Construction Workers

StreetObservations.com - I am constantly surrounded by construction workers.  It seems the building and rebuilding of New York City never stops.  There are huge holes in the ground for foundations, walls just right for billboards that surround them, cranes, bulldozers and construction workers.  They aren't hard to miss, with their colorful vests and hardhats.  They can even be spotted high above the city as I spoke about in my post Fear of Heights.

Just be careful not to stand behind one on line at a coffee truck at breakfast time.  That worker (I almost said "that guy", but there are more and more women as well)... that worker may be ordering for 10 people.  

My first construction worker shot was taken more than 20 years ago up around 57th street and Lexington.  That building is long finished, as capturing a construction site is a temporary moment in time.

This is the shot.  At one point, an Australian woman spotted the photo on the Internet and wanted to purchase it to market a men's skincare product.  She said, "...it is the intimacy between the two men that you have captured that I want to exploit, as I want to challenge men to cross their comfort zone and come and see me for concerns with their skin, so what I envisaged would have speech bubbles between the two men talking about their concerns with their skin health, and of course reference to me as the person/business to help them."  I'm not sure I see the intimacy, but I can understand they are supervising the job as well as being concerned about their skin.   

Here are few other construction worker shots.  This photo seemed rather musical to me, I called it "Construction Conductor".   

These guys were camped out at breakfast, taking a break from work on the World Trade Center site.  

This is a similar shot, at another historical building, but a later meal since now it's lunch time.  Or, as I called it "It's Only Lunch time..."

I'm not sure if these guys are bonafide construction workers, but they all seem to have an opinion on what to do next.  It seemed to me like they were from the 1920s so I gave them a sepia look.  

I called the shot "Digging Buddies".  It's like they are a bunch of little kids talking about the best way to dig a hole to China.  

Comments

[Ivan]

I really like the construction conductor photo. You are right, the photo is so musical. That photo is real, right? I mean it actually happened?

- Ivan

[John Fraissinet]

Yes, Ivan. This was just a shot I saw and grabbed. Not set up.