‘Actual Photographers Shoot Movie’: Likelihood Encounter Results in Unlikely Friendship

Two photographers who met by probability below attempting circumstances on the streets of New York City put their preliminary pugnacious perspective towards one another apart to develop into agency buddies.

Ayrton Kaleo occurred upon Bernie, better-known as OG, on Sixth Avenue, who condescendingly instructed Kaleo that “real photographers use film.”

The pair’s first interplay was decidedly spiky: OG not solely rounded on the younger photographer for his format selection, however Kaleo additionally antagonistically took images of OG with out his permission.

“That guy was basically saying that shooting digital make you not a real photographer, which is nonsense,” Kaleo mentioned instantly after his first assembly with OG. “It’s the photographer that makes the images, not the camera.”

But the following day, Kaleo got here again, searching for out OG for additional clarification.

“No disrespect, brother. Take it from me… use a bigger view, use film,” OG instructed Kaleo. “I got no hate for you bro, you doing digital, I got no hate for you… All I’m saying is, stick with film.”

Kaleo, clearly taken with the mysterious OG, started researching him and located that he not solely talks the discuss — however walks the stroll. Kaleo found that OG has been pounding town streets with a movie digital camera for a very long time and unearthed footage from the Nineteen Nineties of a younger OG with a nostril ring doing road pictures.

As the pair’s friendship blossomed, OG took Kaleo to a B&H retailer and purchased him a movie digital camera. “Other people helped me out,” OG tells Kaleo. “I had a lot of people help me out. They gave me gear, they gave me tips. A lot of photographers, they helped me, so I’m helping you.”

Kaleo, who has clearly by no means shot a roll of movie earlier than in his life, all of the sudden discovered himself on an analog coaching course with OG, who taught his new pupil how you can function a lightweight meter and how you can work together with topics.

As the pair go about Manhattan, different movie shooters spot them and be part of the merry gang as they go on a photograph stroll across the East Village.

Speaking to ABC News, Kaleo says he’s by no means come throughout anybody like OG.

“That [first] interaction, I think we both left it feeling not very happy with each other,” says Kaleo. “But I just felt like there was a story unfinished, words unspoken.”

Kaelo says he was “shocked” when OG purchased him a digital camera and took him below his wing. The pair are actually buddies and swap voicenotes daily.