Free Smiles

I had lunch today with fellow poster Kurt Kamka, just back for a visit to the United States from the streets of Manila in the Philippines where he has been photographing this past year.

He had told me that he would bring along an art book of some of his latest work called “Free Smiles”. The book is 250 pages of fantastic street photos from Manila, shot with his S2 in Black and White.

He is too modest, so let me toot his horn for him.
The work is WOW.

You can see a preview of the book here:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3331564
Or just search Blurb.com for “Free Smiles”

It’s very nice that he shot the street work with the S2, as it will allow him to have a gallery showing with a number of the shots enlarged huge. I encouraged him to comment here on his technique for getting people to allow him to photograph them so openly with a good sized camera, when they speak Spanish, and he speaks English.

I have never seen such a wonderfully thick art book, much less one that has so many excellent photos. So I naturally took a few shots of him with his book, shown here.

Is it possible that my photos of Kurt were taken with yet to be released Monochrome S3 with pancake 50mm lens? Perhaps it should be called the Leica S&M. No, they were shot with an S2 with a 35mm.

Let’s encourage Kurt to post some more of his shots from the book on Red Dot.
Great work Kurt.