For 12 years in the 1980s and ’90s, Richard Bram photographed the Kentucky Derby Festival, a two-week event leading up to the famous horse race. He was…
For 12 years in the 1980s and ’90s, Richard Bram photographed the Kentucky Derby Festival, a two-week event leading up to the famous horse race. He was often assigned to cover the “chow wagon” events that were held at night and drew large crowds. Most people came to the festival to hang out, have a few drinks, and eat some unhealthy food.
I still haven’t put my finger on why I like street photography so much. Maybe because it allows us to look at unfiltered human behavior or maybe it’s because of the juxtapositions of humanity and architecture. New York photographer, Richard Bram, looks
The work feels contemporary and well seen, reflecting hidden cultural phenomenons allowing for a Where’s Waldo pleasure of finding much more below the surface when the work is revisited. Working Title: Significant Gestures captures isolation, anger, technology, stress, what we consume, and even American Girl Dolls in just a few images–truly capturing the human experience at this moment in time
The Underground is a great leveller – all types of people are there in the cars and on the platforms going to and fro, as am I. In this intensely public space, one retreats into a different kind of ‘public privacy.
Like the Angel, this one was a gift from the Gods. My wife and I were heading down the escalator at Bank Station to go to dinner. She saw the couple first and elbowed me. I had just enough time to focus and shoot one frame as the escalators quickly drew us together. Only later on the contact sheet did I really see the countdown posters on the wall that make the photograph rise above being just another photo of people kissing.
