Marci Lindsay
I currently live in Washington, DC, and am still rather new to shooting street photography. I went to college and then started a short-lived career as a city planner in NYC, and if anyone had told me then that I would soon be in Iowa raising four kids, I would have told them they were looking in the wrong crystal ball. We moved every few years, hitting suburbs in Virginia, New York, and Austin. I hope I am now finally and permanently a city dweller again, and also that I will continue to be able to see the world, as I was happily doing in pre-Covid days.
About The Collection…
I fell in love with street photography when I was a child, long before I knew it had a name. My parents had exactly one photo book, and it included work by the likes of Elliott Erwitt, Helen Levitt, Robert Doisneau, Garry Winogrand, and more. Later, studying in Paris, I spent money I didn’t have on a book of Magnum photographers’ work. But it wasn’t for another 35 years that I took up the challenge of photographing in the streets myself!
These photos reflect my version of holding up a mirror to the world I see and capturing moments that most people would never notice. To me they are far more interesting—and funnier—than anything we could make up. I am drawn to ordinary people doing ordinary things. To me, it’s all extra- ordinary—gesture, connection, humor, and our workaday lives. We humans are so much more the same than we are different, and hopefully my photos remind people of that.
