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David Adam Edelstein 艾大卫
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Photographer. Flaneur. Polyglot. Veteran UX Designer. Cubist wombat. Professionally dubious.

He/him. ✊🏼

Hawai'i/中国/PNW. Living on unceded Duwamish territory.

Kamaʻāina, aloha ʻāina, aloha lāhui, akā ʻaʻole Kānaka Maoli.

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A mysterious visitor.
August 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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An answer.

#photography #street #silly #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
A photo of the window of a subway car. Outside of the window is the number 42 in wall tiles.
August 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Linear maze.

#photography #street #train @mta.info
Black and white photo looking from one subway car into the next. The layered reflections between the cars make it hard to tell what is where.
August 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Racing.

#photography #street #surreal @amnh.org
Taxidermy wolves "running".
August 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Weary.

#photography #street #owl @amnh.org
Black and white photo of a taxidermy owl that had fallen over in a display at the American Museum of Natural History.
August 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Apparently my sensor is not nearly as clean as I thought. This is what happens when you rarely shoot stopped down :D

#photography #chores
Image of a camera sensor so covered with schmutz that it looks like bacteria on a microscope slide.
July 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Descent.

#photography #street #nyc
A stairway in a subway station, heading further underground.
July 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Light summer reading.

#photography #street #nyc #kalo
A man on a subway, wearing an aloha shirt with kalo leaves on it, is looking at a book open to an illustration of a tank.
July 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Dubious 02, with special appearance by The Kid at far right.

#photography #street #NYC
Black and white photo of a child and three adults. The child's face has an unimpressed expression.
July 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Made.

#photography #street #portrait
Black and white photo of a woman who appears to be staring out of a subway window at the camera as the subway rolls by.
July 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Dance move.

#photography #street #subway #NYC
Black and white photo, motion blurred, with two very different arms on either side of a subway door.
July 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Waiting.

#photography #urban #bear
Black and white photo of a taxidermy bear in a museum diorama.
July 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Watcher.

#photography #street
Black and white photo, looking up at an apartment building, with an owl model sitting on the nearest ledge.
July 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Glance.

#photography #street
Black and white photo of a subway train passing by. Most of the train is motion blurred but a guy looking over his shoulder out the window is relatively sharp.
July 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Boundary.

#photography #street #urban
Black and white photo of a worn paint line on the ground in a subway station.
July 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Dubious.

#photography #street #portrait
Black and white photo of two women and a girl standing on a sidewalk in New York.
July 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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ok, it's kind of a cheap shot and a street cliché, but it still works 😆

#photography #street #funny
Black and white photo of a man in a museum, appearing to gawk at a topless statue of a woman.
July 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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We spent last week in #NYC visiting The Kid. You know where I went.

#photography #street
Black and white photo of a sign in the subway that says "TO STREET".
July 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Cat tax.

#photography #portrait
Black and white portrait of a cat staring off into the distance.
June 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Bushwick.

#photography #flowers
In a bodega, the wall around the bathroom door is covered in pink plastic flowers.
June 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Playing with Adobe's new free video editor, #projectviolet. It allows for some pretty fun weirdo stuff.

#surreal #experimental #videoart
June 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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While we were glorifying the empire by dropping bombs on Iran, I was in our weirdo bubble at the annual Fremont Solstice Parade.

Apologies for not coming prepared, like so many of my colleagues at the parade, with long lenses to take pictures of boobies.

#photography #fremont #solstice #seattle
Motion-blurred black and white photo of a person in a weird costume on a bicycle. Motion-blurred black and white photo of a person in a weird costume on a bicycle. Motion-blurred black and white photo of two people in weird costumes on bicycles. Motion-blurred black and white photo of a person in a weird costume on a bicycle.
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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In the air.

#photography
Black and white photo of a phone sitting on a wooden cube, in front of a mural of an airplane wing over a city at night.
June 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Commerce opportunities. #photography
Black and white photo of a sign tacked to a light pole, which reads "we buy souls".
June 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Concentric and labeled.

#photography #streetphoto
Color photo of a driveway where someone has drawn concentric circles in chalk, bisected them, and labeled one side 1 and the other side 2.
May 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM