Karambala, this is the lady in the brown hat, photographed with Nikkor AF 70-210mm, f4-5.6 Snapshot was made in conditions of cloudy weather. Woman appeared suddenly in front of me and moved rather quickly. It is also question of ethics to photograph people in the street when they maybe don’t want this to be photographed. [...]
Incredible popularity of rosy cafe among older women. Cafe Aida. Spinnst du? (Are you crazy?) Hurra-a-a! Galina has the new lens at last! She is preoccupied now only with one thought: why construction of human head is so that humans don’t see what is going on behind their back. If they go along dark street [...]
Collaboration, that is what I seek. I seek it, but never find. The thought of the day: my human relationships are imperfect and always will be so; imperfections cause sufferings, and sufferings reconciliate me with the absence of all and any relationships, with nothingness. We are mortally afraid and at the same time unconsciously strive [...]
Kallypso, my dear self, you know that usually I start my everyday street hunt with great enthusiasm. But gradually becoming tired, struggling forward and finding nothing interesting to shoot, frozen, hungry, I feel misery. Shoulder with camera bag aches. It is not so easy to find original face in the street at all. After so [...]
Whenever pink morning light transits to yellow of midday, and wind blowing from Schmelz stops bringing meditative tunes of kukus bird, I start my everyday journey. Mirror in my small flat is the gateway. I step behind it and as invisible clot of energy roll outside. Together with gust of wind I move along streets [...]
Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo by author Audacious I am presenting here collection of photos depicting small beggars in Vienna streets. Very often they are accompanied by adults who hide themselves somewhere and then take away collected rewards. I photographed already so often the beggars, that knew all of them in the face. [...]
