My mate, Coconut Rob, a British Ex Pat & now a Fort Greene, (Brooklyn), fixture during the warmer months, perched himself atop a stoop on S Eliot Place just off of Fulton Street, with his good friend Adeleke Sijuwade a designer whom works between Africa & the USA.
There were only two shots taken in this moment, one of which I captured them both staring into the lens’ eye quite sternly and then this one. I favoured the latter because a local friend of theirs walked past behind me before shouting back to them jovially, ‘Always looking tip-top, Brothers! ‘
This instantly set free the hard gaze they held and exchanged it for this feel good vibe, leaving me with a natural capture…
