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#79
Niki Williams
Palo Alto, CA
2/11/2025
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Making pictures in the streets is an act of witnessing. Being in direct engagement with
the shifting visual rhythms of public life.
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Jose and his chainsaw, Shotwell Street in the Mission, San Francisco. |
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Walking around with a camera is an opportunity to shape random encounters, catalogue space, and note the quality and timing of light.
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Brandon and his catch, a Dungeness Crab, Ocean Beach, San Francisco. |
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Downtown San Francisco, viewed from Buena Vista Park. |
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A camera is not a neutral tool but a means of negotiation, an extension of one’s presence, curiosity, and ethical responsibility.
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The sketchbook I carry with me when I work in the streets to
show people what my pictures are like. |
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To document is to participate, to resist detachment, to acknowledge that every photo made occurs within a enormous, shared and unfolding narrative.
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Silvio removes his dentures, Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco. |
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The decisive moment is a myth—what matters is immersion, the willingness to embrace failure and discovery in equal measure.
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Marianne is from France, she is in town for a romantic fling with woman in Oakland,
Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco. |
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Street photography thrives on contradiction: chaos and order, proximity and distance, detachment and deep empathy.
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Edgar has great boots, Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco. |
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Ocean Beach, San Francisco. |
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I like to walk 10 miles to take 10 photographs.
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Kenny on Mission Street, San Francisco. |
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Walking is slow, you have a lot of time to see things and for me it is the lowest barrier to stopping and asking someone to collaborate on a picture. I carry one flash in my pocket and my camera on my shoulder, so I am constantly taking snapshots, in the words of Takuma Nakahira I become a camera.
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James at his house near Alamo Square, San Francisco. |
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I was watching a youtube vid about how eyes work and freaked out. Everything is an electric signal.
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Dr. Elliot on Valencia, San Francisco. |
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Our eyes are simply cameras for our brain to crystalize memories in electric tissues.
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Speaking of, I made a short film about my friend and fellow photographer Jett Lara.
Watch it here.
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A volunteer leads a dog named Dustball to his new adoption shelter in the Bay Area, after being evacuated from his shelter in Los Angeles due to the wildfires. For the SF Standard. |
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This Month’s Commercial Work Includes:
Creating stills and video for Rhythm
and Motion, a dance studio in the Mission.
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This week I am going to be in NYC for work and can’t wait to see
that Weegee Show at the ICP…
See you!
-Niki
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