MUNTAKA CHASANT
PEOPLE & STORIES
feature image

Men Smoking Portraits

We sat there smoking cigarattes at 5 in the morning. Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned While not a smoker myself, I have always enjoyed the sight of men puffing on cigarettes. I think there’s some character and charm to smokers — tenacious. This makes them great subjects to photograph, in my opinion. Here […]

December 15, 2019

December 15, 2019

14 Min read time

Two men smoking cigarettes after a long day of work. © 2019 Muntaka Chasant

We sat there smoking cigarattes at 5 in the morning. Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned While not a smoker myself, I have always enjoyed the sight of men puffing on cigarettes. I think there’s some character and charm to smokers — tenacious. This makes them great subjects to photograph, in my opinion. Here […]

We sat there smoking cigarattes at 5 in the morning.

Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

While not a smoker myself, I have always enjoyed the sight of men puffing on cigarettes.

I think there’s some character and charm to smokers — tenacious. This makes them great subjects to photograph, in my opinion.

Here are a few from the stock.

Smoking urban man by Muntaka Chasant
Smoking urban man. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant
Man smoking portrait. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant
A Portrait by Muntaka Chasant
Urban Man Smoking © 2019 Muntaka Chasant
A portrait by Muntaka Chasant
A man smoking. © 2019 Muntaka Chasant
A Portrait by Muntaka Chasant
© 2019 Muntaka Chasant
Urban portrait by Muntaka Chasant
Urban miner “burner boys” smoking a cigaratte at Agbogbloshie, Ghana, after burning electrical wires to cover the copper inside. © 2019 Muntaka Chasant
A portrait by Muntaka Chasant
Two men smoking cigarettes after a long day of work. © 2019 Muntaka Chasant

Readers Also Liked

  • Smiling Men

    Peace begins with a smile..Mother Teresa Livelihood is the epicenter of human struggle, and despite their pain, these men found a moment to be happy. Might have been a joke I cracked or something someone said. Some of these portraits make me smile and weep at the same time. Makes me weep because I may […]

  • In The Rain (Agbogbloshie, Ghana)

    I have done several shootings in the rain over the years, but these are a few that have had an impact on me for sometime now. Also Check out This Crucial Article & Documentary Leave your comment below and let me know what you think about these struggling urban men. © 2019 Muntaka Chasant Send […]

  • Faces Of Urban Struggle

    My Life is a Struggle Voltaire It’s 2 A.M here, and I’m up exploring a large collection of unpublished portraits of human suffering in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. There’s a lot of struggle in Ghana’s impoverished urban environment — urban poverty, wretched housing, environmental crisis (air pollution, plastic pollution, etc.). Men yearn for idyllic innocent […]

A man smoking a cigarette portrait.
A man smoking a cigarette. © 2019 Muntaka Chasant

Leave your comment below and let me know what you think about these men.

© 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Send your photo essay to hello@muntaka.com to publish on MUNTAKA.COM

December 15, 2019

14 Min read time

Leave a comment below to join the conversation

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ON MUNTAKA.COM ARE COPYRIGHTED. DO NOT COPY OR REUSE WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF MUNTAKA CHASANT.