Codename: Pink Tuba Fire…
Welcome to the first installment of a new weekly feature here on Scholars & Rogues. It’s an ongoing showcase of photographs from my growing body of photojournalism and street photography work, featuring what I think are the best and/or most interesting photos I shot during a given week. I hope you enjoy my work, or get some value from it, and will come back here each week to see how I’ve been seeing our world.
Here we go…
- On Tuesday I unintentionally unnerved this adorable little girl who was walking past my house with her grandmother…
- On Wednesday there was this kid in a shopping cart at a Japanese supermarket in San Mateo where my wife and I were getting some groceries…
- On Thursday Brisbane’s only public house, the Brisbane Inn, caught fire on the top floor and burned for a while. See more photographs of the incident here.
- On Saturday I encountered this fuzzy pink kid at the public unveiling of a raccoon statue in a small park here in Brisbane. You can also see this photo in this collection…
- Also on Saturday, I came across tuba player rehearsing in a shopping center parking with his banda group for a gig they were playing later in the evening…
And that’s it for this week. Until next seek see my other work here and here.
Remember: people and the world are more beautiful, odd, and interesting than you think. You just have to stop and look long enough to notice.
Categories: ArtSunday, My Week of Shooting, Photography
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I predictably love this set (except for the pub burning – that’s a fucking tragedy). But the little girl in the headdress – that look on her face is the look of a kid who has IT.
I think that look is one only a child who is very wanted and loved and feels free to be who they are can have. At least that was the sense I got from her.
Or it could be she’s just naturally not afraid of tall, overweight, somewhat thug-like photographers. Who knows?
Oddly, it wasn’t the full shot that grabbed me. It was the crop for the slider, which dials in tight on her eyes and her smile. From there I went back to the full image and that love/wanted thing you can see surrounding her. That was the context and the eyes and smile were the signal, I think.