George Forss is one of the world’s most famous and admired urban landscape photographers, he lives in Cambridge, N.Y., and runs the Ginofor Art Gallery, far from the New York City art scene he conquered as a street photographer decades ago. George is much loved and much admired here, he is a precious friend of mine, every Memorial Day, Maria and I come to George’s gallery to watch the parade with him.

I brought my friend Cathy Stewart, a friend and photographer to meet George and he gave us a tour of his darkroom, a cross between a Rube Goldberg creation and Frankenstein’s laboratory. George and I go out into the parade and take our best shot. George is a genius, he trawls e-bay for old and used lenses and builds cameras out of old and spared found or donated parts. I took this photo of this brilliant creative man in his darkroom, I was pleased with it and so was he. George will be at the June and October Open Houses taken portraits of visitors, there is no greater bargain in all of the art world than a George Forss portrait.