OjO Latino is a series by Néstor Sánchez Cordero. This week features the Caribbean Day parade. Néstor says, “Images are around, the secret is to catch them at the right moment and with the right light…”
Two more striking photos after the jump. These are the final photos from the parade! (more…)
I posted some of my photos here but, as expected, you guys left me in the dust. Above is from arisenders.
Great one are from quigley_brown
I love the one above from DC Liz.
The above two great ones are from quigley_brown.
chambergirl1 captured this great costume.
Well a reader couldn’t wait until Monday so here ya go. How was your experience? I didn’t stay for the mud people this year but my favorite part was still the big 18 wheelers filled with speakers. So good. Submit your photos of the parade via email or to the PoPville flickr pool here.
This year the street was more closed off than last year but after a while the barricades were crossed.
I’m not sure what part of the caribbean these folks were representing:
Lot of amazing costumes of course:
Lots more after the jump. (more…)
Matt Dunn, originally from the Bronx, NY, lives in Shaw and has been a freelance photographer since June 2000. Matt’s work has been published in the New York Times, Spin Magazine, Mother Jones, Washington City Paper and other publications. He has work on photo projects internationally in Haiti, Cuba, India and Uganda.
The series of portraits are all from 2009 and loosely called “TOUGH”, in a homage to NY street photographers Joel Meyerowitz and Gary Winogrand.
In the book “Bystander: A History of Street Photography”, Joel Meyerowitz talks about shooting with Gary Winogrand.
Meyerowitz talks about what makes an image “Tough”.
“Tough” was a term we used to use a lot. Stark, spare, hard, demanding, tough: these were the values that we applied to the act of making photographs.
Tough meant the image was uncompromising. It was something made out of your guts, out of your instinct, and it was unwieldy in some way, not capable of being categorized by ordinary standards. So it was tough. It was tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to draw meaning from. It wasn’t what most photographs looked like. … It was a type of picture that made you uncomfortable sometimes. You didn’t quite understand it. It made you grind your teeth.
At the same time, though you knew it was beautiful, because tough also meant that – it meant beautiful too. … The two words – “tough” and “beautiful” –became synonyms somehow. They were what street photography was all about.
Final portrait after the jump. (more…)
This cool shot is from, the thankfully prolific, lmno.p who adds some colorful commentary to the title, “4th Street, NW”:
“The transvestites used to take their johns here and conduct business in the basement. I hope they aren’t getting ready to tear it down, it still stands proud after all its neighbors have left.”
It appears to be from the 1200 block of 4th Street, NW.
Submit your photos via email or to the PoPville flickr pool here.
OjO Latino is a series by Néstor Sánchez Cordero. (more…)
I’ve really enjoyed noticing cool aspects of otherwise normal looking scenes lately. I really like how the stairs were framed by the doorway of the garage.
Well this one stumped me. But I thought this was a super cool photo. A reader was curious if anyone could guess where it is. At the next PoP happy hour, I’ll give a free t-shirt to the first one who gets it.
Super cool.
Thankfully I spotted this sign at the Florida Avenue Grill at 11th and Florida. I am very seriously tempted to purchase this one though…