Xmas in New York 1990 > Stephen Henry | Brisbane Photographer

Xmas in New York 1990

09-November-2009

It was xmas'90 and these merchants were selling to people at the Battery Park Ferry Terminal. They could have been refugees or the urban poor, kind of the same thing really.
My feet and jaw were frozen and the guy in the middle got my heart racing. I just kept moving

Street Photography, New York Christmas

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# Christine Minkov

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:11 AM

Awesome photo - captures desperation, fear (not just yours Steve) and social exclusion.

# Stephen M Irwin

Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:18 PM

I was living in New York the year before this was taken, and remember in my mind's eye NY as a city both exciting and dangerous – and this photo sums it up beautifully.

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