Month: September 2015

Couples

The couple on the left had been married 60 years when they randomly met the couple on the right who had been married for about 60 seconds. Wedding photographers thrive here in the outer banks and I was a renegade shooting a wedding to which I had not been invited. So I made friends with …

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Workers

These guys have been working on my street cutting dead branches from the trees all week. I’ve been bringing them water and coffee just like my mum and opa used to do for tradies working back home. Here the guy with the chainsaw is hanging from a higher branch, held only by his three mates …

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Changing clothes

Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo. A change of clothes into something less revealing signals the end of work and we go and drink a beer.

Sex workers

Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo. I’ve become friends with a number of the sex workers in the neighbourhood where I’m living. This woman is a transvestite and from the moment we met she has been honest, open and holds my safety as a priority. I know it’s not all a paradise, not all …

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Free condoms

Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo. I know these photos aren’t coming along in real time but last night I was focussed on the people I was spending time with – talking, photographing, being aware of the light and the street. Here a council worker is handing out free condoms for the sex workers.

Day 1

Day 1: Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo. I’ve spent the day at university and the night on the street photographing the people working in my neighbourhood. I would like to share more photographs with you from tonight but it’s 3 in the morning here and I need to get some sleep, uni again …

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Hello

Hey, my name is Ben McGee (@mcgeesees), I’m an Australian who recently moved to São Paulo. I first came to Brazil as part of my studies in geology and decided there were lots of stories I wanted to record with my camera. After a couple of years setting up I’m back! Over the next two …

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Book Publishing Workshop

  Students taking my book publishing workshop starting next week will be on this rooftop soonest. My Brooklyn space always makes the near perfect workshop location. Lots of work gets done, plenty of outside guest presenters, and we have a lot of fun doing it#davidalanharveyworkshops

Bridesmaid Catch

Katie makes the bridesmaid catch!! Or did she? Some witnesses say she stole the corsage from another bridesmaid who actually caught it. I was shooting rapid burst on the iPhone and have photo proof of what actually happened. Yet this is the only one in the sequence I will publish. One way or another Katie …

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