The Wonderful World of Walter
The main intention of my project is to show the beauty of everyday street life. By using a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye initially designed to capture snapshots (of people’s lives), alongside the technical approach of modern street photography, the viewer observes a series of Impressionistic images. The series of twenty-one images elaborates on how the ordinary, undiscovered, and overlooked elements of the fictional persona (Walters’) life are wondrous and enchanting. As Walter is a rather shy and introverted character, his images were never printed and were simply left as film negatives for documentational and educational purposes. Following the discovery of these moments (negative sleeves) I, Russell Katz have decided to print a selection of images to display how Walter’s old technical technique works in conjunction with his modern perspective of street photography.