Hanging out with street photographer Sean Cirillo -- Walkie Talkie #22 

i love that you have the photographers photos in the videos intermittently, it makes it much more engaging

lmao the audio being lowered @ 13:17 killed me haha

So happy to see him on here finally. One of the best real dudes I met when I was out there.

Im only half way through the episode, but had to take a break to congratulate you on the episode and this whole series. I have not found anything like this elsewhere. You are building a community in New York but also online. I was at the Aipad show on friday, and there were fantastic photos (too expensive for me), but i would rather support contemporary street photographers like you and your guests. Would live to see a couple of episodes of darkroom process both b&w and color. Thanks, John

I could watch these all day I hope they never stop

So cool seeing you in action! Your desire to contribute your photography to the history of this great city is an admirable.

Gotta respect a man who develops and prints himself in a darkroom 😎

Another great episode. Can't get enough of it 🙂

I think NY street photography can be great and each different artist lends their own perspective but I think it's also important to document where you are and not feel like you need to be in a certain place to be a street photographer.

my favorite one yet. i like this dude

his darkroom work is neat, excellent.

Love your videos ❤ I think you should do a series where you meet NEW photographers & interview them right on the spot. I think you have the power and platform to help others achieve recognition out there in the streets.

Been waiting for this one! Great episode.

Epic video again. Love those roof shots, pity he moved on, maybe he can do both. Thanks for sharing, loved every second !!!

Love the in depth interviews as always!

Another great one, Pauli.

love this episode!!

lets gooooo its Sean!

Let’s go Sean! Super talented. Great interview.

Thanks for this episode Paulie and Reuben.

Sean the man !

I love all these videos, it really shows the range of different street photographers and there's really nothing that stops people to go out and just shoot. I do wonder though, how does each of them support themselves financially, how many of them can turn their photos into profit, cuz films are really expensive these days, and it doesn't seems to me that easy to make a living by street photography.

Bro got some good shots in real time no joke

The rooftop work is beautiful man. I wouldn’t give that up entirely. 🏙

Thanks for the video. It's nice to see New York alive again. Ottawa Canada here.

Always excited to see a new video from you man

Love to see our boy finally appear on Walkie Talkie! You need to get out to his darkroom for a print day video sometime!

Great guy, inspiring and entertaining video!

Another killer episode, Paulie!

Another great one

Sean!!

love Sean's work and im so glad that you guys were friends first because it made this walkie talkie so sick to consume

I always stop what I’m doing when a walkie talkie drops. Awesome interview I always learn a little more about the struggles of street photography. Curious if you think about traveling to the west coast or Chicago to do some interviews.

Good shit, Paulie👌🏾

Buncha dawgs!!!

I'm also a sucker for a cowboy hat

Yeiii!

Ye bro another solid interview!

Didn't know you're Filipino til I checked your IG bro. Really great content here. Hopefully I can get some motivation from your videos. Cheers

Bought my first m body January 2020 so I feel that

When he started to sing in the end lmao, i am dead 😂😂

Man that regret is shared--I wish I would have bought that SLR instead of the camcorder I got going into the Air Force =/ Shot like two tapes with that stupid thing and that's it. Now it's probably either in a thrift store bargain bin somewhere or the trash.

I grew up in Oceanside, Westlake Ave.

Are modeling releases needed for these images? I also have a darkroom but it's black and white. Currently everything is in pieces, but it's all there. This was an awesome video! Thank you!!

Tough thing for me (a whack landscape photographer) about shooting in the same locations is that you often end up with "This is nice, but just a worse version of a photo I already took" photos.

these vidoes inspire me so much so i thank you, honestly. start a patreon

Hey Paulie, Love your videos, great content.. love the vibe in NYC.. Your sound quality is great.. Can I ask a couple of questions - What Mic set up do you use and Lapel Mic ? and do you record audio separate and sync audio after or just connect the mics to the GoPro? thanks so much,. Mark. :)

It'd be awesome if you came to Europe! You'd have a field day in London and Paris I feel, and I'm always available to show you around Madrid :)

smart guy

13:19 After he said „bad sound“ the sound turned bad😂😂

OSIDEEE!!!

Sean is fucking good

Hey Sean. Cool to meet you man. I’m in Hampton Bays. Suffolk county! And a professional drone cinematographer. Maybe collab one day. Be safe brother. …..ha! Literally this stupid idea just came into my head……a rubber skin to fit over Leica cameras so it looks like a $10 Kodak disposable camera. Cause thieves know Rolexes & Leicas.

Great episode, Paulie! Did you color grade the footage to be a little flatter/washed out or is my monitor messing with me?

So I’ve just come across your channel and I love this series. But I’ve noticed something kind of cool. This woman at 5:49 is the same lady from the walkie talkie you did with Tommy Wisecup. I remember her because Tommy was in the middle of changing rolls when he noticed her, had to pull his second camera out to get a picture of her. But I’m dubbing her the “polka dot hat lady”. Unless she’s a well known like the green lady.

he need to show us the bikes!

nice darkroom bro!

After seeing the 100th video of people taking absolutely boring photos of gas stations and parking cars, this was really interesting to watch! Thank you!

Manhattan is good place to take photos like his...

Next eps. Walkie talkie with kazu

Here for the chapstick

I love your channel! Just subscribed. Question, street photographers typically don’t make a living from this? It’s more of a passion?!

he the steve buschemi of street photography

If Joe Greer and Robert Patterson had a kid

did no one tell the jets that he sacrificed his entire hobby for them haha

I binged watched your entire WT series! This is my first episode that I had to wait for! If you want, I can go to NYC, take my Hi Matic 7s with a 50mm that I am still practicing on and give you a guy WITHOUT a Leica!

This is a great channel, do you have a Twitter account?

His pretentious hobby is a shared hobby we have

What is the sling bag he is carrying?😊

Hey Pauli, I really enjoy your Walkie Talkies, the way you talk to the photographer, the editing etc. But after 22 episodes it gets tiring watching people taking photos, mostly with all the same setup. Not that I mind them using a Leica (M6) but also the same focal length. I'm just a stranger from the internet so who am I to judge, I don't know how much is behind these videos, the organization to meet up with the photographer etc. It would be really refreshing to see a Walkie Talkie with someone who uses e.g. a TLR, or idk- a super wideangle lense. The video where you interviewed Jerry Pena is a really good video, very interesting and something new, something many people haven't seen before. Another photographer with a 28mm and most likely a Leica gets tiring. But again, who am I to judge. Take this as constructive criticism, the videos are great but I'd love to see more unique photographers :) Greetings from Germany!

I'm pretty surprised by the amount of people featured on this channel who use Leica cameras.

good video, why is your autofocus constantly refiring jesus

Paul, I love learning from you and your friends, but sometimes I respectfully disagree. Not with any one photog, but more so with the "apparent" current trend of street photography. The quality of photos I see are great (shout out to leica again and to each shooters developing process), yet there seems to be more emphasis on collecting shots than creating specific narratives and/or connection with subjects. Obviously, a high quantity of shooting is paramount in creating high quality work. I do like the hunting/fishing question, but this a gathering (taking) process rather a narrative/storyline (creating) one. Granted, Capa's advice rings in my ears all the time ("If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough..."), but maybe he meant connectivity as well proximity to the observed. Is it possible the reason "nothing's happening out here today" is due to a singular focus on the hunt? Is it possible the great works of both the past and present have elements of both? I hope my words don't offend. I self evaluate constantly and strive to create and recreate my work all the time. I look forward to more lessons from you and your colleagues. All the best, Pete Hopkins

At least it wasn't a Leica M6 😂

I shoot on a CANON AE-1P, have a 1.1k followers, and born and raised in NYC. Let's do it for the budget episode.

How many street photographers can one city sustain?

Is it really that hard to find someone that uses a Nikon or Canon rangefinder ! Or even a lowly nikonos. This is turning into a Leica channel

if a photographer wants to "control" everything, thencreate your own film, or else your NOT controlling everything

WTF with your color grading?? oh its just overexposed😅

So obnoxious with these leicas

Leica...leica...leica.....leica.........pure snobbery...

0:38 Pualie: yeah, you had a Nikon for a little bit. Sean: *pause* point blank photo of stranger. "Yeah I tried a Nikon for a little bit." 😏 I love how he doesn't skip a beat.