I’m reviewing the body of work that I’ve shot over the past year with the Leica in black and white. I gradually moved toward Ilford’s XP2 with scans done by the local lab. I have rescanned some images and experiemented with TriX, which I scanned myself. But the look of the project seems to be XP2.
The few monochrome digital images don’t fit in with their crisp look. And the digital color from some trips have a different idea behind them, essentially an extension of the Suburban Landscape, an Urban Landscape aesthetic.
It was only recently that I discovered this theme of motion. This image doesn’t fit in, but it’s interesting. I’ve been capturing people photographing in the city for a while but most of those images so far don’t do much for me. It will probably something that I keep after.
But I am taken with these images recorded at slow shutter speed, generally 1/30 or 1/15 with moving figures or vehicles. I actually like the anonymous quality of images where faces can’t be seen very clearly, since that’s my experience of these cities. Motion, anonymity.
