Introduction Street photography is on fire, to say the least. But, is any of it actually any good? More importantly, is any of it of any consequence to the art world? Can street photography survive as a genre in a [...]
Introduction Street photography is on fire, to say the least. But, is any of it actually any good? More importantly, is any of it of any consequence to the art world? Can street photography survive as a genre in a [...]
Many people run out and buy a camera and then hit the streets. This is okay, and you might even get lucky and make some great photographs, but know that being an artist, at least in the traditional sense, is [...]
Street Photography Rules Are Dumb One of the unfortunate side effects of the street photography craze is the plethora of people trying to make a living from “teaching” the genre to the never-ending train of newbies. The problem is most [...]
Discouraged? Don’t be. Street photography can be a lot of fun and there are still unique and distinctive photographs to be made. However, you’ll want to steer clear of the clichéd aesthetic, costly workshops, and constricting rules. In order to [...]
Pay no attention to street photography rules. Shoot intuitively and live with your photographs for a while before showing them to the world. Your work will be better. Buy a 35mm disposable camera and hit the streets for an afternoon. [...]
Street photography has become such an ambiguous term in the photography world that it nearly lacks any meaning at all. The brilliant and time-honored work of great photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Vivian Maier, Robert Frank, Joseph Koudelka, [...]
A Personal Essay by Sergio Burns (Editor At Large) In response to the line : before the smartphone revolution, someone recently wrote on Twitter : I had a life. A bit melodramatic, I thought, a bit over-the-top, because many people [...]
Glasgow - on the street and thinking :The best street photographers conjure up the extraordinary from the ordinariness and the mundane of everyday life.From the stripped back street comes something that is, wild and free and somewhat anarchic like an [...]
Imagine : we, actually, travel around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Life, at that speed, is fast. Everything melts into a supersonic blur of rich colours, ribbons of stars that dazzle in blinding flashes of incandescent light while [...]
“When the photograph is a mirror of the man, and the man is a mirror of the world, then Spirit might take over ". Minor White Minor White is one of the great American photographers of the 20th century. [...]
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