From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The July sun bakes the sidewalk, and I catch the glare off a shop window displaying that new pop-up toaster that’s supposed to save your breakfast from a lousy char. I can hear a neighbor’s shortwave radio crackling through an open window, buzzing with static and talk of the League of Nations while the rhythmic, blue hiss of arc welding rings out from the repair shop down the block. Fingers trembling with the humidity, I adjust my lens as a woman in a heavy linen skirt pauses to watch a child chasing a cluster of soap bubbles drifting over the cobblestones. I press the shutter just as a newsie screams about the Senate fight in Washington, his voice cutting through the clatter of a passing horse-drawn cart.