South Beach, Miami. Mangos Bar. I’ve got a few days now before my Magnum colleagues arrive. Yup Magnum on vacation. We gather now with no biz meeting just to talk and look at each other’s work. Ironic that I’m in Miami anyway to shoot BeachGames, teach a workshop, and have an exhibit “BeachGames” on the walls of HistoryMiami Museum as I continue to shoot on that very project just blocks away. It’s not the first time I’ve exhibited before a book actually exists. I had a Divided Soul exhibit 10 years prior to Phaidon publishing. So I’m cruising South Beach. If ever there was a place to shoot BeachGames , this has to be it. Every beach game possible in a 200 yard strip. I guess it’s apparent to some by now that BeachGames is my own beach game. Fictionalized. Or not. Who can ever know? Mangos is a tourist trap of first order, yet a great place to shoot nevertheless. Well managed and with expensive drinks to pay for the continuous bar stage show, it’s a photographer’s dream bar studio. Everybody wants to be photographed in South Beach. Rather expects to be photographed. So I’m on the loose. No obligations except to find a moment or two. For real or imagined. My mind starts to spin… #southbeach #beachgames #fujifilm #miamistreetphotography #miami