In April 1984, I traveled with my brother Sean on a whirlwind trip through Queens and Brooklyn on the New York City Subway. This was during the graffiti era when most of the trains were covered inside and out with tags and ad-hoc murals.
I made a series of photos on this adventure using my 1930s-era Leica 3A (with 50mm Summitar lens) loaded with Kodak Plus-X, which I’d bulk loaded into re-useable cassettes.
On the way to Coney Island, I made this view of an inbound M-train from the front of an outbound train near the ‘W. 8 Street’ station .
While some small prints of this trip that have populated my 1980s photo album for the last 40 years, the original negatives had been waylaid until relatively recently. Finally, I located the missing original photos and scanned them last weekend.
In May 2000, on one of two visits to Prague that Spring, I made this view deep below the streets of Soviet-era metro cars.
While the cars seemed old, the Metro was clean, quick and heavily used. However, there was a little bit of graffiti that emulated the style of New York City subway graffiti from the 1970s.
I exposed this Fujichrome color slide with my Nikon F3T.
