From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The slush of March clings to the soles of my Reebok Classics as I frame a shot of a kid leaning against a storefront, looking absolutely fly in a heavy nylon flight jacket. He’s disregarding the drizzling sky to obsessively click the joints of a plastic Donatello, the neon green of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures popping against the gray, woolen textures of the passing crowd. I can almost feel the rigid, molded acetate of the toy in my own hands, a sharp contrast to the damp grit of my camera’s leather strap. There’s a weight in the air today, echoed in the heavy paper headlines at the kiosk, but for a second, it’s just the snap of my shutter capturing the sheen of rain on brick.