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  • Waiting Room: Introducing StreetSoul Zine

    Waiting Room: Introducing StreetSoul Zine

    Black and white image of a woman posing with her arms raised, looking up, in front of a colorful carnival backdrop with game booths and decorations. The title 'Waiting Room' and subtitle 'StreetSoul Zine #001 September 2026' are overlaid at the bottom.

    StreetSoul Zine #001 · September 2026

    Waiting has a way of making people visible. A man sits with a cigarette. Another reads beside the water. A child takes up most of a bench; a few pages later, the bench is empty. The street carries on around them. It has other appointments.

    These photographs make up Waiting Room, the first issue of StreetSoul Zine. It is a sixteen-page digital zine of black-and-white street photography, held together by one idea. Waiting can look like rest, boredom, distraction, or a few minutes nobody knows what to do with. I do not know what each person was waiting for. The photographs have no need to settle the question.

    I wanted to see what happens when the pictures sit together. One face changes how we look at the next empty seat. A small gesture can carry over to a photograph made somewhere else. The pause between pages has its own part to play. It is a modest format, but there is room in it to slow down and notice what a single post can lose.

    That is how StreetSoul Zine will work: each issue will follow a different thread through the photographs. Starting today, followers of this site and the StreetSoul WhatsApp channel will receive it. If all goes to plan, I will publish a new issue every Sunday.

  • The City Has a Counter — sequence

    The City Has a Counter — sequence

    I keep coming back to the same small bargain: shopfront glass, numbers, a public fountain, a counter telling the hand where to stop.

    Barcelona is not scenery in these pictures. It gets in the way. It puts something between people and whatever they need: a pane of glass, a strip of metal, a place to wait, a rule nobody has bothered to write down.

    People adjust.
    They wait. Lean in. Pay. Drink. Move on.

    The street gives a little. Then it asks for something back.

    A woman with earbuds stands at a ticket window, interacting with an older man behind the glass. The scene is captured in black and white, with reflections visible in the glass.
    A person leaning over a decorative public drinking fountain, brushing their hair under the flowing water, with a store in the background.
    A person wearing a black shirt and a large backpack stands with their back to the camera in a narrow street, while another person sits crouched on the ground, appearing contemplative. The scene is captured in black and white, highlighting the urban environment with buildings and a motorcycle in the background.
    A woman sitting at a table in a café, looking pensively out of the window, with reflections of people and décor visible on the glass.
    A street scene in black and white featuring two individuals. One person stands casually against a wall near a closed gallery, while another is focused on their phone. The cobblestone street and urban environment add to the atmosphere.
  • Legit

    Legit

    A person leaning over an ornate public drinking fountain, splashing water on their head. The setting is urban, with a shop visible in the background.

    The city provides, but never cleanly.

    A man drinks from a public fountain.
    The sign says legit.
    The metal looks tired.
    The gesture does not.

    Barcelona is not a backdrop here. It is a system of small permissions: drink here, wait there, lean on this, keep moving.

    The body accepts the deal because sometimes that is all the street offers.

    Technical: Ricoh GR IV Monochrome · Lightroom Classic.