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My Music Video Featured in Pro Photo Daily

My music video was just featured in today’s issue of Pro Photo Daily. Music and lyrics by me.

2020/NYC Covid Lockdown photos by me /BLM Demonstrations and post election photos by Mychal Watts

all credits at the end of the video

Tags: Black & White Photography, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Covid Lockdown, New York Street Photography, Public Isolation NYC, Rock and Roll
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April 5th, 2022

Interview in aPhotoEditor Blog

Black Swan ©Leland Bobbé

aPhotoEditor just ran an interview with me about my early work on their blog. Questions about how i went about creating this work and what I’m doing currently.

Tags: Black & White Photography, New York City 1970's, On location, Street Photography
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February 22nd, 2022

Winners in the Black and White Spider Awards

This is one of 2 images that were winners in the Black and White Spider Awards people category. These images were both part of my Public Isolation series shot on the streets of NYC during the Pandemic lockdown.

Tags: Black & White Photography, Corona Virus, Covid-19, New York Street Photography, On location, Pandemic
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December 9th, 2020

More From My Series Public Isolation NYC

I stood in the same spot for about 40 minutes focused on this background waiting for people too walk by. On a normal day there would have been too many people but during the lockdown in NYC there were so few people on the streets. I set my camera on high speed continues and when an interesting person walked by I was able to bang off at least 5-6 shots. This woman was by far my favorite.

Tags: Black & White Photography, Coronavirus, Covid-19, New York Street Photography, Pandemic, Public Isolation NYC, Street Photography
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July 2nd, 2020

Corona NYC

I haven’t posted anything here since the Corona Virus lockdown, I’ve been working on a series of black and white street photography of single people wearing masks in otherwise empty environments. This is my most recent. I’ll keep posting these here.

Tags: Black & White Photography, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Street Photography
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May 20th, 2020

Museum of The City of New York

Tonight I’l be attending a private opening at the Museum of the City of New york titled “Collecting New York Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious”drawn from hundreds of additions to the museum’s permanent collection over the past few years.Two of my photographs will be included. Show is up through the end of the year.

Tags: Black & White Photography, Museum of the City of New York, Street Photography, Times Square
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January 21st, 2020

My New Music Video “Click Click”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaQ26UWJswQ

Most of you know me as a photographer but back in the day i played drums in bands with my dear friend John Berenzy. I started playing bass a bit over 3 years ago and have been writing and recording. I wrote this song about my street photography in NYC in the 70’s, what the city was like then and what it’s like now. Along with my photos I see it as a rock ‘n roll documentary. If you like it please share . . .

Tags: Black & White Photography, Music Video, New York Street Photography, Rock and Roll
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July 17th, 2019

Presentation at Soho Photo Gallery

I’ll be giving a presentation tonight, May 30th at 6pm at the Soho Photo Gallery at 15 White Street in Manhattan,

I’ll be discussing my photo projects along with a digital slide presentation.

Tags: Black & White Photography, Half-Drag, Neo-Burlesque, New York City Wall Art, New York Portrait Photographer, New York Street Photography, On location, Real People, Studio Portrait, Subway, Underground NYC, Urban Art, Women of Fifth Avenue
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May 30th, 2019

Black and White Portrait

I originally shot this portrait in color eleven years ago for Getty Images. I just rediscovered it and was curious to see what it would look like in black and white. Using Topaz software I made the conversion and really am pleased with the results. I just entered this into Lens Culture’s Black and White Awards.

Tags: Black & White Photography, New York Portrait Photographer, Real People, Studio Portrait
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October 31st, 2018

Two Of My Images In A Feature Film

I just licensed these 2 images for inclusion in a feature film based on the James Baldwin novel “If Beale Street Could Talk”, about a couple in Harlem in the 1970’s in NYC. The film’s director is Barry Jenkins who Directed Best Picture winner Moonlight. It will be premiered at the next NY Film Festival.

Tags: Black & White Photography, IF Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin, New York Street Photography, Street Photography
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August 9th, 2018