People on the sidewalk

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The Gay Pride Parade in color (last part)

This is the last set of photographs I am posting of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March 2005 in New York City. Because I got request for color photos of that day... Here are some color photographs for my visitors I care for. :-) Have fun and see more photographs of the parade here and here.

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More photos of the Gay Pride Parade 2005

More photographs of the great Gay Pride Parade 2005 last Sunday in New York.

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A city of love: The Gay Pride Parade for Equal rights

This years Gay Pride Parade (now officially called Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March) in New York City took place this Sunday and was a hell of a party. I really liked the Puerto Rican Day Parade a couple of weeks ago. It was good fun and the temper was high. But the Gay Pride Parade was even more exiting! You could even say "Love is in the air. Everywhere I look around. Love is in the air. Every sight and every sound" (Lyrics of John Paul Youngs song). Well of course it's not only about love and fun but also about those who suffer from discrimination and HIV. This years theme for the parade was "Equal rights, no more no less."

One of the things I liked most about the march have been the spectators. The Gay Pride Parade started on 52nd Street, went down to 8th Street, turned right and went over onto Christopher Street. I started around 46th Street, the mood was good, observers seamed 5th Avenue. But the further you came down the more people where standing on both sides of the street watching the parade passing by, waving with banners and rainbow flags, screaming and applauding.
And let me tell you, there was enough to applaud to. Different organizations, politicians and groups marched to show their support and work for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community. There have been colorful dressed up drag-queens, muscular cowboys, beer bellied country fans, hot women, war veterans, firefighters and police officers marching in the parade... Yes, police didn't only patrol the streets, uniformed police officers carried a banner for the "Gay Officers Action League" and marched. Could you imagin gay police officers in Austria wearing a rainbow flag? Could you imagine them speaking out publicly? I can't. Well, that's New York baby.

The shot of the day
Unfortunatly (damn!) I missed the shot of the day because my memory card just transfered the last 230 photos onto a portable harddisk...
There was a truck of Absolut Vodka (there is commerce in all those parades) with dancers on it in the parade. It was lead by two really hot girls who did amazing things with their "hula hoops". Just a few feet before the end of the parade one of those girls went over to a group of police officers to persuade one of them to come and try the hula hoop. As I already thought, this policeman just shook his head and said no. BUT the girl was intractable and finally persuaded another of these police officers. He stepped forward and took the hoop. The crowd on each side of the street (since that was just a few feet away of the parades end there have been sooo many people) started to scream enthusiastically and gave this police officer a big applause after trying it. That's New York as well. :-)

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Billy Grahams Greater New York Crusade Part II

As I mentioned yesterday already I've been a little tricky to get access to areas I normaly wouldn't be allowed to go without a press pass. I did that at Billy Grahams Crusade in Queens and I did that at the Gay Pride Parade in Manhatten today. I've postponed this little story to tomorrow together with photos of todays parade.

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Billy Grahams Greater New York Crusade Part I

Today was the second evening of Billy Grahams Greater New York Crusade to which more than 80.000 people came as organizers estimated. Graham is 86 years old. He suffers from fluid on the brain, prostate cancer and the Parkinson's disease. This will be his last crusade in the United States. Beside those thousands and thousands of evangelic prayers political notables such as President Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton or New York Citys Mayors Michael R. Bloomberg attended.

It was quite interesting to see how this crusade (kind of a strange term for this event) took place and which people attended. Personally I don't see myself as a very religious person. The catholic church (that's how I grew up) in Europe is just too conservativ and grim. But there is a much broader variety of churches with different approaches in America. I can just say that I saw and heared certain kinds of enthusiasm and conservative views (in another way than those in Europe) this evening that appear to be a little too much for me. Since this is my personal opinion and I honestly don't have that much to say about religion I am going to post my personal approach to this rally tomorrow together with some more photographs. I've been a little tricky to get access to areas I normaly wouldn't be allowed to go without a press pass. I guess that might be a entertaining story for you.

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Running TV on board the Brooklyn VI boat

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The hell of a weekend is waiting for me

I just watched the San Antonio Spurs win the 2005 NBA Finals. I would have prefered to see Detroit win but it was a good game and the Spurs earned it. Anyway, I have to go to bed immediatly since I'll get up at 04:45 in the morning to head over to Brooklyn, catching a boat that will bring a couple of people onto the ocean for fishing. I actually never went fishing neither onto the sea with a boat. Sounds like good fun and a relaxing day. I made sure to get a hat and a sunblocker factor 45 today...
After coming back tomorrow evening I'll head over to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for the opening night of Billy Grahams New York Crusade. I just have to see myself how many people attend this conservative, huge, huge "crusade". I want to see which kind of people go their.
Saterday will be the Mermaid Parade on Coney Island as well as Billy Graham again and Sunday is the Gay Pride Parade in Manhatten and again... Billy Graham. I am sure this will be a weekend full of visual excitement and a lot of shooting for me.

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New Magnum Photos Feature: Coney Island by Bruce Gilden

There is a new multimedia feature by Magnum again. This time it's Bruce Gilden with a selection of 20 images of Coney Island commented by the photographer.

It was a hell lot of fun and very interesting doing the interview for this essay. Bruce Gilden is a very interesting person with a very strong character, saying what he thinks. He is very direct, some people might call that harsh, I call it honest.

At first sight his images of Coney Island (he started photographing Coney Island in 1968) seem to have a different style in comparison to his later work. What connects all of his photography is Bruce Gildens interest in people. He once said in an interview for Source magazine: "The people that I photograph I enjoy. I am stimulated by them. I like people that have something different and special and I think that's what makes life special."
I certainly think that Bruce Gilden is one of these interesting persons. I enjoy his photography and I enjoy his way to be straight and honest.

You can view the new feature here. It's the third multimedia essay of this kind produced by Magnum In Motion. You can check the previous one of Larry Towell here. The last essay was a little different since there have been different stories on one topic which ended up in more photographies. The next essay is already in plan so be sure to see more commented photographs of Magnum in the near future.
Which Magnum photographer would you like to be subject of one of the next essays by the way? Feel free to leave your comments.

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Smoke on Lexington Avenue

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Two men on 5th Avenue

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A rooftop movie night

Since Magda (a co-worker at Magnum) and Ian (her husband) have to move from their appartment in Manhatten to a new one in Brooklyn they invited friends for the premier and the closing night of "Movies at 125".
Honestly, how cool is it to hang out on a New York City rooftop with friends watching movies projected onto an old wall? I find it damn cool! Meeting friends on the roof of an old Bowery based building, having drinks and snacks together, enjoying the light breeze up their and watching movies. We saw two movies by french director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. "City of Lost Children" and "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain" (it's still such a wonderful fairy tale like story). People have been lying on blankets or sitting on small foldable chairs and benches. The structure and pattern of the wall we used for projection gave the movies a very pleasant and retro feeling.

This night on the roof was, to me, something typical about New York. New Yorkers just love their roofs although it seems to get harder and harder to get access. And the big difference between New York and Austria (or Europe) is that most buildings here have flat roofs which means that they can be perfectly used for barbecues, sunbaths, or movie nights. More and more landlords ban rooftop access because of the potential danger...

I guess it's even more speciall to people who have not been born in New York but who moved here. The atmosphere is just very unique if you get up on the roof after a day of hectic New York City life, feeling the air, listening to the sounds of the city and watching the sun going down. But those roofs aren't small green oasis with plants and garden furniture. The original roofs are just inlaid with tar papers. The so called "Tar Beaches" are one more sign of the adaptability and flexibility of New Yorkers. A characteristic I like.

You should also check out our party hosts websites. Magda who works at Magnum and is a photographer herself and Ian who is an illustrator.

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Two more American National Flags II

This is another photograph of my loose collection of American flags withing photos. After posting the last two I got an e-mail from a former Co-Op City resident writing that he heard similarly from other young Europeans that American patriotism strikes them as unusual. Here is an excerpt of that e-mail:

"I've heard similarly from other young Europeans that American patriotism strikes them as unusual. (In one case I'd mentioned to a Dutch epenpal that I'd gone with my children and my father-in-law to my town's small Memorial Day service and parade.) I think the primary difference is that in American the nation, the government, and the people have always been the same thing. The flag does not represent a government which rules us, it represents the people that we are. As a nation of immigrants, there is not symbol of our identity that is not a symbol of the country. And while we've lost soldiers, the country has never been truly devastated by war to the degree much of Europe has been, so the people find both war and its trappings -- which is how Europeans tend to see any signs of nationalism -- less distasteful. (That's a positive reinforcement cycle: since we fly flags other than at times of war, and other than when flown by the goverment and its armed forces, we don't view flags as part of the war machine, and we are thus more likely to fly them.) How does a European express "I am proud and glad to be part of this greater community"?"

I think this is an interesting point of view. Of course I can mainly speak about Austrians only. But I think that Europeans generally do not feel the need to express that they are proud and glad to be part of this greater community. Why? Because I don't think that Europeans see theirselfs as part of a great community. I don't think that the majority of Austrians are proud to be Austrian. At least I am not. I wouldn't want to be American or French, Italian, Chinese or whatever as well because I do think that the country doesn't really matter. I couldn't be proud to be born in a certain country just because of this country...
Am I wrong? Would be great if you'd leave your opinions on that as a comment on this site.

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Magnum Photos New York Staff

The above picture shows the staff of Magnum Photos New York. I did this collage at work today as part of a presentation for next weeks Annual General Meeting (AGM) which will take place in Paris.
The AGM rotates between Paris, New York and London every year. It's a big three day meeting where all (or most) of the active Magnum photographers come together to discuss various Magnum related topics, photography and business wise. It's also the time of the year were Magnum photographers look at submitted portfolios for consideration of membership, weather it's a new photographer wanting to become a nominee, weather it's a nominee applying to become an associated member or an associated member applying to become a full member of the agency.
The meeting is kicked off by a huge party with photographers as well as staff and invited guests attending. I was invited to the AGM party last year in New York. Quite good fun and of course very very interesting. It's been my first personal contact with Magnum, it's been the first time I saw photographers like Josef Koudelka, Larry Towell, Martin Parr or Eliott Erwitt in person.
Two days after that party in June 2004 I wanted to meet Mark Lubell, Magnums New York Bureau Director, again to say thank you and good bye since I had to leave again that day. So I went over to the Jewish Community Center where Magnum rented one floor for it's meeting. I took the elevator up to the 7th floor and waited for Mark coming out of the meeting in the lunch break. I waited and waited and started to walk around. After walking around a corner I suddenly stood in front of a room where all the photographers have been sitting together. Woooa... About 50 of the worlds finest photographers in front of me. That made me really feel crawly! :-)
Man, I'd really like to have the chance to actually attend the AGM meeting one day. You hear a lot of rumors on how these meetings are. So I'd like to see for myself...

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I love this game...

This evening I just hang out with my friend Victor, watchin the game, havin a Bud. It's kind of cool to be able to watch the NBA finals live on TV. I played a little basketball myself at school but I've never been good at it. I always enjoyed playing for fun but my joy got lost since the guys I used to play with took it kind of too serious. Standing around, never getting to play gets boring with the time.
Anyway, I still like basketball although I do not play it nor do I watch it regularly. But following the NBA finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Detroit Pistons is stirring. The Pistons kind of sucked in their first two games which took Place in San Antonio. Coming home to Detroit everything changed and they started to play real good basketball. Good defence, wonderful offense and really nice moves. They won with 31 points ahead today! Man I love this game. It's so entertaining.

When I was in New York City for the first time (February 2004) I went to see the New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden together with my girlfriend. Honestly it was not the best basketball I ever saw but it was for sure the best entertaining sports event I ever attended! It's not like going to a soccer match in Austria. Going to a NBA game is an evening full of fun. You get to see the (in this case) Mc Donalds childrens chorus singing the national anthem, you get to see cheerleaders jumping and fooling around, you get to see a BMX show in the break and of course there is one visitor choosen to try and make a basket from the midcourt. He didn't but if he would have done it, he'd won a brand new car... So it was a fun evening with my girlfriend back in February.

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Subway trains so crowded you could hardly stand in it

These are still some photographs I post of the aftermathes of the 116th Street Festival in Spanish Harlem this Saterday. The Bronx bound number 6 trains were so crowded that people could hardly stand in it. By that time it was raining heavily outside, but the party went on inside. Inside the trains... :-) Music, dances and loud singing have been companions for the commuters.

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Going down to the subway on 116th Street

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Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City Part II

Christian Lehner from FM4 radio (Austrian Broadcast) just posted an article about the Puerto Rican Day Parade yesterday on his website. His story "Upper East Side vs. Spanish Harlem" is about the collective self-deception of a multicultural city as New York is. His article is unfortunately only available in German. By the way: He used some photos I shot at the parade and at the 116th Street Festival for this article.
I also found a very interesting article called "Why I no Longer Go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade" written by Robert Colón on the website of the NY Latino Journal. An article about the diversity of this parade and the historical relationship between Puerto Rico and the US.

More of my photos of this Sundays parade can be found here and photographs of this Saterdays festival in Spanish Harlem can be found here.

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Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City Part I

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Puerto Rican Festival in Spanish Harlem

I went to the 116th Street Festival in El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) today. A huge Puerto Rican festival just a day before the Puerto Rican Day Parade. It is one of the hugest Hispanic events in New York City. Thousands and thousands of people attended.
It's been a really crazy and interesting afternoon. There was Live Music, Dance Perfromances, Latin Food, Cocktails and of course all those interesting people on the streets. Some really good Latin Hip Hop over at the stand of AirWear NYC as well, some spontaneous dancing and break dancing on the street.

I started off by just walking around, looking at the people, nearly all of them have worn Puerto Rican shirts, flags, caps or necklaces. If you like tattoos this was the place to go as well. Men as well as women showed off nearly every part of their body if tattooed. Puerto Rican maps, letterings, dragons, flags, hearts, weapons and names could be seen. Some very interesting constelations of tatoos. Love tattooed one one hand, hate on the other for example. At the beginning I didn't feel that comfortable about taking pictures of all these young people. It's my prejudices again... Young people, a scowling view, tattoos, muscles, and groups of people. After walking around for a while I thought "What the hell..." and started to ask people if I can take their photograph. (As a note beside: Since this questions is often asked, I don't always ask for permission to take a picture. It depends on the situation.) And how else could it be, all of them have been happy to pose for me, most of them have been really interested in what I was doing, where I come from and how I enjoy the festival. No gang affection, no offends, just very nice people!
I started to get more and more comfortable, loving the fact that I meet so many interesting people with different backgrounds having one thing in common - enjoying the day, hanging out with friends, winding up girls or boys in a very direct but respectful way. So it's been a good place as well for boys showing off their hard masculin muscles and girls showing off their feminine bodies. Interesting to see how different these things are in New York compared to Austria. Everything is much more direct.
Check out nuyorica.com for upcoming Latino events in town.

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Two more American National Flags

These photos show two more American Flags (well, not actually flags but something similar) I found on my way through New York City. Whenever I stumble upon a US flag I am taking a photograph of it. It's not a serious project I am working on, let's say I just collect them.

My week has been extremly buisy at work. Since everyone is preparing for the AGM (Annual General Meeting) of Magnum which will take place this month in Paris there are a lot of presentations to be set up. That's the reason why I kind of neglected this photoblog a little bit (at least I got the feeling that I did). I just didn't have that much time to roll around the city, taking pictures, experiencing adventures or meeting new people. Not every day can be a eventfully day.

I am already very much looking forward to this weekend. There's a lot going on in New York. The Puerto Rican Day Parade will be this Sunday, there will be the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in Madison Square Park on Saterday. Sunday afternoon I'll be going to Coney Island again to record some sounds with Claudine and BJ from work. And I do also have to work on a website for one of my Austrian customers. I was able to take the day off on Monday to go on working on that website. So be prepared for some nice shots and stories about this weekend.

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A girl enjoying a sunny afternoon

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Fulton Fish Market Part III

These are two more pictures of my night at the Fulton Fish Market a week and a half ago. I actually wanted to go to the market again this night but since I had to work long this evening and there is a lot of work waiting for me at Magnum in the next two days I had to postpone this night... :-(
The first part of the Fulton Fish Market series can be found here and the second part here.

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A woman waiting on the sidewalk

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New Magnum Photos Feature: Land & Identity

A new multimedia story produced by Magnum Photos went online today. Land & Identity is a story about people having no land. About the effects land has on them. The story is divided into four chapters with pictures from the civil war in El Salvador, photographs from the Mennonites in Mexico and Canada, photographs from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and in contrast to that pictures from Larry Towells family and farm in rural Canada.
The story is completed with Larry Towells voice, speaking about these photos as well as with original sounds of the scenes.

A very interesting multimedia feature in any case worth viewing. It's the second feature of this kind the Magnum In Motion team produced. We are already working on the next story so expect more to come.
The Land & Identity multimedia story can be seen here. Please leave your feedback, positive or negative by clicking the link below to improve the next version of that! Thanks a lot.

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Sunday on the beach and at a parade

I desperatly wanted to got to the beach today. It really got hot and humid in New York over the last couple of days. So I just put my stuff together and went to the N train to get to Coney Island. What a joy to have all subways in the city air conditioned!

Before going to Coney Island I stopped by the "Salute to Israel Parade" on 5th Avenue. The sun was burning down on everyboy, I walked around a bit and took a couple of photographs before jumping on the train again.

Arriving on Coney Island was interesting as well. The crowds of people already started when coming out of the subway. I walked around the beach front for a while, stumbled through the amusement park of Coney Island watching people and entertainers trying to get visitors into "Freak" shows. Before I left I passed by a Puerto Rican band which played in front of the beach. Nice Latin music, good vibrations, people dancing on the boardwalk and Puerto Rican flags everywhere. Well, the Puerto Rican Day Parade is coming closer and closer. If you are in New York check it out next Sunday between 44th and 86th street on 5th Avenue.

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Puerto Rican afternoon on East 10th street

I met Christian Lehner, the Austrian correspondent for FM4 (Austrian broadcast) this afternoon. We hang out in Tomkins Square Park talking about a lot of things. It was a quite nice and interesting meeting with him.
Afterwards I went on walking on 10th street until I met Evelyn Rodriguez. A in New York born Puerto Rican woman who was selling Puerto Rican flags, shirts and accessories. She was sitting with Puerto Rican friends on some folding chairs in the shadow of a tree on the street. Spanish music came out of a Radio, people stopped by, started to dance or just exchanged the latest gossip.
Mrs. Rodriguez told me that she did the painting (she is posing next to it in the first picture) herself about two years ago. They always use it when they do their block parties. The area around East 10th street is a rather Puerto Rican dominated area. A lot of Puerto Rican flags can be seen in windows, shops, on bicycles or flying on cars. People talk spanish everywhere and everyone seems to come together on the street on a sunny day. People take their music with them everywhere. Music comes out of shops, of cars and a lot of bicycles I saw had their own ghetto blaster fastend on them. Music is very important for Evelyn Rodriguez and her friends. It brings you in a good mood and problems become minor matters.
Next Sunday will be the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhatten. I'll definetly go there. It is promised to be one huge party with spanish music, food and dances.

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It's all about photography...

I have been thinking, smelling, seeing, tasting and doing photography for the last five weeks as much as I didn't for the whole time before.

The differences
I mean I've been interested in photography for quite a long time now and it constantly grew over the time. I dealt with it even more and more in the last one and a half years since I just stopped always talking and thinking about it without doing it. But I just can't compare these times to my time in New York City now. It's a hell of a difference! In my eyes Austria is not the best place to be as a photographer. New York might not be as well if you want to start working and start to earn a living with photography. There are just so many photographers in New York (well, I guess if you are good enough you can do it wherever you are).
Anyway, Austria and Vienna (where I come from) is just a little lame in that field. We've got a Leica gallery in Vienna which is great and we've got... not that much else. At least no galleries or institutions which dedicate theirselfs to documentary photography or photojournalism. Yeah, we got photo agencies in Austria as well but to be honest they can't really be compared to the good ones in New York or Paris though. There might be one agency in Vienna which I'd consider to be a good one, at least partly.

Learning and Experiencing
So New York is so much about learning and experiencing photography for me. A big part of that is of course my work at Magnum Photos. But that's not all. There is the International Center of Photography in New York, other institutions to do workshops or take classes, there are many, many galleries specialized in photography here, there are photography exhibitions all the time. You can start visiting these exhibitions and galleries one day, and by the time you finished seeing all of them you might be able to start over again from the beginning since there's always something new to see.

And of course there are the people I meet which are into photography one or the other way. That might be people from Magnum, photographers, staff or interns, that might be a photographer from the Redux photo agency I met at the Aids Walk in Central Park, that might be photographers from New York I met over my website or whereever. So it's possible for me to talk about photography with a lot more people than I could back in Vienna. Probably I just seem to know a view people who are into photography there.

Basically I wake up thinking of photography, I get up thinking of photography, I go to work thinking of photography, I work thinking of photography, I go home thinking of photography, I feed my photoblog thinking of photography and I go to bed thinking of photography. And of course there is my girlfriend I am thinking of! :-)

Yesterday evening I was hanging out with Karen and Justin, both from Magnum to look at each others work. Kind of a personal portfolio review. It was really interesting and inspiring to look at their work, and talk about ours. We all three had very different styles reaching from very artistic, to very Associated Press like photojournalism to classical black and white documentary photography. So it's not about competing with each other but about exchanging.

Getting established
I talked to Hiroji Kubota, a Magnum photographer, the other day and he told me that the next years will be very hard for me if I plan to seriously get involved into photography. He told me that I should be established by the age of 30... I thought about that and I guess that should be possible. I will be 26 in September so there are another four and a half years left for that. When meeting Karen and Justin we also talked about the meaning of being established.
Being established to me doesn't mean to be famous, it doesn't meen to be rich. For me it means having the freedom to work on projects you are really interested in, to work on long term projects, doing stories which last. Of course you have to earn money, you have to live and eat but that will work out in one or the other way.

Networking
And there is another thing I am thinking about. How important or helpful is being able to do networking with people from the business? First of all I am really not good in that at all.

I went to a Aperture party this evening. It was kind of a relaxed party in the very nice loft of the Aperture Foundation. Probably about 300 people have been there, nearly all of them I didn't know. There have just been a handfull of people from Magnum which I knew. And all the others... Strangers to me. The thing is that I start to get very uncomfortable in such situations which has kind of a physical impact on me (I start to float away) which makes me even more uncomfartable. Not a good premise to meet people. But these events, especially at Aperture are great possibilities to get to know important people out of the business I guess. There have been photographers like Alex Majoli (a Magnum member), Mary Ellen Mark, Jonas Bendiksen (a Magnum nominee) or Antonin Kratochvil (member of the VII photo agency) and a lot of people from different agencies, galleries and publications.
I might get used to these events somewhen but I still don't know how important these networking things are... Beside the fact that it would also just be interesting to get to know these people.

So if you have also thought about these things, I am interested in what you have to say about this theme. I'd appreciate every comment on that!

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Noon on 6th Avenue

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Leapfrog in Brooklyn

I actually took this picture last Sunday when I went to Brooklyn to see the Dance Africa Festival at BAM. The boy was running around the street when I saw him. I got my camera up while he started to run to a hydrant jumping over it. Three frames later the boys father called him to stop.

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