Crying girl with her parents, Coney Island, 2008

Woman with a metal detector, Coney Island, 2008

To celebrate the start of summer I will post a bunch of outtakes from my Coney Island series.  There will be a new photo added each day this week.

A cop realises I’m taking her picture, Coney Island, 2007

Shibuya, 2010

Kawasaki, Kanagawa

Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo

First picture of 2010 (with a camera from 1966).

“The purpose of art is, in the end, to find beauty, and by that to share an intuition of promise. …Are there scenes in life, right now, for which we may conceivably be thankful? Is there a basis for joy or serenity, even if felt only occasionally? Are there grounds now and then for an un-ironic smile? Every artist and would-be artist should, I think, recognize a responsibility to try, without lying, to answer those questions with a yes.” – Robert Adams, in an interview with Joshua Chang, published in the Winter 2009 issue of Aperture.

Coney Island, NY