From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The July humidity clings to my heavy denim jacket as I duck into a shop to escape the glare, the grit of the sidewalk practically grinding under my boots. I’m adjusting the aperture on my Leica while a group of kids huddled around a translucent Bondi Blue iMac G3 argues over how to use some new gadget called Google Search to find cheat codes. One boy fumbles with a plastic Rio MP3 player, his fingers slipping over the slick casing as he complains that the storage is totally lame. Behind them, a row of Furbys sits on a shelf, their matted synthetic fur and cold plastic beaks twitching in a rhythmic, mechanical creep that makes my skin crawl.