What are people thinking at that moment they are photographed on the street? These humans of the everywhere? What are they thinking at that moment of the click? Ordinary individuals moving silently through the drama of their lives when they […]
A trick often touted in street photography is shooting “blind”. Point the camera in roughly the right direction, then press the shutter without looking through the viewfinder. It’s useful if you’re somewhere you aren’t allowed to take pictures; or where […]
Most people favour something in the 35mm to 50mm range for street photography, though there are those who prefer wider lenses and a few who prefer something a bit longer. This is, I think, the longest lens I’ve ever used […]
The opening week of the Rencontres Photographiques – literally, “Photographic Meetings” – in Arles in the first week of July is the biggest annual gathering of fine art photographers in the world. Over the course of a few days, you […]
The improbably named American judge Potter Stewart (1915-1985) famously said in Jacobellin v. Ohio (378 US 184) that although pornography was extremely difficult or perhaps impossible to define, “I know it when I see it”. Street photography has a lot […]
For years, I used to get angry with people who said, “It really doesn’t matter what camera you use.” I thought, “Well, it’s all very well for you, because you’ve got much better kit than I have, so of course […]
One of the many fascinating truths about all photography, not just street photography, is that it is often possible to assert with absolute truth and confidence two statements which are at first sight mutually incompatible. Here’s a pair to be […]
Street photography obviously requires a camera; and the easiest way to get used to carrying your camera on the street is, well, simply to carry it on the street. But – here’s the trick – don’t take pictures of people. […]
The camera is dead. No, I don’t really believe that statement, but let us continue with this sentiment as a “thought experiment”. To be clear, I am not talking about the long-proclaimed death of the compact camera. Surely that corpse […]
Look straight down the camera lens, the street will do the rest: Street photography and branded advertising Image credit – Nick Turpin A series of photographs in fleeting microseconds of the present, and just as suddenly, the past? An electric […]
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