Street Photography

Just over half of these were made close to home, walking Downtown Miami, Brickell, Wynwood, Little Havana and South Beach with a camera. The rest come from trips to San Juan, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. Wherever I am, I'm looking for the same things: hard light that cuts a sidewalk into bright and dark, reflections in shop windows and bus shelters that stack two scenes into one frame, and the small gestures people make when they don't know anyone's watching. In Miami that means a man walking between two bars of light on a marble wall in Brickell, a rider on the Metromover passing the Fifth Street station, a woman eating beside a giant hot dog ad, and a man hanging shirts on a rack in front of a Little Havana mural.

Away from home, the same habits followed me. In Old San Juan there were blue cobblestones under a white wall and the El Galpón hat shop glowing at night. In Vancouver, a worker stacked boxes on Granville Island. In San Francisco, someone carried an orange bundle past a Chinatown lamppost, and a man in paint-stained pants unlocked a door with a key on a chain. In Toronto, a green-eyed face mural turned up twice, once on foot and once through a car window. Some frames are about color, like a woman in a sun hat passing a Road Work Ahead sign on a deep blue wall. Others strip everything down to silhouettes against bright light.

More from the street in Black & White, Street Art and Little Havana.

Older man walking between two vertical bars of light on a dark marble wall in Brickell
Two women waiting at a crosswalk beside a sticker-covered signal pole in Little Havana
Woman in a blue jumpsuit eating as she passes a giant Manischewitz hot dog ad on a Miami bus
Woman with a walker photographing a smiling man in a yellow shirt on a Miami sidewalk
Young women taking selfies in front of a mirrored bus shelter in Brickell
Person carrying an orange bundle past a red and gold Chinatown lamppost in San Francisco
Three people walking past a white wall on a blue cobblestone street in Old San Juan
Man with long gray hair in a black hat and leather jacket walking past a shuttered storefront in San Francisco
Man passing a lit Turkish Delights shop window, its reflection framed in a car mirror in San Juan
Three figures silhouetted against a bright green wall in San Juan
Man walking past the Bari pizza and El Galpón hat shop windows at night in Old San Juan, reflected in a parked car
Chef behind a seafood counter photographed through a glass window with reversed lettering in the Granville Market in Vancouver British Columbia
Smiling worker in gloves stacking boxes outside a market on Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver
Man with a bicycle chatting with a man seated on a storefront ledge on a Toronto sidewalk
Pedestrian walking past a large colorful mural featuring a tiger and wildlife painted on a building in San Francisco
Woman photographed through a flower shop window layered with reflections of blooms and color in Niagara on the Lake
Group of people waiting at a South Beach bus stop alongside colorful pink and teal buses and bicycles
Woman carrying a Lacoste shopping bag across a sunny South Beach intersection, mirrored in a glass panel
Young man in a straw hat riding the Metromover past the Fifth Street station in Brickell
Close-up of a man's stride in jeans and orange sneakers, another man reflected in the glass beside him in Downtown Miami
Man jogging past a mural of a woman's face with a green eye beside a red door in Toronto
People entering and exiting a Toronto building through glass doors with a cyclist stopped on the sidewalk nearby
Man cupping his hands to peer through a café window, people reflected inside, in Miami
Man in paint-stained white pants unlocking a glass door with a key on a chain in San Francisco
Woman in a sun hat walking past a Road Work Ahead sign against a deep blue construction wall in Miami
Man in an orange shirt casting a dramatic shadow as he walks along a sunlit Miami sidewalk
Adult and child walking hand in hand on a Wynwood sidewalk photographed from behind at ground level
Man walking past the Miami Mojito Company and a snow cone stand in Wynwood
Woman silhouetted against a stark white wall checking her phone while carrying a bag on a Toronto street
Young people walking past graffiti and a city info kiosk on NW 25th Street in Wynwood
Man in a blue shirt walking briskly past a Toronto storefront carrying a coffee cup and fresh greens
Woman in sunglasses reflected in layered glass, construction workers behind her, in San Francisco
Woman in heels walking through a dramatic shaft of light on a Miami sidewalk carrying a shopping bag
Older man in a fedora hanging shirts on a clothing rack in front of a mural in Little Havana
Silhouette of a man leaning on a ledge beneath a concrete overhang in Downtown Miami
Man pulling a suitcase walking through a circle of warm light on a Miami sidewalk
Two men photographed through a storefront window reflection on a sunny South Beach street
Group of friends walking and laughing on a San Francisco sidewalk reflected in a curved mirror with city buildings behind them
Person silhouetted against a bright blue digital billboard advertising a summer energy drink campaign in Toronto
Person stepping through a revolving door in the rain carrying two blue umbrellas on a Miami street
Woman on the phone passing the green-eyed face mural, seen through a car window in Toronto
Man and woman walking two black dogs past a yellow fire hydrant and a green wall in Miami
Worker in a safety vest pushing a cart through a dramatic shaft of light on a dark Miami street
Two people silhouetted against a bright white background in a Toronto transit station with luggage and a stroller