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 goal was to tell stories that help bring a better understanding and dignity to the art of busking and its performers.