Street photography at night is hard to resist, partly because it can be so dramatic and partly because so many of us are at work during the day and have more free time during the hours of darkness.
Visual stories : reflections on street photography and existential resonance
Sergio Burns, 21st August 2017
Glass is beautiful. Sure, it reflects our image, but there is something more, something deeper and more meaningful in the distorted feedback from glass in street photography. A street photograph with glass as a backdrop, the light bouncing back from [...]
Street photography deals in everyday scenes, right? And this is, believe it or not, an everyday scene. At least it is if you live in Moscow, where the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a traditional place for brides to [...]
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Most people attribute this to Mark Twain, but it was probably his friend Charles Dudley Warner who actually said or wrote it. Either way, when it comes to street [...]
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 [...]
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