I had a chance to spend the afternoon with Robert Frank this past weekend and the experience was nothing short of amazing.

He was gracious, welcoming and had wonderful stories. I brought along a copy of the Americans expanded edition and as he went through it he smiled and reminisced about some of those moments. He talked about rangefinder photography and how it just seemed to “fit” him. He played with my Leica M8 and was amazed to find that it felt similar to his M6. When I asked him what he thought about digital photography he replied “Its great, a camera is a camera its what you do with it.”

I cannot even put into words what it was like to spend time with one of the world’s most influential photographers. I got to take a quick portrait of him before leaving and as I went to my car he told me to “Keep looking……keep making photographs.”

Photo info: Leica M8u 35mm 1.4 CV mc at 500th, 1.4 iso 320

Cheers,

Tobin