Weber Taxi

A former self-described "mediocre" graphite and taxi operator who has photographed the New York street since 1978, Matt Weber has traveled and seen a little of everything across the entire state. Sensitivity in his work shows a professional who has always been in harmony with the rhythm, fellowship and ideal of New York, both good and evil.

Weber didn't want to become a photojournalist intentionally: it had nothing to do with wanting to become a road photojournalist. Driven a cab and I saw so many mad things on the road, that I kept saying, "Damn, I have to buy a cam. "In 1978, riding a taxi downtown at four in the afternoon on the nightshift when you saw the film Taxi Driver, that was the outside word.

Times Square was insane, it was a perilous part of it. Weber's work is a democracy. Photographing the realities of the cities, no motif seems to be above or below him to catch it. When he began to take his studies and photograph more seriously, the width and comprehension of his work also increased.

Wanted to begin taking photographs of what was remaining. Essentially, my early works were only documentation of the town, with a few interesting streetscapes being inserted. Then at one point, I just wanted to see another photograph and get to know a little more about it and so I purchased a few book and went to a few exhibitions and at that point I was like, sacred crap, there's this whole universe that I didn't comprehend.

Whilst some ( and Webers') photographs have a distinctive look at their work, he does not think of the look as his work. Instead, he thinks more about his own personal approach to the contents of his work. It is the human beings he selects, the moment he perceives, the emotion and the story that he sees and knows.

The point of the style is more what you fire than how you fire it. When I get older, I begin to play a game by rearranging colours and trying to take beautiful photos without simply trying to photograph my own lives, but photographing my own lives is somehow worthwhile. One gets lucky ones, one gets loved ones, one gets unhappy ones when humans are on the streets, and one gets furious ones when humans are struggling.

Weber's occupation stretched from a decayed, fanciful shelter for outcast in the advanced 1970s to a international municipality of abundance and diversion in the class aft September 11. Images from the Lower East Side and now they're important. Look at the deserted auto in the center of the parking space on fourth avenue where old Junkies walk around - or Times Square.

If you bring four or five together, you begin to think you can do anything. Weber, as you may be able to guess, has many interesting biographies from the exploration of the New York roads, but here is my favorite: Got a gunshot fired on 95th Avenue. While he no longer takes a taxi and shoots out the windows, Weber's modern work is just as productive and interesting.

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