Street photo portrait of an Ukrainian garbage man on one of surf camps in polish Hel peninsula. This man collects and selects trash to the right containers. Long poles holding the lids of big black trash cans are old broken windsurfing masts.
This is a fresh scan of my last film I shoot during my septemer streetphoto walks in Gdańsk, Poland. In my opinion it’s the essence of street photography. I just had a second to take this shot, in fact I took it almost without stopping to walk. I’m very happy with it, especially with my manual focus camera – the sharpness is perfect, the frame is perfect. I am very pleased with the result, comparing to very short period of time, I had to take it.
11 september 2021during Viva Oliwa happening in Gdańsk Oliwa market, there was a concert of a polish underground band Rat Kru. The guys were rippin, so we were partying hard and I took some photos at a concert with my favourite pocket analog camera Olympus mju II.
This is one of my favourite photos from my surf trip to Peniche in 2019.
I was walking alround Peniche searching for some decent street photos, and suddenly I saw this surfer guy sitting on a beach drinking beer, smoking weed and looking at the ocean. I sneaked as quiet as I could and took a picture. Of course my old nikon’s shutter is very loud, so the guy turned around, and asked: “What’s up bro?”.
I started axplaining that I just took a picture of him sitting at the beach, because it looked cool, I had no bad intentions, and how is the surf by the way. We started talking, and he said he was no surfer, just a guy smoking weed at the beach, he tried surfing couple years earlier, but the water is too cold and shit… After all, we spent like an hour together drinking beer and talking about surfing, life, and all the differences between Portugal and Poland.
I really miss that time, when you could shake hand and talk to complete stranger for an hour at the beach without facemasks and all this bullshit. Nowadays everybody look at you like a potential threat, keep distance, almoust run away. Hope everything will be normal again…
