Yesterday at 4.30pm I noticed a gold "human statue" busker sleeping on a downtown NQR subway platform bench in New York.
I was sat on an uptown track bench, took a cellphone photo, caught a train and went to my photoshoot walkthrough on Park Avenue.
When I returned, the man was still there and so I went back to my apartment, grabbed a real camera, placed it on the bench and began taking still images. Each image told a story and as I began to take them I realized that they would make extraordinary frames of a video if run as a sequence.
In the next hour, I watched as hundreds of people came and went. Some didn't notice him, some avoided him and some also were captivated by him.
He was taking time off work while everyone was leaving work. He was being really still with no effort, so sort of sleeping on the job, but didn't earn a penny. The city was bustling, the commuters commuting, while he was dozing.
Several people sat next to me and saw what I was doing. An old lady said I could be arrested, a young tourist from Cairo with broken English sat to watch with me for a while and an Irish accented American woman and I discussed politics and laughed a lot about life.
It was a New York moment, something we can all see wherever we live, if we look. The surreal, bizarre or out of place visuals of life. The poor black man dressed in gold, his tranquility amidst bustle of life and imagining his dreams in A City of Broken Dreams. Capitalism and Crapitalism.
I have been waiting for the right video to use the Midnight Cowboy harmonica track by John Barry. For many reasons, this one seems perfect.
Adrian Wilson is an award winning Interior Design and Architectural Photographer based in New York City. He shoots for a variety of clients big and small, mainly in the USA and Europe. High end clients from Apple to Victoria's Secret right down to individual designers all get the same quality, creativity and care.
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