A great street snapper.

Nothing gets my pulse racing so much as an entry hitting my RSS feed from Joseph O. Holmes, perhaps the finest street snapper working today. A few years back he did a wonderful series on the fishmongers at the now defunct Fulton Fish Market on the lower East side of Manhattan (sadly no longer available on line – see below) and it’s a rare occasion on which Holmes does not thrill with his fabulous color photography of New York City.

There’s a gripping interview with the photographer on the ‘From the Desk of’ site which you can read by clicking the picture below:

Click the picture for the interview.

I was especially taken by this quote:

Kate Donnelly’s site is a fine read and you can visit Holmes’s site ‘Joe’s NYC’ by clicking here.

Fulton Fish Market series:

I left a comment on Kate’s site lamenting the fact that Joe’s Fulton Fish Market series, some of the finest reportage ever and taken at a ridiculous time in the morning, was no longer on line, and Joe was kind enough to restore his pictures, which I first referred to five years ago, here.