From 1990 – 1995 I worked on a street portrait project – whenever I had time I took the subway to a different neighborhood with my Hasselblad to take photos of the people and the hood. Last week I saw the  Vivian Maier show at Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC – she was a nanny that took street portraits in her spare time in Chicago in the 1950’s

The show prompted me to look through my own archive – although my images are only about 20 years old they have a ‘vintage reportage’  feel.  Both of these are shot on 5th Avenue,  the Guardian Angels at a Puerto Rican day parade (above) and Irish girls on St Patricks’s day (below). New York is such a great city to shoot people on the street.