Fulton Street
Route One, in Maine, follows the Atlantic coastline. Side by side with the water, sand, and gnarled landscape there are charming towns, scenic fishing villages, fancy oceanfront resorts, lobster shacks, and chique new restaurants that sell locally brewed beers and sustainably farmed food. Tourist brochures for Maine offer peaceful retreats and family-fun experiences; it is a “vacationland” as the license plates of this state would have it.
Yet, Maine is as real as anywhere else. In Rockland, I was wandering the streets looking for something that would touch me and inspire photographs, when I stumbled onto Fulton Street. There, I had the opportunity to spend a few afternoons with one particular family and their friends – catching a moment of their everyday life. It was on Fulton Street that I was taken by these people to the palpable world of working families in the heart of “vacationland.” I was fortunate for this chance encounter and their willingness to let me into their lives, briefly. These photographs do not so much tell about the experience as translate it.
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Fulton Street
Tamar Granovsky | Wanderings Afar and Near 
Great stuff. Some fun photos with interesting perspectives.
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i spent quite some time trying to get the kids to let their guards down rather than have them pose. it’s true after a while they do forget about you.
Touching images of ‘family life’ , and so much different from your previous style.
yes — after a few photography workshops i am trying to find my voice and ways to tell stories with as few visual words as possible. i would love to be able to write poetry with the photographic image.