Preston Thomas

"YOU ARE WHAT AI WISHES IT COULD BE..." -Timothy Goodman Cortlandt Alley, Tribeca, NYC Captured by my daughter. #fuckai #ai #streetphotography #mobilephonephotography #nyc #graffiti

"Sensory Overload" 18" x 27" B/W Photograph #architecture #buildings #blackandwhite #bnw #abstract #photography #eck #streetphotography #foto #art #leica #fuckAI

"Entrance To The City" 21" x 14" B/W Photograph Piezography Print Canson Platine Fibre Rag #abstract #geometric #photography #eck #classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #foto #art #pentax

"A Stairway in La Habana" Havana, Cuba 14" x 21" Color Photograph Canson Platine Fibre Rag Paper #wanderlust #abstract #photography #eck #colorphotography #streetphotography #foto #art #pentax #humans #cuba

"Moon Overlooking Architecture" 18" x 12" B/W Photographic Print on Canson Platine Design: Studio Gang Architects #MinimalMonday #Monochrome #Architecture

"American Dream Negro" •Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Linen •36" x 36" This piece is from an ongoing project which includes photographs, music, text, and the occasional works on canvas. Juneteenth! More details in the ALT text. #Juneteenth #BlackLife #Artists #BlackSky #Ancestors

"A Gentleman Will Walk, But Never Run..." -Englishman In New York Gordon Sumner, aka Sting Leica M9 Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f/1.5 #photography #eck #classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #streetphotography #foto #leica #humans #art #mediumformat

"Paved Paradise" 27" x 18" Print Canson Platine Fiber Rag #miksang #abstract #photography #eck #colorphotography #streetphotography #foto #art #pentax #humanity #fuckAI #JoniMitchell

"Solo" Pentax 645n Cinestill XX B/W #filmphotography #photography #eck #classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #streetphotography #foto #humans #art #pentax #mediumformat

"The Getaway" La Habana, Cuba I first traveled to Havana after losing my mom back in 2014. A random escape. I had to get away. And like the little one on this bicycle, it didn't matter how. #photography #eck #cuba #havana #colorphotography #streetphotography #foto #humans #art #pentax #wanderlust

"Daughter at Pride" A shot of my daughter during the start of the Pride Parade in Chicago, a few years back. One of my most cherished captures. "HAPPY #PRIDE LIFE 🏳️‍🌈!" #photography #eck #leica #35mm #colorphotography #streetphotography #foto #humans #daughters #love #LGBTQ

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social Already? People gotta make community notes about your lies? WTF is wrong with you? You just got here, and already your credibility is in the toilet... bsky.app/profile/thet...

"They Hate Art" 1,000 Words. I found this after squeezing past a rusty gate that said "Do Not Enter." I could feel every bit of it. Pentax 645n Kodak Portra 160 #filmphotography #analog #photography #eck #colorphotography #streetphotography #foto #art #pentax #mediumformat #humans #fuckAI

"Let the Water Hold Me Down" Pentax 645n Kodak Portra 160 #filmphotography #analog #abstract #photography #eck #colorphotography #streetphotography #foto #art #pentax #mediumformat

"Askew in Green and Grey" #filmphotography #analog #abstract #geometric #eck #colorphotography #foto #art #pentax #mediumformat #miksang Pentax 645n Kodak Portra 400

"A Room with a View" Pentax 645n Cinestill XX BW #film #analog #photography #ekc #classicmono #scapes #blackandwhitephotography #pentax #bnw #streetphotography #foto #art

"Intersectional" Pentax 645n Cinestill XX BW #film #analog #photography #ekc #classicmono #scapes #blackandwhitephotography #pentax #bnw #streetphotography #foto #art

"I Think I Know Him" [ you've seen this man before always hangin 'round that door on the threshold of life he stands with his hopes and dreams in his hands... i think i know him. ] #photography #ekc #classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #streetphotography #foto #pentax #humans #art

"Rhapsody, No.1 & No.2" There were few things more satisfying than being the resident photographer at a dance school. It allowed access to the beautiful madness of choreography - an act of creation. I often thought of myself as “A Spy in the House of Dance.” #dance #photography #eck #red #ballet

"EI Empleo/ The Employment" Animated short film. Idea, Characters Design and Storyboard: Patricio Plaza Direction: Santiago 'Bou' Grasso and Patricio Plaza Animation: Santiago 'Bou' Grasso and Patricio Plaza Winner of 105 international awards. Argentina, 2008. vimeo.com/70788950 #animation

"The Red Residence" Harlem, NYC #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Architecture #eck #red

1. Sunrise Metropolis 2. The Last Outpost #LiminalSpaces The term comes from the Latin word "limen," meaning threshold. A Liminal Space is a place of transition, an in-between space that exists on the boundary of what came before and what has not yet arrived. #photography #minimalism #eck

#MetGala #JeffBezos

"Terrance In Two Acts" I asked him his name and he replied "Terrence..." In his voice, the sound of just a kid. #photography #ekc #classicmono #colorphotography #bnw #streetphotography #foto #leica #humans #art

"Flugelhorn 4The People" Hyde Park, Chicago #photography #ekc #classicmono #bnw #streetphotography #foto #leica #humans #art #musicians

"LATE NIGHT ON THE MALECÓN" Havana, Cuba, c.2016 #ECK #streetphotography #photography #classicmono #bnw #pentax #LaHabana #Cuba

"MORNING PRAYER TAPESTRY" c.2013 From a series of photographs I made around the passing of my mother, titled "Morning Prayer Lake" : #photography #scapeday #colorphotography #eck #sky #landscape #winter #loss #pentax

"THE BEACH AT LAWRENCE AVENUE" A few shots from an impromptu visit... : #photography #streetphotography #eck #bnwphotography #manualfocuslife #leica #people #serendipity #chicago

One in the can... #FP4Party #Pentax #Ilford

"RAIN" 1st and 2nd Iterations : #streetphotography #eck #photography #bnwphotography #manualfocus #classiclenses #pentax

#wordlesswednesday #landscape #architecture #waterscape #photography #leica #eck

"REQUIEM" : #weekkforkaput #alphabetchallenge #eck #bnwphotography #classicmono #streetphotography #leica

"PLAY AND REFLECTION OF BLACK BOYS" : #stunday #bnwphotography #streetphotography #eck #pentax #28mm #classiclenses

"UNTITLED, No.17" : #BlueSkyArtShow #horizontal #eck #photography #bnwphotography #blackandwhite #humans #pentaxian #manualfocus #classiclenses

"WAYWARD BALLERINAS ON HALSTED STREET" #HumansOfBlueSky #Ballerinas #BlackGirlMagic #Dance #bnwphotography #ECK #ClassicLenses #Pentax

"The Conversation at Do-Rite Donuts and Coffee" : #streetphotography #colorphotography #people #eck #chicago #leica #red

"JOHN 1:31 | THEREFORE I AM COME BAPTIZING WITH WATER" #Pentax ME Super K 28mm f/3.5 #Ilford XP2 #blueskyartshow #flowing #bnwphoto #filmphotography #analog

"A Long Day's Journey into Night" #streetphotography #bnwphotography #classicmono #EastCoastKin

RODGER'S NEWS STAND Southside of Chicago | c.2016 This news stand, which closed a few years after I made this photograph, was purchased in 1945, by Tommie Rodgers, Sr. Black History is American History. #StreetPhotography #BlackHistory #EastCoastKin #Monochrome #Pentax #ClassicLenses

"The Crucifix" A little something from my journal. www.preston.camera/journal/the-... #Photography #StreetPhotography #Humans #Stories #EastCoastKin

"Doorway Filled with a Black Girl's Magic" 24" x 16" www.preston.camera/lens-a-black... #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Dance #BlackGirlMagic #EastCoastKin

"The Water Dance" 24" x 16" www.preston.camera/lens-a-black... #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Dance #BlackGirlMagic #EastCoastKin

"Fleeting Light | First Days of Winter, c.2023" 21 x 14 Black and White Photograph Archival Pigment Print A Daymark (day marker) stands on post at the end of the jetty, guiding me home. #EastCoastKin #BlackandWhite #Photography #Monochrome #ArtistsofBluesky

Malécon | Arriving in La Habana, c.2014 Two more from a series of photographs I made from the back of a '56 Bel Air convertible. There is a painterly / surreal texture to these images. Perhaps because the car was moving. Or... maybe that's just #Havana. #Dreamland #EastCoastKin #Photography

Malécon | Arriving in La Habana, c.2014 Remembering a bittersweet time. My first trip to Havana, shortly after losing my mother. A coping mechanism. My entrance to the city, I made a series of photographs from the back of a '56 Bel Air convertible. Dreamland. #Havana #EastCoastKin #Photography

This has to be said. #USA #FACISM #TRAITORS