Many people don’t know this about me but I shoot street photography as a way to blow some steam when I’m stressed out.

The idea of confronting strangers and noticing interesting characters is really invigorating to me.

As part of this process I use a 1973 Minolta film camera. Not seeing the photos right away is super refreshing and it allows you to focus on the scene at hand

Being that it’s completely manual focus increases the thrill factor because on the street you have just split seconds to get your shot focused just right.

Anyway took this street photo of a random stranger in Park Slope Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago using flash, after developing it I asked my French friend to translate what it says on the bag and it was literally “Leave me alone…”