better left unsaid

On our way back up through mid­town we came across a mas­sive street fes­ti­val along 6th Avenue. It stretched for blocks and blocks and it seemed the sea of peo­ple never ended. There were neigh­bour­hood fes­ti­vals all over the city that week­end, with ven­dors of all kinds, food stalls and tons of per­form­ers. It really made the city come to life. It was a lit­tle sur­pris­ing, then it felt com­pletely nat­ural to have all these peo­ple in the streets hang­ing out together hav­ing fun and get­ting along.

I wish cities like Hal­i­fax would do more of this sort of thing. If NYC can shut down blocks and blocks of major down­town streets on the week­end to get peo­ple together and pro­mote local busi­nesses, there’s no rea­son — other than lack of vision — to do this here. Any­way, it was great to be a small part of this fun. You can see the Radio City Music Hall sign up on the right, about four blocks up.

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: #15 deep yel­low
Film: Fuji Neopan 400
Devel­oper: Rod­i­nal 1+50
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 11 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for the first thirty sec­onds, then five inver­sions per minute.
Date: May, 2010
Loca­tion: 40.757378,-73.982176
Copy­right: 2010 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: blackandwhite · mamiyaC33 · mediumformat · newyorkcity · people · street
Posted in: Photographs
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