From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The bass from a passing Jeep is rattling my viewfinder as "Jump" blares loud enough to shake the grit off these Manhattan storefronts. I’m framing a shot of a businessman in a boxy suit crumpling his copy of the **BUSINESS DIGEST** with a look of pure panic, likely sweating over those fluctuating interest rates while a kid in sagged jeans struts past him looking totally phat. The air tastes like taxi exhaust and cheap street pretzels, a frantic hum that feels like we’re all just flickering signals lost in some vast, new-age cyberspace. I click the shutter on a woman clutching a stuffed Barney doll like a shield, her heels clicking a rhythmic staccato against the concrete symphony of 1992.