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Doug Bruns
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Photographer & essayist in pursuit of beginner’s mind…or something like that. 😉
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I took this shot several years ago in Florence. I had just purchased a Leica MP, a totally mechanical, analog camera. As the years passed I switched to digital cameras and sold the MP. My heart is still broken. What a stupid thing to do!
#leica #florence #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The loniness of the long-distance traveler.

#blackandwhite #leica #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography
September 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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These three, a family, together but apart, together but alone, hands in pockets, in separate orbits.

#blackandwhitephotography #leica #streetphotography
Together alone.
September 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.” ~ John Locke

#filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #leica

©Doug Bruns 2024
Two silhouette walk through a bright portal in a black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.
December 31, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.”
– Dorothea Lange

#photojournalism #blackandwhite #drama #leica

© Doug Bruns
A helicopter takes off behind barbed wire in a remote mountain valley of Nepal. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.
December 18, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”
– Sam Abell

#streetphotography #analogphotography

© Doug Bruns, 2024, Italy
A woman walks in an alleyway, photographed from above. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.
December 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Dream state

#streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #leica #street #documentaryphotography
A blurry black and white image of a young man approaching the photographer. Photo by street photographer Doug Bruns
December 13, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Thank you to The Sun Magazine for profiling one of my images. It is always a pleasure to see one's work out in the world, but especially so when the outlet is a favorite!

#thesunmagazine #photography #thesun #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #published
Bio of photographer Doug Bruns. Black and white photograph of Doug Bruns as published in The Sun Magazine.
December 13, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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“I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things.” ~ Alec Soth

#streetphotography #filmphotography #analogphotography #London #leica #monochrome
A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns. A pedestrian walks by a Piccadilly Line train in London.
December 13, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank

#photography #blackandwhite #streetphotography #monochrome

© Doug Bruns
A man sits on a stoop under an umbrella on a rainy day in Siena, Italy. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.
December 12, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

I like what I like. That’s the only concept I embrace.

#blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #leica #quote #hcb
An old woman walks past a concrete wall at the British Museum. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns
December 10, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” ~ Anthony Brugess

…yet I find periods of idleness, even long stretches of idleness, refreshing and creatively beneficial.

#blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #quote #filmisnotdead

© Doug Bruns
A man stands under an arch in Siena, Italy. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.
December 9, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” ~ Robert Capa

#streetphotography #blackandwhite #leica #streetphotographer #documentaryphotography
Close black and white image of a young woman while her friend looks on. By Doug Bruns
December 8, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Putting yourself in the path of creative expression is a simple profundity.

#creativity #art #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #inspiration

© Doug Bruns
A grandmother and grandchild look at portraits of women in a museum gallery. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns
December 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Living a life, and living it well, is more important than knowing what it means.

#wisdom #philosophy #photography #blackandwhite #inspiration

© Doug Bruns, China
A man on a bicycle rides in an alleyway in China. Black and white photograph.
December 6, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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I used to make up excuses to travel. But I’ve come to realize that I don’t need an excuse to explain a necessity.

#travel #blueskytravelers #bnwphotography #analoguephotography #india

© Doug Bruns
A man in a turban looks over a balcony in India. A black and white photograph.
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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“Know thyself” ~ Greek proverb

The self is a shy beast, always on the move, always becoming. Sometimes, during focused creative effort, it comes out of hiding, if you’re lucky.

#analoguephotography #inspiration #blackandwhite

© Doug Bruns, 2024
A woman looks out from a balcony over the piazza in Siena, Italy.
December 4, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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“Become who you are.” ~ Nietzsche

“Becoming” is an active verb. Get to work.

#blackandwhite #quote #nietzsch #philosophy #photography

© Doug Bruns, 2022
December 3, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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“Simplify, simplify, simplify.” H. D. Thoreau

To live simply in modern society is the quintessential act of rebellion.

#streetphotography #quotation #simplicity #analogphotography
December 2, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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My photography, philosophy, life goal: see deeper. Simple as that.
#photography #blackandwhite
December 1, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ~ Diane Arbus

#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #leica #quote #creativity

© Doug Bruns, 2024, London
A shadow visitor to the Tate (London) walks the stairs.
November 30, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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It seems to me that any creative effort made for the approval of others is an act of bad faith. Make your art for you. Be true that way. The rest doesn’t matter.

#analog #blackandwhite #monochromatic #filmphotography #creativity #photography #authenticity

The Way © Doug Bruns, 2024
November 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ~ Albert Camus

Are you running with the herd on this Black Friday? Out are you “absolutely free”?

© Doug Bruns, Tibet, 2004

#blackfriday #quote #authenticity #monochrome
© Doug Bruns, 2004, Tibet
November 29, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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The rush of life…
…pause
…breath
…carry on.

#film #blackandwhite #travel #monochrome #leica
November 28, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Here are a few of my “life tools” as I attempt to carve out an authentic life in a modern era.
-journals
-fountain pens
-mechanical watch (Farer GMT)
-analog camera (1955 Leica M3)
Suggestions welcome…

#authenticity #simplicity #vintage #cameras #leica #watches #journals #oldschool #authentic
November 27, 2024 at 3:44 PM