Are you doing similar work today?
Jennifer, I don't usually give out the URL for the web where I'm posting current stuff on an interim basis until I decide what's worth putting on
www.FineArtSnaps.com, but the URL's going to be in the bio for my B&W spotlight award in the March issue of B&W magazine anyway, which will hit the stands in January. So,what the heck: go to
www.russ-lewis.com, click on the Photo Gallery, and click on Manitou Springs. That's an HTML gallery and it has a lot of the work I was doing just before I came down to Florida for the winter. It's in chronological order, so if you go to the last page and work back from there you'll see my very latest stuff. I'm not very happy with the HTML gallery, so I'll probably convert it back to Flash when I finally get enough time to sit down and work on my webs. The problem with the HTML gallery is that I can't move from picture to picture without using the mouse.
From what I've seen of your work you don't need a mentor. You just need to keep on shooting. Yours is some of the best street work I've seen in a long time. If you haven't already done so, spend some time with the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt, Andre Kertesz, Willy Ronis, Brassai, W. Eugene Smith, Dorothea Lange, Marc Riboud, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Steve McCurry, and very importantly: Robert Frank. Yes, a lot of this is "dated," but I guess I'm enough of a fussy old guy to believe we've moved away from the heyday of great street photography. Nowadays most of what's called street photography seems designed to shock the viewer rather than to show something important about the human condition. That's a fad that won't last, so, stick with the kind of thing I've seen you do. You do it very well.