Don’t Call Clay Benskin a Street Photographer

Three years after Clay Benskin told a photographer friend he could take better pictures with a smartphone, he has produced thousands of images. But he still doesn’t see himself as a street photographer.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/dont-call-clay-benskin-a-street-photographer/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

Clay Benskin weaves his way through the crowded sidewalks of Lower Manhattan, apparently invisible to the people streaming past him. He is not a small man. Yet even as his camera gets to within inches of someone’s face, the person doesn’t flinch.