Matt Weber (Street photography), Cars & Buses, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

“Turbo Yuppies” 1988

I am using twenty year old titles because they had some relevance when I titled them and I suppose that the original impetus to title an image still has some significance, when looking at it many years later. After all, everything changes in New York, and the last yuppie was seen on September 10th 2001…After that we all became just New Yorkers again…

Right? Or is that just wishful thinking?

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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.

All Photos © Matt Weber

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…

All Photos © Matt Weber