#84: Street Zorro

4/3/2020

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USA, 2005 / Praktica BC3; Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm; Ilford Delta 400

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#77: Omani Street Candid 1

3/15/2020

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Oman, 2017 / pentax K3; Pentax 55-300mm; 1/320 sec; f/5.8; ISO 400

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#75: The Undertaker Votes For Number 2

3/13/2020

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The Undertaker, a character from a re-enactment of the cult 60s TV show, The Prisoner

Wales, 2017 / Pentax K3; Pentax 55-300mm; 1/180 sec; f/5.8; ISO 100

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#65: Sahara Man

2/24/2020

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Man and donkey in the Sahara Desert in Algeria

Algeria, 1992 / Praktica BX20S; Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm; Fuji Superior 100

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#60: Istanbul Smile

2/8/2020

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Smiling boy posing in colourful Istanbul street

Turkey, 2015 / Pentax K20D; Sigma 17-70mm; 1/20 sec; f/8; ISO 100

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#52: Some Guy In Hollywood

1/22/2020

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USA, 2005 / Praktica BC3; Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm; Fuji Superior 100

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#50: Barefoot Nepalese

1/20/2020

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Two barefoot Nepalese girls on a mountain pathway

Nepal, 1984 / Praktica Nova PL; Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm; Agfa Portrait 160

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#41: The Mad Barber Of Istanbul

1/2/2020

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Manically grinning barber with a cut throat razor shaves a customer

Turkey, 2015 / Pentax K20D; Sigma 17-70mm; 1/250 sec; f/6.3; ISO 100

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#4: The Pide Maker

11/23/2019

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A pide (Turkish pizza) maker stretching the dough

Turkey, 2015 / Pentax K20D; Sigma 17-70mm; 1/13 sec; f/5.6; ISO 200

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#3: Seen Many Things

11/23/2019

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An elderly lady sitting outside her house in Ronda, Spain

Spain, 2004 / Praktica BC3; Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm; Agfa Portrait 160

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#2: Lamb With Girl

11/23/2019

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Street portrait of Romany girl with lamb; Romania 1992

Romania, 1992 / Praktica BX20S; Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm; Ilford Delta 100

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Imago Diem

It's Latin for 'image of the day'. Randomly selected images from my eclectic archive. Depicting whatever from wherever until whenever since November 2019. This is a sister site to the more static telltaleimages.com

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All photographic images are copyright © Gary Hill 1984-2020. All rights reserved. Not in public domain. If you wish to use my work for anything other than legal 'fair use' (i.e., non-profit educational or scholarly research, or critique purposes, with proper attribution) please contact me for permission first. I don't bite!

Inspiration

Jim Mortram
To my mind, probably the finest documentary photographer
working in the UK today. Except he doesn't do this for a living; all the people whose lives he chronicles are known to him personally. Strikingly honest photography.

Bert Hardy
British documentary and news photographer who had a gift for capturing the gritty streets and no-frill lives of people living in the poorest districts of post-war Britain.

Ara Güler
The respected Armenian-Turkish documentary and portrait photographer, who denied photography was an art form, travelled the world photographing celebrities. But his monochrome images depicting the working class people of mid-20th century Istanbul are the images that stand out for me.

Jane Bown
British newspaper photographer who photographed many ordinary folk, but mainly famous people, especially those associated with the arts. For many years she used only a simple camera, an Olympus OM1, a standard 50mm lens and available light.