Sachi Starbuck, artist

Sachi is the ten-year old daughter of Eliza Starbuck, co-owner of Flowercup Wine in Cold Spring, NY. For three years now Sachi has helped design and execute the chalk murals on one of the walls of the store. The mural is changed every six to eight months. Sachi and her mother do equal parts of the drawing. "After a little pre-drawing concept discussion Sachi directs the subject matter of the murals." her mother said.

Sachi was a good sitter. She allowed me to consider without interruption what I was to do. Her mother stood far off in a corner of the room silently observing. When I took a break and Sachi leaned against a pedestal, I said, “There, that’s the next shot.” Her mother, without hesitating, picked up the pedestal and positioned it where we had been shooting a few minutes earlier.  Help like that and vanishing into a corner during the photography is not always understood by those attending a shoot.

Eliza explained: "My mother was a photographer and I worked as her assistant on her shoots from age 12 through the end of high school. Thus I earned my ability to see where and when a pedestal is needed and when to melt into a corner."

Apart from drawing and painting Sachi loves clothes and has appeared in outstanding outfits on all the occasions I have seen her, ranging from fashion today to one of her grandmother's shawls.
 

Kat and Stephen Selman

Behind my destination lay a small wooden building where I was told Kat and Stephen Selman would be when I arrived to photograph them. This is their fully equipped recording studio, once a wreck of a place which they recently renovated themselves. It is now the coziest of places heated by a most efficient wood burning stove.

Kat and Stephen are musicians recently arrived from Brooklyn. They offer the studio as a musician's retreat, either to those who want a break or to those who want to record. You may stay nights and they will cook for you. The place is surrounded by woods and fields.

Mia, the baker at the Cold Spring Coffeehouse.

I have not much to say about this photograph. Mai, herself, I do not know except she has a dog and twice a day she leaves her bakery to take the dog for a walk. She works for a warmhearted and friendly man which must account for a good deal of the success of his café — the rest 
being Mai's baking.

Young man with advice for those who find a job in Newburgh, NY

Newburgh is much in my mind again—still as bad as ever for the black Americans living 
there. Violence, and unemployment prevail. The city government persists in making it 
difficult for black residents to apply for, train for, or compete for jobs for which they are 
willing and capable of doing. Our friend above said, "If you find a job in Newburgh you 
better keep it." He did not actualy say "it". He used an expression that may not be 
welcome on these pages in some quarters.