David Turecamo

Call me a photojournalist — though the label doesn’t quite fit. My father handed me a camera when I was seven, and I’ve never been more than arm’s length from one since. This series is street photography in motion - in cities and villages, in bars and backstage. I’m a forty-year veteran of the networks, 60 MINUTES, NIGHTLINE and SUNDAY MORNING, but network formats are rigid, budgets approved and everything planned – no spontaneity; you never saw anyone singing. But here I work solo and quickly, without lights, cables or crew, so I’m able to capture subjects with an intimacy that documentary filmmakers seldom can.  

I’ve never been afraid with my camera. I went to Africa and traveled across Angola, Uganda, and nine other countries, by bush taxi and dumb luck and when I found something interesting, I’d stop and start shooting.  GOTTA CARRY A CAMERA captures that life... whether in Paris, Tehran or Timbuktu.