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NYC, The Tomb, Electronics Store… Running From The Police

By keith
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September 23, 2010
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[audio:100922-2.mp3] I usually don’t do these blogs during a day like this but there’s just so much action out here on 31st and 6th. This has been the third time the police have warned me about taking pictures not to stop but the officer said, “If there’s anything fucking on this camera that crosses the […]

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Traffic Jam, ATM Machine, Sixth Avenue and 31st Electronics Store

By keith
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September 23, 2010
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[audio:100922.mp3] I’m having a field day today. I’m on the corner of 31st and 6th. Beside the Korean massage parlor, the illegal Africans selling purses, there is an ATM machine about five feet from me. Everyone using that ATM machine is buying illegal purses or getting money for something. While that’s going on, there’s a […]

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Posted in Portraits of NY Tagged Africans, Atm Machine, Audio Mp3, Cameras, Cars, Circus, Electronics Store, Five Feet, Getting Money, Guess, Massage Parlor, People, photography, Purses, Sixth Avenue, Street Traffic, Traffic Jam Leave a comment

Scalpels, Shakira Concert, Hustlers, School Kids… Sixth and 31st

By keith
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September 22, 2010
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[audio:100921-3.mp3] I want to talk about my new location. In the last two and a half months, I experimented with four different stores in four different locations. I finally found my new home. My old home was Chinatown for about two and a half years, Canal and Greene. This new location is 6th Avenue and […]

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Posted in Portraits of NY Tagged 6th Avenue, Africans, Boy And A Girl, Different Things, Group Shots, Half Hour, Hustlers, Madison Square Garden, Massage Parlor, Mixture, New Location, Nurses, Photographs, Purses, School Kids, Shakira, Shaquille, Story Hotel, Three Months, Tractor Trailer Drivers, Train, Two And A Half Years Leave a comment

Sting Operation, Undercover, Africans, Happy Ending

By keith
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September 21, 2010
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[audio:100921.mp3] Wow, what a day yesterday and last night. I’ll start off with yesterday during the day. There are a lot of hot spots in New York City. The police call them hot spots – a lot of illegal activity, a lot of crime or whatever. I have my own special hot spots – a […]

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Posted in Portraits of NY Tagged Africans, Audio Mp3, Day Shift, Doing My Thing, Hot Spots, Illegal Activity, Korean Girls, Little Bit, Massage Parlor, New York City, Night Shift, Portraits, Press Pass, Purse, Purses, Sting Operation, Tourists, Two Doors, Undercover Cop, Undercover Police Leave a comment

Confiscated Purses… A Missed Photo Moment

By keith
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September 8, 2010
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[audio:100908.mp3] A lot of funny things happen when you’re out on the streets. A photographer always told me many years ago sometimes something so exciting happens, you’re caught up in the moment and you don’t even use your camera. This probably happened to me about 10 times. It happened today. These illegal purse people – […]

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Posted in Portraits of NY Tagged Africans, Audio Mp3, Chanel, Cops, Funny Things, Lot, Louis Vuitton, O Clock, Photo Moment, photographer, Purse, Purses Leave a comment

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