Here is the kind of photography I really enjoy taking: coincidental associations. A tuba player playing the Star Wars theme, which I must have heard him do many times before. To complete the scene a street sign showing the direction of City Recital Hall - how appropriate.
The sign of this beggar says: “I need to work to eat and I need to eat to work. Catch 22” and his second board says “No house, no home, no phone, brain damage, no family support, desperate”.
I must say when I saw him and these two signs I though these were the wittiest homeless boards I have seen to date. I wonder if he only knows the phrase of “Catch 22″ or has he also read the very cleverly written novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Heller demonstrates, in prosaic term, quite a philosophical dilemma, where little choice exists and although a remote possibility exists for desired to occur the reality is such that it never happens.
This photograph of a balding man against a backdrop of a construction site with a sign “The bald man is coming!” is probably a very typical coincidence humour captured by street photographers.
One of the most enjoyable situations to photograph in the street occur when unrelated elements in the view suddenly align to form a new, combined scene. Here we have a man, a woman and a man shaped cut out sign all looking in the same direction. Naturally something may have captured the attention of the man and the woman but to have it occur at the point where the cutout man is looking at creates somehow humorous situation.
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