They did a great job covering the material they set out to cover, including a history of Street Photography and I’d like to think I did them proud with my shooting and editing. I hope you like it. Thanks again guys, for your trust and respect. I’m gonna go watch it now, it’s been 42 years…

I have to say it’s rather amazing for me to watch this after 42 years. Having shot and edited this doc, which is my favorite way to work, (Control Freak, much?) I remember each moment of choice in both filming and editing intimately. It’s like an old friend.

We didn’t have a crew, on the street it was just the three of us, “playing Jazz”. I shot it as if I were a street photographer, to match Joel’s openness to whatever happens.

Please be mindful that although Joel and Cody talk a lot about spending years on the street photographing thousands of images to see what rises to the top, I had a single afternoon to get this right.

They were both wearing wireless mikes so I wasn’t tied to them and was able to take my distance. I like the shots where you can barely see them for everything else the street is providing. Eye candy everywhere. The way I edited their conversation sings like a song to me, I remember the cadence and flow distinctly.

My favorite part is up by the fountain at the Plaza Hotel where Joel is narrating what we are seeing and I took the risk to drift off of them to let the camera just absorb the flow of people coming to us, Joel pauses his description and waits for what I’m shooting to simply unfold. Someone else would have said, “Hey what the f are you doing NOT filming me”, but Joel knew what I was doing and why, and made room for me to do my thing. I liked this piece 42 years ago, and I like it today. Thanks again, guys.

Nice to see too that our work is well received: