Matt Weber (Street photography), Kids & Teens, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Hotel Martinique 1988

The Martinique was a welfare hotel back in the ’80s and the kids would spill out into the streets. I should probably have spent some time shooting them, but I just stopped my cab, put on the blinkers and took several shots of these kids crawling up onto the phone booths. I’ve always been on the move and it’s now obvious that slowing down and staying put is a very good strategy, but the old cliche that you can’t teach an old dog, well you know what I mean…

This is a mediocre scan from an old print and will be rescanned one day, hopefully sooner than later.

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Portraits, The Urban Prisoner, Women of New York

Starbucks 1996

This was the first Starbucks on the upper west side and they actually closed a couple of years ago, because a bank outbid them for their lease! I remember that I was mired in one of the worst creative slumps of my life and probably hadn’t taken a picture that I really liked in well over a year. When this one came out of the tray, I recall being extremely relieved…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Old New York, signs, The Urban Prisoner, Times Square

The Unknown Soldier “Marine” 1989

A friend who knows a lot more about photography as an art than I do, once told me “This is the image that you’ll be remembered for” Like anyone else who’s not dead or in a wheelchair, I’d like to think that I may still have something else up my sleeve. I’m not saying that having a signature image is without any value. It could be nice to win a Pulitzer and be famous for a week, but there have been those photographers known for that one killer shot, and then many others known for their brilliant careers…Which one would you like to be?

All Photos © Matt Weber