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above, coney island boardwalkers with a commitment to ink.

inspired by the work of friends peter and khoi, i've made a resolution to start taking more portraits. the ones above are my favorites so far. click each photo to get a closer view.

before this // after this

Wednesday 28 July 2004

tattoo'd strangers on the boardwalk at coney island

23 comments // brooklyn, monuments, neighborhoods, portraits

28 July 04 @ 01:58

nice series. love the composition in the second image down. more power to you in this new direction; i "see " a lot of portaits but have a hard time pointing my camera at people.

kamau // http://www.forota.net

28 July 04 @ 10:35

fantastic! i love strangers! way to be brave. love 1, 2, and 7!

dawn // http://post-norm.com

28 July 04 @ 10:55

great set of photos, love the second and sixth best. I find it really hard to go up to people and ask to take their photo, it feels so presumptuous, though it gets easier when you're with someone. Definitely worth it when you get these results.

miles // http://mute.rigent.com/

28 July 04 @ 11:57

love these, especially #7.

wendy //

28 July 04 @ 12:04

These are excellent, a different direction - looking forward to more portraits.

Naz // http://www.boochakanan.com

28 July 04 @ 13:03

Awesome. I'm with Naz -- I hope to see even more portraits on your site.

+mojan. // http://mojansami.com/blog

28 July 04 @ 13:50

wow. beautiful shots. you really capture the etails of the tats and the boardwalk energy. love your stuff.

i happened to see a friends heavilly tattooed legs on a strangers photo site and wrote about it...

http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2004/
week29/index.html#a0001763975

cb/cityrag // http://cityrag.blogs.com

28 July 04 @ 13:57

~IMHO your best photo essay...the subject matter and place are unique, well presented and all contain characters with stories behind her their tats...well done, bt far my favorite series I have seen here~

btezra // http://www.whatthehellhappenedlastnight.com/photos/

28 July 04 @ 15:56

The color on all of these are really fantastic. I'm guessing that you asked these folks (most of them, anyways) before you took their picture?

lacey // http://lay-c.com/log/

28 July 04 @ 16:26

This is really one of my favorites, but I've always been a fan of tattoos even though I don't have the attention span to actually get one!

Charlie // http://www.alwayscurious.com

28 July 04 @ 17:56

Love this series! The colors and the Tattoos:)

Alexander // http://www.zeys.com

28 July 04 @ 18:55

Gorgoues photo series chock full of prsonality. Power to you for taking more portraits... I am too wimpy to approach strangers. :( Thus my people shots are mainly of my friends/family who know I am a crazy shutterbug.

Leilani // http://www.chinaberries.net

28 July 04 @ 20:49

Wow! This is a beautiful series.

Keith // http://overshadowed.com/

28 July 04 @ 22:56

excellent series. amazing colors and composition and most importantly, great subjects. particularly like the candid one of the person in the black top smiling... and the last one makes me wince. it just looks so bloody painful!

Emily // http://

29 July 04 @ 01:21

coney island rocks!

wo // http://www.meerkat.net.au

30 July 04 @ 10:48

Really nice series. Subject, sharpness, color and exposure are tops. Are you shooting with something other than the Rebel these days? I noticed the aspect ratio is back to 4:3. Anyhow, keep up the good work.

K // http://infrangible.com

01 August 04 @ 16:05

still using the rebel, just starting to not stick to any one ratio, i suppose. and yes, i'm starting to just talk to people on the street to get (most of) these!

thx all. will look forward to posting more portraits soon...

rion // http://rion.nu

04 August 04 @ 10:43

utterly fabulous!

heather // http://www.hchamp.com

16 August 04 @ 13:42

Leave it to the art student to notice the aspect ratio... Great bunch. Number 2 is something special.

Eliot //

21 August 04 @ 18:55

These are awesome, I am a lover of tattoos.

Mel //

21 February 05 @ 14:18

You took these photos almost a year ago but still I come back and look at them...#2 is probably one of my favourite photos ever. Its amazing. Simply brilliant.

Joseph //

01 July 05 @ 18:27

johnny cash !!!

andy // http://www.sheepish.org/andy/

20 February 08 @ 17:30

hey! that last pic is me! my friend just found this on flickr.....

heather //

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