Is This Street Photography?
The Sony World Photography Awards is a Huge & Prestigious Photography Awards. Anyone who enters the awards would love to win it & add it to their list of achievements. The Awards are Supposed to Carry a lot of weight ( I Think ! ) Who wouldn’t want to win it.
In 2025 The Awards Included a “Street Photography” Category.
AND….DRum Roll….The 2025 “Street Photography” Open Category winner is Khairizal Maris from Indonesia.
Of Course, I am delighted for ANY Photographer who wins ANY Category that they enter! It’s very Rewarding & the recognition is Fantastic. GOOD LUCK to Him.
The Photograph is I belive “Shot On The Street” ( I assume it’s on the street as They are Football Fans celebrating a win, Again Assuming that they are watching it on a Big Screen somewhere ) Is a very nice , Atmospheric, Adequately detailed, Happy Photograph.
The question is : Is This Street Photography? Just Because it was shot on the Street? or Open Air!!??
Is There No longer ANY difference between, Reportage, Photo-Journalism, Social Documentary, Event Photography or Sports Photography? Can ANYTHING Shot on teh Street Be Named Street Photography?
Is Paparazzi Street Photography then!??
I dodnt really like the use of the term “Decisive Moment” BUT for the sake of this discussion, as I understand it, “THE” Decisive “MOMENT” is a Fraction of TIME only during which, The CAPTURE, is Capturable! Iside THAT Fraction! But it Looks to me that there were MANY Moments during this shot! You could have taken 30 Frames almost all of them the same & the person next to me, could have taken exactly the same! So, is This Street Photography? or a FANTASTIC Sports Event Photo Journalism!??
Either The Photography Judges & Curators are Un-Educated OR I’m Loosing The Plot!!!!
In Any Event Congradulations toKhairizal Maris. Well Done & my Best Wishes.
Copyright ⓒ Khairizal Maris
© Khairizal Maris, Indonesia, Winner, Open Competition, Street Photography, 2025 Sony World Photography Awards
To See More of Khaiizal Maris Visit his Instagram
& To See The Winners of The 2025 Sony World Photography Awards Visit HERE
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Cartier-Bresson studied painting under André Lhote, who was obsessed with a particular approach to compositional geometry (closely related to Jay Hambridge’s ‘dynamic symmetry’). Steeped in this approach to composition, Cartier-Bresson watched for the moment when all the elements in the picture were aligned in the frame in one of these ‘perfect’ geometrical arrangements. That’s the moment he tried to capture in his photographs. The American publishers of his first book, ‘Images à la sauvette’ (‘Pictures on the fly’ or ‘Pictures on the sly’), substituted the title ‘The decisive moment’, a term that Cartier-Bresson himself avoided.
Thank you …. Good Comment