The last weekend I have published the results of using Hipstamatic Buenos Aires HipstaPak, with Uchitel 20 film and the John S lens during a recent outing to San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The series continues by leaving the streets and entering a narrow alley next to a fish monger and heading to the back of the building, then climbing up the fire escape staircase to access the roof and see the city from another angle.
It is Saturday and it is laundry day. While laundry is not exclusively being done on a Saturday, it certainly is prevalent on that day. Hanging from balconies, fire escapes, and clotheslines that have been stretched across the rooftops, it reflects a routine in lives of the inhabitants.
The story of a trip down Stockton and some of the side streets through the eyes of fifty years ago does not conclude, it only closes a chapter, after capturing the look and feel of the presence and changing it into another time long ago with Hipstamatic Uchitel 20 film.
This certainly will not be my last visit, for I am drawn like a moth to a flame, seeking the opportunity in which I find the unexpected, the hidden moment distilled into a single photograph.
San Francisco Chinatown, Part II
by Egmont van Dyck
Mom and her little girl
Climbing up the back fire escape stairways
Saturday, it must be laundry day
The Pyramid Building
Looking down on Stockton Street
Coit Tower and laundry blowing in the wind
Seeing both sides of the window
Chinese Dumplings
Passage to the hidden
Just another day
Yl Trading Company
Laundry hanging outside the door
Heading home
A cigarette to pass the day
2 comments:
Great series of images of Chinatown. Very unusual point of view.
More great images. I love this series!
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