Max Sidman

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18
Jan
Soundwaves: Funky Brazilian jazz, raw nerve rap, Latin skater thrash, and a no-frills supergroup

Soundwaves: Funky Brazilian jazz, raw nerve rap, Latin skater thrash, and a no-frills supergroup

Way back when, a couple of lifetimes ago, I made scraps of a living off writing about music and culture.
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28
Dec
Happy New Year

Happy New Year

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20
Dec
New York City | 2025

New York City | 2025

There’s always so much to see and do in New York, stepping off a plane for a mere stopover
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14
Dec
Shooting Zone Wide Open in the Streets

Shooting Zone Wide Open in the Streets

Photography is a two-dimensional art form—whether printed or digital, images appear in a flat plane on an X and
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23
Nov
Asking to photograph strangers. Also not asking.

Asking to photograph strangers. Also not asking.

I’m not much of a portrait photographer—just not enough experience or practice with it—but I’d like
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06
Nov
Stockholm | 2025

Stockholm | 2025

There’s a pretty basic set of things that makes city streets attractive to me as a photographer. Good light.
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24
Aug
Good work if you can get it

Good work if you can get it

Will I ever be able to spend as much time in the streets with my camera as I’d like
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17
Aug
July 4th in San Francisco (in color) | 2025

July 4th in San Francisco (in color) | 2025

I don’t shoot a lot of color these days, but when I decided to spend the day of July
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08
Aug
Fillmore Jazz Festival 2025

Fillmore Jazz Festival 2025

Fillmore Street in San Francisco, closed to street traffic for a dozen blocks and filled with live music stages, food
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28
Jun
1964 Leica M3, 50mm Dual Rangefinder, Leicameter Mr4

The people in your neighborhood. Or, how I got my Leica M3

The daily email digest I get from my neighborhood Groups.io listserv is typically a pretty sleepy affair—people trying
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