Bessa L / 25mm / Red filter : new darkroom prints

Up until now I had just the digital scans and digital prints for this series of downtown street photographs from Oct 2008. Last week I printed them in darkroom, they came out good; better than expected, better than digital!

Summer pattern

I am really enjoying working in darkroom... Here is few more of the recent prints:

Books I published in IPAD format

I converted all books I published on Blurb to Ipad format.
The download is free, here are the links:

"Selected" series:

Victor Ginzburg, "Selected Photographs" --
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/345444-selected-photographs

Mike Steinberg, "Selected Photographs" --
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/345429-selected-photographs

Alexander Slyusarev, "Selected Photographs" and "Selected Color"--
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/345417-selected-photographs
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/345401-selected-color

Emir Shabashvili, "Selected Photographs" --
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/345449-selected-photographs

My street potrfolio circa 2007:
"La Machine a Habiter"
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/345382-la-machine-a-habiter

Books based on my Russian blog :

Day by day 2006-2008 (Russian)
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/340531-

Day by day 2008-2009 (Russian)
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/343005-

Happy reading!

Love one another...

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This inscription was on the wall by the bus stop on 1st street in Downtown Miami in 2008. The woman is always there, even today. If you stay in front of her long enough she'll open her eyes and ask for a dollar...

Street prophet, his wife and elephant seller

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This man is appearing year after year under the Metrorail tracks by Government Center. He is preaching aloud with his wife seated in front of him. He is always wearing this neck support collar. His preaching is not the best I heard, he is telling Lord's word more to himself than to the others, but this time he had his better day. When I was taking this picture, the elephant seller (his hand is in the left side of the frame) asked me: "Aren't you from CIA or FBI?" Good place. Not too many spots like this is the whole Miami.

Morning in Little Haiti

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From the car window while driving from the beach through blocks of Little Haiti. She was floating in a slow motion along the wall and our car was floating slowly in the traffic. I've gotten a split second for the click.

Straight up

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These taken at Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami; the folks were protesting/marching every other day for many weeks. I used my beloved Bessa L rangefinder with short 25mm lens (hence huge depth of the field), Tri-X film pushed to E.I. 1600 in Diafine and dark red filter to enhance the contrast of the scene.

Inner peace

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With this post I am starting the publication of my street portfolio. You'll always get the link to the same but bigger picture on the storage site (pbase.com/amirko) by clicking on the image and the link where you can order prints (MiamiStreetPhoto), it is right under the picture.

I shot this picture (as the most of my street photos) in downtown Miami. I passed by these figures, then saw the image in my mind, turned around and came back -- they stayed.