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I happened to pass a man on the street at an intersection. He had a Leica M3 around his neck. I eyed his camera and he eyed mine, and as we passed we nodded knowingly at each other. The next day, I saw him again and this time I made it my mission to speak with this man with which coincidence had brought us to cross paths twice in the 2 days I was in Chicago. There were introductions made and we spoke a bit about street photography and of cameras, then we went our seperate ways. I had a train to catch, with Keith and Pierre standing with me. I didn’t feel like chatting too long with him since they were nearby. I did not know who he was when I chatted with him on the streets of Chicago, but I sure did look him up when I got back home.

He has been shooting on the streets for 40 years. He bought a Leica M3 in 1968 and has been shooting with that ever since. He has no job, he just goes out on the streets and shoots photos. He had never shown his photography to anyone until recently.

Read all about him: [link]

A sample of his work is here: [link]

He had an aura about him. They were his streets. Chicago was his. It was pervasive, which is why I took a photo of him. He has that kind of invigorating confidence, clarity of purpose and focus that rubs off on you. It felt as if I was meeting a hero in his home city, and this is before I knew who he was.

I feel like I’ve met superman, and he carries an M3.
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~m0riendi Oct 5, 2008
fantastic shot with an nice story behind ;)

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"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" ~Ernest Gaines
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~aschi23 Apr 22, 2008
oh man... the story to it makes it really great. just googled his name in images and your portrait was one of the first ;)

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~Zaqari May 14, 2007
this is such a great print. like *Archange said you can all his character you describe. I like the light you've showed him in too, superman style.

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~Gogs May 7, 2007
stunning photo!

i love this black and white! which camera
did you use for this one? if it was a digital
one, how did you turn it to a such great b/w?

and a nice frame too :)

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:icongodhatesphysics:
~godhatesphysics May 7, 2007
This was taken with a film camera, Leica M6 with a 35mm lens. It's easy to make it look like a great B&W when it's taken in B&W :)
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~Gogs May 7, 2007
thx :)

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L'Etat c moi
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~eyeseewell May 3, 2007
Man that is farking sweet, and so is the story. What a fantastic coincedence:)
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~modest-rye Dec 27, 2006
he looks exactly like my white grandpa.

in seriousness I haven't shown in commenting in a long time, I do like this portrait and --like someone else commented, everything of his street persona does show, and in such a vivid portrait. he obviously dresses himself quite swell for each day he shoots photos.
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~battlewings Nov 23, 2006
What a great story and picture :D
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~iyidin Oct 26, 2006
:worship:

Cool guy with an amazing body of work. Respek!
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