Category: Human Interest
Winged Victory onlooker
In photography, as in English pantomime, one piece of advice is, “Look behind you!” So here’s a photo of an onlooker to the Winged Victory at the Louvre.
Print Seller
One of the 250 Bouquinistes lining the Seine, selling 300,000 books and prints. Just above him, you can see a small clip of Notre-Dame.
When I kiss you, it all becomes a blur
A couple kissing in the plaza in front of Notre Dame, after the floodlights were turned off.
La Fumeuse de Notre Dame
Old couple in Place Maubert
Father and son
At the Hangar Cafe.
Open
Kleines Cafe
“We are in the waiting business”
Overheard from this gentleman in the Café Imperial as negotiators — including the Iranians, for the first time — had talks regarding Syria a few floors above. In the Hotel Imperial, Vienna.
Polizei
A fellow who was on guard duty during the talks at the Hotel Imperial.
Café Hawelka
Girl In a Doorway
At the mausoleo di Galla Placidia, in Ravenna.
Town meeting
Old friends
Ponte dei Gesuiti
The Cobbler — Friulane Dittura
Calle Fiubera, 943, 30124 Venezia VE
Gondolier and smartphone
Laughs at a Venice kiosk
In Cannaregio, at the Rio Terà Frutariol and Rio Terrà Santi Apostol.
Scene from a Movie Not Made
At the vaporetto stop for San Giorgio Maggiore.
Fishing
On the Fondamenta Ormesini. Taken from across the Rio della Misericordia from a seat in the Ghimel Garden restaurant, in the Ghetto.
Mother and daughter
At the Campo dei Gesuiti, Venexia.
Tin Hau Temple
In the Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood of Hong Kong.
“Mussolini”
Not that I ever called him that to his face. But his jaunty swagger, bullet shaped head, and rough-but-hilarious talk made the parallel inevitable. He was the clear king of his domain, a street restaurant in the Temple Street Night Market. Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong.
Xiàngqí
Unruly
Bus rider
The Padre
The officiant of a friend’s wedding.
Jerry and Pat
So there I was, at a campaign rally in UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, the night before the US presidential election — Monday, 7 Nov 1988. We were all there to support (or cover) Mike Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president. And I hear a voice behind me, “Oh, my god! Jerry (Brown, the then-former Governor of California) is talking to Pat! (Also Brown, also a former Governor of California, and Jerry’s father.) He hasn’t done that for years!”
I turned right around, and made this picture. Because I knew, first names by themselves or not, just who was being spoken about.
Sometimes the value of a picture is in the caption, not the picture itself. So here it is — a quasi-estranged son talking to his father. A little blurry, and definitely artless.
But they hadn’t talked to each other for years.
Stay Low and Keep Moving
Tina Bruce at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, in the final year it was held in Agoura, Calif.