Then Godlis was still studying a decent person e-commerce photo editing and thought about becoming a writer. But then I met many who wrote better got embarrassed and quit. But he began to photograph the people around him and everyone liked his pictures. Since then he calls himself a street photographer walks around with a camera and shoots what he sees. In addition in Godlis visited the first solo exhibition of Diana Arbus at the Museum of Modern Art. The impressions were enough to take up the study of the intricacies of the profession along with other celebrities of photography Nan Goldin and Stanley Greene. In late Godlis moved from Boston to New York.

The next summer he got Brassaï's illustrated memoirs The Secret Paris of the s and he suddenly discovered parallels between the universe of the HungarianFrench master and his own. If Brassaï chose the green back streets of Montmartre then Godlis got a no less colorful place CBGB. On a chilly night in the late summer of David Godlis stood on the deserted and unremarkable New York Bowery Street where only a white canopy with black letters CBGB stood out. He opened the door and entered a new world. Richard Hull Tom Verlaine Richard Lloyd and Billy Ficca of the Television group were doing magic on the microphone.