This photo of gang members is from
Culver City, LA 1988. My Karate Dojo was a few blocks away. I came all the way
from Jerusalem to practice with our chief instructor of our system in karate Do.
This picture was taken after a primary a black belt practice which is used to
be referred to as Sunday Practice. Practicing with our chief instructors
Tsutomu Ohshima sensei, taking his class was like taking a class with Vaslav
Nijinsky combined with a Medieval Warrior. One would come out of this practice
with a boost of energy and positivity. So this photograph was taken after one
of these practice. I drove down the street of Venice Boulevard, just about 10
minutes away from the dojo, there was a parking lot and on the corner of it, a
stand alone pink booth owned by a very nice Japanese cook and with his broken
English, he would serve you the most amazing hamburgers, simply out of this
world. That Sunday afternoon I was lucky, I came across this group of gang
members and we were sitting in adjacent tables. We start talking and I start
shooting- they were fascinated with my camera, not to mention willing to take
photographs of strangers. I had my Nikon FM2 with 35mm prime lens f2. on a
Tri-X,(Printed on Ilford Fibre paper) When I got to the end of the roll, I opened
the back of the camera to load a fresh roll of film , and one of
the gang members said, “G you really have film in it, and you are really taking
pictures.” One needs to remember this was before the Digital era, and
carrying a camera everywhere was still an unusual practice.
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