© Leland Bobbé

With the recent launch of my new website I re-edited my collection of street photography from NYC in the mid-1970’s. Looking at this collection of images it struck me once again how much this city has changed since then. Personally I found the old city much more exciting and edgy and wish the current NYC had a bit more of the old. This shot was taken on 8th Ave. just north of infamous 42nd street. This stretch of 8th Ave used to be called the Minnesota Strip because of all the runaways form the mid-west that ended up there as prostitutes. Shot from the hip while walking with a pre-focused 28mm lens on my Nikon FM with Tri-X film.

I am now collaborating with Julie Grahame of aCurator Magazine on a feature which will be coming out soon.

9AM © Leland Bobbé

This shot was taken on a cold winter morning into a fogged up small coffee shop. I’ve always been attracted to street  photography that is somewhat non-literal and in this case I was attracted to the partially obscured face. This was actually taken on film and the yellow on the left side of the image is from a flash of light caused when the back my old Nikon FM opened up for a second. What could have been the end of the shot in my opinion actually added to it. This shot along with 2 others of mine will be appearing in a book being published by Photo District News from the NYC Photobook contest.