Street Chair, new pho­tographs by Anne Saint Peter

Street Chairs.  It doesn’t mat­ter what city or coun­try, or whether you’re walk­ing or dri­ving by.  They indulge us for a respite. We oblige and pause to con­tem­plate their scene.  We become a part of it. And because they are dif­fer­ent, they evoke a sense of fun in us.

The pho­tos are taken quickly, mov­ing from chair to chair, try­ing to get to them before some­one sits down. They’re shot with immediacy—camera in hand, iPhone, toy cam­era, film, and occa­sion­ally, a DSLR. They are then refined to bring out their char­ac­ter­is­tics of color, shapes, shad­ows, and loca­tion. The best part is not only remem­ber­ing the loca­tion of each set of chairs, but hav­ing the oppor­tu­nity to go and recap­ture them again and again. Some­times I just sit in them.  Mostly, I love cap­tur­ing their portraits.

Anne Saint Peter, 2012

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