Mike Smith's street photography, published for the first time in 'Streets of Boston', offers a wonderful time capsule to a different era.
, where he'd grown up and was working as a messenger to supplement his studies at Massachusetts College of Art. The role made him privy to all corners of the city, and he captured those he encountered as he moved through it. Almost half a century on, he’s publishing a selection of the work taken during this period, entitled "I was carrying documents all over Boston, and that allowed me to get into places where I normally would not have been," Mike explains over a Zoom call.
Initially interested in a more candid approach to street photography, the portraits began with an incident in 1976, when Mike was chased by an angry man who tripped and fell in pursuit."Before that, it was more gestural and fluid work," he says, revisiting the memory."When that man fell, I decided to change things and started taking portraits with a 35mm camera. Shortly after, I bought a larger format camera — it was very distinct, you could say.
An earlier course Mike had studied in social work — which he dropped out of to attend art college — offered him a framework to explore his interest in people, behaviour and identities appropriately."I think it was natural for me to photograph people, that was what I did in Vietnam mostly, and when I started at the college, I just gravitated towards people. I never understood why people would take a picture of a tree, for instance, or photograph the city.
"I don't know by what means, but people would open up and trust me very quickly," he continues, reflecting on the intimacy between subject and photographer."I think I wasn't particularly threatening; I expressed an interest in people, and I think everyone likes attention — that's what I was doing, paying attention to other people. I don't know what triggered it, it wasn't a particular person or type of look, but I was out each day, all day long.
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