New York

Shadows

These images shot from a kitchen window in New York in July just turned up on a camera I haven’t used since then.

La Danse

After dinner on my final night in New York with primary school classmates, we exited the Baylander and were met with a dance video being made.

Cotton Club

125th St under Riverside Drive, New York

Just imported the first set of images from my camera since returning to England and discovered a couple of last day stragglers from New York.

Not the “The Cotton Club [that] was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City… located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. [That] club operated during the United States’ era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club.” more at Wikipedia.

What YSL stands for?

‘Jesus’ is Latin for the Hebrew ‘Yeshua.’
I can only guess Jews for Jesus are active in the unlikely terrain of East Harlem.

To Be Frank

Speed the Plough

Olympic

Fluffy Geodesic Portal

Aqualounge

with apologies to Jethro Tull

Cool Papa Club

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.

After Glow

A few days after taking this picture the situation had changed.

Helado

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.

Chillin’

Shooting for my series, On Broadway, I met these gentlemen. I later pulled back to add a third friend to the picture, which will probably make it into the final version.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used

Quotation attributed to Haruki Murakami.

The Thing with Feathers

Florist

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.

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