Faces of the Bay Area: Every day for almost 7 years, photographer Brian Molyneaux has taken a photo of a stranger he meets on the street. That's thousands of compelling photos that tell stories of those in his community. He calls it a labor of love.
So it began. He’d leave the front door of his home, always with a camera in hand, often on foot, sometimes in a car or bicycle, often in Oakland or Emeryville. And he’d notice someone who would catch his eye-- something about the way they looked, an article of clothing, a facial expression they carried, or the way the light hit them. And he let his intuition be his guide.
"I think people really resonate with this project because the fact that I’m able to show up and say, ‘Hello,’ and say, ‘Hey you matter, and let’s connect,’" he said. "Dominick - was walking with Stephen to GNC so that Stephen could buy some bulking up protein powder," the photographer shared in his. "He needs it for his job. He is an EMT and training to become a firefighter," Molyneaux explained.
The next thing he found himself doing was putting his camera away and sitting with Sadie to talk with her. There was a postscript to his and Sadie’s story. He said about a year later, he ran into her again. But this time, it was she who noticed him on the street and called him over, and the two briefly caught up.
"She just graduated 2 days ago with a degree in anthropology and he graduated with a degree in illustration during pandemic,". "He suffered a bit of a depression for a while and the gym and working out helped him combat it." And despite the fact that photos taken during that period were of people whose faces were half covered by a mask and the photographer and his subject stood six feet apart, he said, "Something still came through. The humanity and the beauty in their eyes and the connection. To me, and I hope to my subjects and the people I photographed, is that humanity prevailed and that’s sort of what my goal was at that time period of this project.
"I said, what, what do you mean?" the photographer recounted. "And he said, ‘Well, nobody in my whole life,’ I mean he's at least in his 30s maybe 40s, he said, ‘Nobody of your kind, no white man has ever come up to me and told me that I looked good or important or beautiful or interesting,’ or what ever I said to him. I said, captivating, I think," Molyneaux shared of that moment.
"I think we’re both hopefully better for having had the meeting," Molyneaux said. The connection they made talking didn’t allow him the time to take Ronnie’s photo. But Molyneaux said the encounter had an immense and lasting impact on him and that when he left Ronnie, he told him that he hoped to meet him again one day and photograph him then.
And the longer this journey stretched, the more he’s seeing his stories come full circle as his community seems to get smaller.
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