Older work

[Ossi Raimi]

Here are some my older street photos.....

Comments and critique welcome, even hoped.......
Thanks for watching!

 

[Andrew Gould]

The first is quite fascinating with that anonymous passerby in the foreground. The second shares a bit of the same feeling due to the way you've chosen to show the accordionist incomplete. These are my favourites in this series, then.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Here are some my older street photos.....

This is an interesting and remarkably coherent series. There's a motif of only displaying half of things. The interesting derivative is that who don't know the half of other people problems! So we see the man leading the series, only slightly disclosed as he is exiting the right of the frame. The man with a cane is only partly O.K. He can walk but with a cane and some difficulty. The young man staring across the street is only half here with us in this scene, his mind seems far away.

In this following picture we have sufficient disclosed to know the man plays the accordion for tips to be thrown in his hat.

Folk nearby can at the best, be only partly appreciating his music as some have their backs to him! Maybe baldheaded man, who's face we cannot see, is at least listening or maybe he has his own hat and sign asking for contributions.

Thanks for bring us this set of pictures. Yes they work without much introduction. Still it would be nice to know how you came to take them and what camera and film/digital you might have used, if you can remember!

Asher

 

[Ossi Raimi]

Still it would be nice to know how you came to take them and what camera and film/digital you might have used, if you can remember!

Asher

OK, a little information about these: First they have been made for my first "Streets of Helsinki" exhibition (sometimes early 80's at The museum of Photography, Finland). I had less than a year to take all needed photos, and I managed ti take them. If I remember right I had some 40-50 photos for exhibition.
Camera was Nikon F3, or Nikon F2, or Minolta XE-7, most probably they've been taking with wideangle (24, or 28mm), film was Ilford FP or something...
My target was to show that "not so nice" side of living in Helsinki ... at same time I got also cityscapes, those have been in exhibition in Hungary (by the Culture Ministration of Peoples Republic of Hungary) ....

Here's some examples of those cityscapes:

and another:

thanks for comments!!