on the photography front.

57th St and Broadway, New York

My current ethics of photography do not really include taking shots of people in the street without their consent and/or collaboration. In this case, I crouched down in front of him so he knew I was there and tourists were clearly photographing him with their phones from bad vantage points, and he was not complaining so I took it he was tacitly consenting. I will probably post a few other street shots over the coming days from this trip that contravene this personal rule of mine, where, for one reason or another, I felt taking the shot was validated in some way – we shall see…