The Underground Man

Street photography, London, 1977

I seem to be devoting much of my spare time of late (what little I have) to sorting through old negatives and slides and scanning in select ones. This one gives me some hope that I might be capable of some decent street photography some day. Taken when I was sixteen, wondering around London with a camera in the late 1970s.

At the time, I was more interested in recording memories than taking interesting shots of people in that "decisive moment" but somehow this one snuck into the roll. Miracle of miracles, it's properly exposed and timed.