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Jacob Lindell’s NYC Street Photography Captures the Smallest Interactions

Chris Gampat
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06/23/2014
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All images by Jacob Lindell. Used with permission.

“The everyday ordinary… and everything else.” says photographer Jacob Lindell on what motivates him to take photos.

Jacob isn’t really sure how he got into street photography, but he does it every day. “I don’t know when it started but I remember having this feeling of wanting to document certain moments. It could be at a party, walking on the street or simply sitting on a bench and enjoying the sun and it would annoy the shit out of me if I didn’t have the means to do it.” says Mr Lindell. “So then I finally decided to bring my camera with me everywhere.”

Coining himself as a bit of a nomad, Jacob was born in Stockholm, Sweden then moved to Monaco, then Germany, then Canada, then Germany again, Sweden, Holland, Paris, New York, and is currently making a nest in London. His folks work in the advertising and design world, and so he was naturally exposed to creativity. “A huge part of that was documentation of ideas, projects, process, etc. as well as having the ability to do it yourself instead of relying on others. I guess this is what really got me started with photography. It was out of necessity.” says Jacob.

But Jacob’s work in NYC is what really fascinates us. He used to shoot with a D700 and a handful of primes, but then switched to his mother’s first camera: an Olympus OM-1. These days he totes around a Leica M6 TTL and 35mm Summicron.

Mr. Lindell believes that what differentiates New York and London so much is proximity. The design of the city stacks things on top of one another. It allows the atmosphere to create the small interactions that Jacob thinks usually go unnoticed.

More of his photos are after the jump.

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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