Matt Weber (Street photography), Kids & Teens, Offspring

NYC 2008

I think this is a pretty decent photograph. I go out of my way to get a very talented guitarist to sing Happy Birthday to my daughter, and he’s rocking his butt off, but my kid is much more concerned with what her friends are doing. It could have been Jimi Hendrix and she would still say “who cares, he’s boring daddy”…

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

Amsterdam Ave. 1988

I’m happy to post all of my pictures on the internet, knowing that some will be stolen. I can’t worry about what I don’t know about or can’t control. I refuse to become paranoid and only post tiny watermarked images. I don’t care if you use thirty of my pictures in a collage. I actually think it might make me happy to see the results. What you should NOT do is steal the images for a commercial project. My images can be purchased for very reasonable prices, and it would make sense to spend a small amount up front. I am being sued for every penny I don’t have in a divorce, and I will litigate to protect my work…I’m bringing this up because this image has been made into T-shirts in the past and is an example of one of my most commercially viable pictures…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Offspring

“Ipod Fever” 2010

It’s weird to have sired a bonafide “Techie”. Actually it’s weird to have sired anyone at all, but that’s another story. She’s almost as good at troubleshooting as I am, except when she doesn’t get her way with a computer, then look out. I should build a custom “Nerf” computer for her. As I get older and more useless, it will be cool to have her at my beck and call to fix what ever problems OS 11 or OS 12 has…

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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.

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