Matt Weber (Street photography), Fights & Playfights, Subway

Last Fight on Film

fight-subway-nyc-matt-weberHe kept yelling at the white guy “You’re a serial fellatio addict!” “You constantly commit fellatio on hundreds of men, all the time!” You commit fellatio” “fellatio lover!” And then eventually the poor guy who’d been circled by this homophobic idiot like a wolf, yelled back at him “I do commit fellatio all the time!” “That’s right, I am a British Cigarette!”

 

See how hard it is not to use profanity on occasions like this?

 

After their verbal exchange, the doors on the subway to the left of them opened, and the black guy shoved the “British Cigarette” through the doors where he collapsed into a crumpled ball. I did press the shutter but nothing happened.

The camera refused to take a picture!

Once again, I had run out of film…

©Matt Weber 2014

Matt Weber (Street photography), Fights & Playfights, homeless, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“The Minnesota Strip” 1989

Back in the 1970s the stretch on 8th Ave. north of the port authority, was called “The Minnesota Strip” because of the large amount of runaway teens (from the mid-west) that would get off the bus and wander up 8th Ave. Often these kids were preyed upon instantly as they got off the Greyhound bus by the local pimps, and within days they were selling their bodies for their new employers…

All Photos © Matt Weber

This is the photo Joe Lhota stole from me!

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Fights & Playfights, Men of New York, Old New York

The Shopkeeper 1988

If you grew up in a city, this scene was pretty common. A store owner defends his turf against some thugs with a baseball bat or other club. I just found this while searching negatives from over twenty years ago. Even though the picture depicts something fairly common, I was totally psyched to find this because it’s something which I never thought I’d photographed. For reasons unknown to me, I found this image to be unworthy of printing when I took it. If I was shooting with a digital camera, would I delete it? It is amazing how time itself makes a picture seem better, even though the very concept is absurd.

I’d advise young photographers to keep ALL of your pictures on a hard drive somewhere other than your house. Terabytes are now affordable and you will be very happy that you kept some of your outtakes twenty years from now…

Street Photography © Matt Weber