Telling a story.

The process of processing. Getting drawn into the world of the captured.

I have always loved street photography, the candid, and the other worlds of others. I do this as a blogger, incorporating where I go and what I see into a world for the viewer.

Recently at the Museum of the City of New York I saw an exhibit of Jacob Riis’s heart-gripping photography from the late 1800s and on. Riis was so taken by the way the poor lived–rather existed– in the city that he was compelled to photograph every example he could. Though he was not a photographer by profession, and sometimes he had others photograph for him, he became well-known, documenting “the other half.”

Outside of the exhibit there is an introductory wall with a bench in front of it.
On the far left is a glass box with Riis’s original equipment. But it was the words…

I took my first shot to get a feel of light and I knew right away what I wanted: the kid on the end. I waited for the left side to clear and began my hunt.

In post processing with Snapseed, many times over, I gradually cropped, adjusted light, darkened the floor. The words are needed to show the irony of the photo. I left the man in color as he is living, the ghosts are behind him, they were known criminals and thieves as documented.

And there sits the young man, still looking at his phone at this great exhibit.

Find the ghost.