photos of old people

mighty poppy

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:12:02 +0000

This is Poppy. He lives just outside of Gander, Newfoundland. He is 80. He still builds houses, bakes and cleans, and is very competent on his laptop.

Favourtie quote: When teaching him new things about Facebook: “Stop now, you’re confusing me. Pretty soon I won’t know the Wall from the floor.”

alpaca man

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:58:34 +0000

Trying to pick a cafe in Salamanca Square, Hobart, we spotted what we thought was a large brown goat. Both the alpaca and her owner were very friendly, but we only cuddled and took loads of pictures with one of them.

mont royal musician

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:53:24 +0000

We were crossing Rue St-Denis at Avenue du Mont-Royal when came across a man playing the accordion on the corner. We asked if we could take his photo; he smiled and said (in french): “Everyone wants to take my photo! Must be the music.”

my grandma

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:35:58 +0000

This is my grandma. She is 84 years old and she has alzheimers. When I showed her the photographs she said: “who is that old woman?”

pole man

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:17:45 +0000

We met him crossing the road in Recoleta. Asked if we could take a photo of him and he was very obliging. It was tough because the sun was coming from behind; we wanted him to move so that we could get better light, but he couldn’t understand us and we couldn’t understand him and it seemed like he just really wanted to hold on to that pole and face that particular way. How do you say “this is my good side” in Spanish?

cameraman

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:49:42 +0000

He was wandering around Recoleta near the cemetary with an old-fashioned (like 1920s old) camera selling potraits. He asked if he could take our picture and then we asked if we could take his.

do you like my haircut?

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:44:33 +0000

That’s what he asked as he walked out of the barber’s.

portraits by marie part i

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:06:33 +0000

“I’d like to travel a bit more; the only travelling we had was in the troupe ships, everything was blacked out. I’d like to be able to have one of those holiday things.”

- Henry

“One of the things I’d like to have done if I’d started earlier would be a degree in sociology at university.”

- John

From Window to the Soul 2005 by Marie Sinclair (see Marie’s flickr feed)

plaza 25 de agosto

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:57:04 +0000

we were in the main square in colonia, uruguay. he really wanted both of the dogs to look at the camera. we tried a few times, but they just wouldn’t.

bongo bob

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:34:40 +0000

“saw him in the lower east side sitting outside this little shop. went up to him because he had a cool hat, was smoking a cigar and had an eye patch. had to convince him to take a photo with the patch on – he wanted to take it off because he said he looked like the terminator. said he used to play the bongos at bluenote and that i should check it out.” – pitythecool