Notice the walk first.
A city keeps its best stories in the parts nobody photographs. This issue walks the north corridor at dawn, when the shutters are still down and the only traffic is the people who keep everything moving.
01 · Before the noise
Start with the route, not the interview. The walk between two corners tells you more about a neighbourhood than any answer given indoors. Let the subject set the pace.
02 · Let people be ordinary
The best lines are rarely the ones about change. Ask what someone did before work this morning; ask what they would fix about the street. Let the remarkable arrive on its own.
“You notice more when you stop trying to make the walk mean something.”
03 · Keep the return
Come back the same way. What looked like a detail on the way out is often the whole story on the way home, and the draft is better for having walked it twice.