Tightly-cropped photograph of a Greek Revival limestone building in Park Slope, Brooklyn. On the left is a stoop leading up to the main entrance, which interestingly, is made of brownstone, while the rest of the building is limestone. On the right, there is some wrought-iron fencing in the foreground, which is topped by tasteful curved iron fleurets, which adds a bit of visual interest compared to the plain Doric columns behind the fencing. Obviously, Ionic columns, which are also topped with fleurets, would have been a better match for this fence.

Park Slope, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Close-up photograph of the front façade of a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. This is the curved front bay of the building. The bay has two windows, with an air conditioner sticking out of one of the windows, with curved wrought-iron bars to protect the window and the AC unit. The sunlight hits the curved surface at an acute angle, creating a chiaroscuro effect. The metal bars project an elaborate curved shadow along the front of the building. Below the window is a large ceramic planter, with dead plants in it, as this photo was taken in February.

Park Slope, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Photograph of a baby blue colored 1964 Ford Falcon, parked along Van Brundt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In the background behind the classic automobile is a wall covered in street art, depicting a psychedelic scene of plants and animals and eyeballs and disembodied hearts at night in fluorescent colors. Behind the wall is typical industrial Red Hook, with a backhoe sticking up over the wall.

Red Hook, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Tired dog during the Liverpool Chinese New Year celebrations
📷 Pentax 17 🎞 Kodak Ultramax 400
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Photograph of the underside of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, as it passes over the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. This photograph is an illustration of the boundless hubris of Robert Moses, as this behemoth of a viaduct passes through what was once a vibrant residential neighborhood, but is now a monument to a car culture that rains pollution down on the people on the ground below. The composition of this photo is meant to evoke Futurism, the fascist art movement, but instead of leading us to a glorious future of perfect machines, it shows the hollowness of that dream, as the structure is old, dirty, and is nearing the end of its useful lifespan. Two blocks from my apartment, another section of the BQE is literally on the verge of collapse. At any time the cantilever could become detached, and fall and lead to the death of dozens, if not hundreds of people, and cause tens of billions of dollars in damage. Yet redevelopment has been stalled for decades. The people of the city need to come to realization that automobiles in the big city was a terrible mistake, and all these highways just need to be torn down permanently.

Red Hook, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Close-up photograph of a shop window in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. The shop is closed; you can see that from the “CLOSED” sign hanging in the window. This shop has been closed for a long, long time. The windows are clouded over, and there is a towel and a couple of pieces of paper in the window. One of the papers is a piece of junk mail from the Century 21 real estate franchise, which hasn’t been an active business in the area for a couple of decades. The other piece of paper is covered with layers and layers of water stains which turns out to make a fascinating pattern, contributing heavily to the evocative wabi-sabi mood of the photograph. The window frame itself is made of old, rotten wood, and one might deduce from the towel and the water stains that the window is quite leaky. The window sill is a dented piece of sheet metal haphazardly nailed to the bottom of the window; again, probably, another feeble attempt to mitigate water damage. This is one of the most beautiful photographs I have ever taken, out of the tens of thousands of exposures I have made over my adult life.

Carroll Gardens, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

A person walking their dog crosses an intersection along the edge of a painted crosswalk, its lines distorted by the camera's swing lens.

Walking across a large intersection, its lines curved by camera distortion.

(updated to remove a scratch for real this time)

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Photograph of a storefront on the ground floor of brownstone in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. This storefront has been repurposed into an architect’s office, which we can discern by the word ARCHITECTS that has been painted on the front window. No name of the firm, just architects. The scene is bathed in sunlight, but the reflection of the sky in the window is gloomy and foreboding. Appropriate, since this photo was taken a few weeks before the COVID lockdown.

Carroll Gardens, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

A vendor sells buttons at a protest, decorated with a variety of anti-Trump sentiments and illustrations. The buttons are pinned to an umbrella, which is open in the middle of three directly viewing onlookers amidst a larger crowd.

A vendor sells and distributes anti-Trump buttons before the formal beginning of the Manhattan No Kings demonstrations.

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Photograph of the front of a Chinese take-out restaurant in the Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. The restaurant is closed, as this was taken at 11am, and the front is closed off with two drab grey rolling metal gates. In front of the gates hangs a bright red Chinese lantern. In between the two gates is a pamphlet dispenser with a stack of take-out menus, which have faded in the sun and shriveled in the rain.

Cobble Hill, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

A photographer stands atop a ledge to be able to raise themselves and their camera up above the heads of the thick crowd of protesters standing around them. Large buildings are visible behind the large mass of people, as are some of the trees on the outskirts of Central Park.

A photographer stands atop a ledge to elevate themselves and their camera above a thick crowd at the Manhattan No Kings demonstration.

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Photograph of the façade of a brick building in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. This is one of the buildings in the Cobble Hill Towers complex, which was built in 1879 as cheap housing for workers, but is now one of the most desirable places to live in New York City. Or at least it would be if it weren’t also next to the trench that Robert Moses dug for the BQE. Which mostly sucks, but it also ensures that these buildings get spectacular light in the early afternoon, as when this photo was taken. I find myself going back to this site to take photos quite often.

Cobble Hill, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

A person raises their phone to snap a picture of a large crowd of protesters demonstrating against the Trump administration in Columbus Circle.

A protester takes a photo with their phone of a crowd demonstrating in Columbus Circle against the Trump administration.

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A group of protesters stand on opposite sides of a line of shadow, with some speaking to lead the crowd and others watching and recording.

Protesters stand in two clusters, divided by a line of light and shadow. Some stand atop a dais, leading the crowd in chants and cheers.

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Photograph of a “temporary” plywood construction wall in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. Unlike most of these fences, which are painted a mandated hunter green, this has one panel painted a bright lime green, the other a dark grey. There is a shadow cast on the plywood, from a corner walk/don’t walk sign. There is a circular window cut out of the fence, and a local street artist has drawn a human figure around the window, with the circle as the head, making the figure look like an astronaut. The astronaut has words written on its chest: “I AM FROM THE FUTURE”, and a word balloon saying “IT WILL GET BETTER FOR AWHILE”. This photo was taken a couple of weeks before the COVID lockdown began. Next to this construction site is a nursing home, where over fifty people lost their lives in the early weeks of the pandemic. This site is a brownstone whose reconstruction has been stalled for a very long time. For over twenty years, the site has closed off with scaffolding and fencing. It’s still there is 2026, but the graffiti has long since been painted over. I still feel a lingering sense of resentment towards the li’l lying time traveler: I’m still waiting for things to get better.

Cobble Hill, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Flea market at Mauerpark

📷 Leica M2, Summilux 35mm F/1.4 ASPH pre-FLE
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400, developed in Cinestill Cs41

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A street chess player in Union Square gestures at passerby in an attempt to entice someone to sit at their chess player and play a game. Three people walk by to the right without a second look, with another person walking out of frame to the left. The large circular subway awning covering the southwest entrance to the Union Square subway station is visible in the background.

Trying to draw attention for a chess match at their table.

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Photograph of the side entrance to a home in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn. The house is clad in off-white vinyl siding, and the sunlight creates an interesting pattern of shadows on the horizontal slats. The doorway has a screen door, and is covered with an aluminum awning, which also has a pattern of horizontal slats which are the exact same shade of off-white, but with a little bit of blue trim. There is also a window, which has venetian blinds, also off white, whose narrow horizontal pattern breaks up the wider horizontal pattern of the siding. To keep the photograph from being entirely a monotonous assault of off-white horizontal lines, there is a wooden bench underneath the window. In the foreground is a short black chainlink fence, whose diamond pattern melds into the rest of the abstract patterns of the photograph.

Kensington, 2026 #Brooklyn #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Not prepared for the humidity and heat of Thailand, but had fun nonetheless!

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A pair of people on a bicycle-- one on the seat, the other straddling the rear wheel on a rack-- stop in front of a streetside seller of art in Union Square. Both point at pieces on display as a stream of people move by in the background.

Taking a moment to look at some art.

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Some last shots in HK, from city streets to our day trip on Lantau Island. 🪷

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Photograph of the side of a residential building in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn. The brick foundation of the building is painted a shade of olive-green, while the rest of the building above is clad in wooden shingles, painted a shade of mint-green. Appropriate, since this home is located on Greenwood Avenue. What makes the street name even more appropriate, is the homeowners obvious love of gardening. The side of the home is covered in vines, although the vines are bare, since this photo was taken in February. In front of the vines are stems covered in thorns, which are from rose bushes. This site will turn into a lush green oasis in the spring and summer. Also leaning against the building is a trellis for vines to grow on. Oddly, even though this scene has vines snaking through it everywhere, there are no vines growing on the trellis; they’re all attached to the building behind the it. The trellis seems to be undergoing some sort of existential crisis.

Windsor Terrace, 2026 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

Two workers slide metal barricades aside to open a roadway near Madison Square Garden. The two are moving in opposite directions, with one facing towards the camera and the other turned away.

Sliding barricades aside to open the way.

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"Groß und Klein"
( #FromTheArchives 2019)

Die "Costa Classica", fotografiert auf #KodakUltramax400 Farbnegativ, heftig gekörnt umentwickelt in Fomadon LQN #SchwarzWeiß Chemie.😊

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A small crowd gathers around a facilities worker using a long flexible rod to attempt to retrieve jewelry that has fallen underneath a grate near the Madison Square Garden building. A new onlooker arrives from the right of the frame.

Onlookers gather around a facilities worker attempting to use a pole to retrieve jewelry that has fallen beneath a grate (they got it, everyone clapped).

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Another photograph of the front façade of a home in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. This home is clad in Formstone, which is stucco shaped to look like brick. Whoever applied the Formstone on this building went a little wild, making it a surface covered with rectangular faux bricks of all shapes and sizes, creating an abstract pattern which resembles a Mondrian painting, if Piet Mondrian had worked in earth-tones instead of primary colors. It pushes the presumption of brickness to its limit; if this building had been built with actual bricks of these shapes, it obviously would have quickly collapsed. The front window, which has a venetian blind in the background, has a 2000s-vintage webcam hanging in it, with a daisy chain of USB cables stringing back to its source. It also has a small religious tchotchke of fake stained glass, depicting a scene of a woman praying to an angel. Perhaps she is Jeanne d'Arc? It’s hard to tell, as the resolution of 35mm film makes it difficult to examine the item closely.

Sunset Park, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

A trio of vehicles-- two cars and an electric bike-- make a sharp left turn through an intersection, crossing over the crosswalks as they go. Slightly distorted buildings fall away from a visible corner in the background.

Taking a sharp left turn.

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Photograph of the front stoop of a house in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. The building is clad in vinyl siding, colored mint green. The doorway is covered with an aluminum awning, colored dark olive green. And the door is wooden, with some tasteful circular patterns carved into it, but it’s painted a bright blue. In short, this is one of the most godawful palettes of clashing colors I have ever encountered in my 10+ years of documenting the vernacular architecture of New York City. It’s made even worse because you can see glimpses of the building next door—which has yellow bricks and red ceramic roof tiles, which makes this building feel even more out of place. Hooray for this building! I would readily take a thousand of these buildings in bold clashing colors than I would the soulless monochromatic architecture that is constantly inflicted upon us, that slowly sucks the life out of all of us.

Sunset Park, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400

A small group of performers prepare for a routine, ringed by a large crowd of onlookers in Times Square.

Preparing for a routine in the middle of a ring of onlookers.

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Photograph of the front façade and stoop of a building in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. The bricks of the building a dull yellow-white, and the window sills, the stoop, and the columns flanking the doorway are a dull powder blue. The sunlight shining on the building from an acute angle gives the building a quiet, ghostly appearance, as if the building wants to fade into the background and disappear entirely. There are DOB construction permits in the window, indicating that one of more of the apartments inside are undergoing renovation. In front of the building, next to the stoop is a bathtub resting on its side, seemingly being disposed of as part of said renovation. We can’t see if the tub had clawfeet or not; if it did, it would likely have gotten snatched up by some entrepreneur who could have restored it and sold it at a huge profit. In front of the bathtub is a blue bicycle, chained to the stoop.

Sunset Park, 2020 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400