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This project was an outgrowth of a documentary project created while in graduate school in San Francisco and started with the busker scenes there. Later it continued to several Baltic and European port cities where my ship contracts sent me. The images were shot in the spring, summer and autumn of 2012. Busking entails playing music or other performative acts on the street for donations. Part documentary, part street photography, and part creative portraiture, my goals were to visually and dramatically present each busker and to tell stories that help bring a better understanding and dignity to the art and its performers. The project taught me about street life, ingenuity and the value of having a successful performance talent - one I employed myself occasionally by busking with my saxophone for extra cash. This project was also presented on one of my first Adobe Muse sites - self-published in 2012 - which includes additional images and some as diptychs.

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