#36 PHOTO DROUGHTS, CORN SNAKES & THE GENTLE TOUCH!
Eclectic is a word you could use to describe today's show. Leonard Neumann returns with more photographers to study, his take on street portraiture and why he chooses to work black and white. Also I find myself field, possibly with corn snakes, learning about how to approach strangers in a foreign country to my own. Also, not so much a boom, but at least some work, following a four month photographic drought.
Today, the final part of an interview recorded in June with London based candid street photographer Leonard Neumann, who is able to make street portraits and candid documentary with equal skill, always with a reverence for the people he photographs, not the way, but a way when it comes to working with people you’ve never met before in your life.
It’s fair to say that during today’s episode, we’re going to meander a little, as ever, when you talk with Leonard, such is his passion for the topic of photography in general and a list of further photographers to reference is below, along with a short film I made about ‘doorstep’ street portraiture in Daytona.
FURTHER REFERENCE
Joel Mayerowitz main website
Gary Winogrand at MoMA
Willy Ronis Wiki entry and New York Times photo essay
Robert Frank The Americans
Toby Old’s portfolio
Kevin Mullins Ministry of Shadows
