From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The damp morning air clings to the rough wool of my jacket as I crouch on the sidewalk, my fingers fumbling with the cold brass of my shutter. I focus my lens on a young boy sitting in the dirt, his small, chapped hands carefully stacking notched redwood Lincoln Logs into a miniature cabin while his mother marches past him. She clutches a "votes for women" placard, the stiff canvas snapping in the wind as she avoids the puddles. It is a sharp, textured scene of progress and play, far removed from the headlines of slaughter and wire-mesh fences currently bleeding across the morning papers.