Drifters, I write you a short note from the Eternal City, where the rain — when it falls — is not hard enough to keep me inside. I’m here in Rome leading a study abroad trip with 13 eager students. But when the students set off to do student things on their free time, I slip away into the drizzle with my camera. They want nothing to with an old guy like me anyway....
Introduction In December of 2021, I spent a few days walking the streets of Bordeaux with a Sony a7 III tethered to my wrist.1 After flipping through Sergio Larrain’s book Londres in a bookstore, and reading his wonderful letter to his nephew on how to be a photographer, I felt inspired and set out with the intention of documenting life on the street. The Sony a7 III isn’t marketed or thought of as a street or a travel camera....