Street Photography

All photographs from It Was All a Dream. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ebbs and flows of inspiration, particularly with the ups and downs of the last few years. Since I work with a variety of photographers, I get to observe their patterns of motivation, and it’s been fascinating to think about. At the […]

What is Street Photography? Street photography is a broad and often misunderstood genre. I believe it’s an art form in itself, of course. When trying to figure myself out in my youth as a sensitive kid, I often chose to walk around photographing my surroundings. This ultimately turned out to be an early step in

Why Gesture and Emotion Are So Important in Street Photography I find a fascinating aspect of street photography is that it can be so difficult to figure out the reasons why one photograph may work while another doesn’t.   A successful photograph can be sharp or blurry, it can have soft and even light or

Let’s Talk About Traditional Street Photography While there is a full range of topics surrounding street photography, especially how to do this in quiet places, suburban places, in your home, etc, I don’t want to leave the more traditional street photography out – the candid people photography, the decisive moment, the serendipitous, whatever you may

  Photographing ‘Close to Home’ There are the same amount of great photographs right outside your door as there are across the world. And in this case maybe more. You have a chance to deeply focus on what’s around you. To capture areas you know well and go to back over and over again, finding new

Here’s a description of the progression of your everyday street photographer. I’ll just get right to it, but please take this as tongue in cheek! 1. The Brick Phase After watching the Vivian Maier documentary one day, you buy your first street photography camera. Your camera sits like a brick for a few months, except for

With Spring here, I think it’s time to fully embrace your inner photo weirdo. Seriously, hear me out.  If you missed the Street Photography Anywhere class, a common comment was how uncomfortable people were to do this type of work – to shoot in quiet areas, to capture portraits of random people, to shoot in suburbs,