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Portraits of New York – it’s not only in Manhattan that I shoot in, I’ve been through up to the other borrows – Staten Island, Queens, Brooklyn. I’ll tell you what, I’ve been spending one day a week in Brooklyn. One night a week excuse me, I have a friend over there.
This isn’t what I think, it’s what I see. The Italians are more Italian than anywhere else and the Jewish people are more Jewish than any other Jewish people. I don’t know what it is about Brooklyn – the Puerto Ricans are more Puerto Ricans, the Indians are more Indian.
The Italians make me laugh the most. They’re with the overdone gangster accents. I don’t know, it’s just funny there. I like it. Doing portraits is very difficult there because at night I’m at clubs. I’ve been to three or four different clubs there. Great pictures but very difficult to get.
Anyway, back to my problems here in Manhattan. Shooting yesterday – you know, I’m right next to an ATM machine once in a while. People are getting their ATM money, they think I’m taking pictures of that. And I talked to you about it before, the undercover police, the Africans, the purses, the Koreans, the normal criminals of the street – four directions coming my way. I’m under too much pressure there. Plus I’m working the window at the store. I think I’m going to have to go to a totally new location – not 7th, not 6th. I kind of want to go back to Chinatown. But I’m shooting away wherever I’m at.
I just can’t wait to put up these new 3,000 images edited out of 14,000 or whatever. Anyway, it’s close to my 60th straight day in the city.
Signing off.