Montgomery, Alabama | Oak Avenue

Posted: August 29th, 2011 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica

I was driving along the Selma to Montgomery route of the historic Civil Rights march in 1966. Met this gentlemen who had a soda vending machine on his porch. Talked to him for a while when the local neighborhood muscle / patriarch came by and gave me a choice: Leave or I’ll bust your camera and bust your face.

Good times.

I left.

Oak Ave, Montgomery, Alabama © Doug Kim

Oak Ave, Montgomery, Alabama © Doug Kim

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Montgomery, Alabama | Mural Painter

Posted: December 30th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica

Mural Painter, Montgomery, Alabama © Doug Kim

Mural Painter, Montgomery, Alabama © Doug Kim

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Birmingham, Alabama | Etheridge Barber & Style

Posted: October 11th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film

Etheridge Barber & Style, Birmingham, Alabama © Doug Kim

Etheridge Barber & Style, Birmingham, Alabama © Doug Kim

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Montgomery, Alabama | Biscuits vs. Braves

Posted: June 11th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica

Montgomery, Alabama; Leica M6 TTL 0.58, 35mm summicron, Agfa APX 400 © Doug Kim

Montgomery, Alabama; Leica M6 TTL 0.58, 35mm summicron, Agfa APX 400 © Doug Kim

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Birmingham, Alabama | Five Points

Posted: May 18th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica, Quotes

Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama © Doug Kim

Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama © Doug Kim

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I’d done everything there was to do.

-Paula Poundstone

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Montgomery, Alabama | Tuskegee Elementary

Posted: May 12th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica, Quotes

Tuskegee Elementary, Montgomery, Alabama © Doug Kim

Tuskegee Elementary, Montgomery, Alabama. Leica M6 TTL .58, 35mm Summicron, Agfa APX 400 © Doug Kim

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.

–Imogen Cunningham

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Talladega Infield Party

Posted: May 22nd, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica

250,000 people, boiled peanuts, off-duty strippers, fathers begging daughters to show strange men their boobs to get a free shot of bourbon.

Welcome to the Talladega Infield Party.

Oh, and there was a race.

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a legion of off-duty strippers © Doug Kim

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these guys were pointing at a 59 year old woman whom they convinced to do her first beer bong. it did not stay down for long © Doug Kim

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every row was tit row, every pit tit pit © Doug Kim

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i can still smell this guy's breath, like a Southern Comfort and sweet tea breeze © Doug Kim

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the two things outsiders don't know about NASCAR races: it is largely a family event and it takes a lot of money to attend © Doug Kim

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a moveable debauch © Doug Kim

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you have no idea how smart these guys are © Doug Kim

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you can make such friends in Talladega © Doug Kim

Shot with a Leica M6 TTL, 35mm summicron, Kodak Tri-x.

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