From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The roar of the Elevated overhead nearly drowns out a newsboy shouting about the New Haven line cutting trains, but I’m focused on a young woman in a wool drop-waist dress stepping through the steam of a sewer grate. She’s clutching a brand-new Raggedy Andy doll for her kid, its red yarn hair a shock of color against the gritty, soot-stained brick of the alleyway. I’ve got a serious crush on the way the morning light hits the silver trim of a passing Packard, shimmering just as the upbeat brass of "The Sheik of Araby" drifts out from a nearby social club. I frame the shot, capturing the sharp crease of a businessman’s trousers before the city noise swallows the shutter’s click.