Of all the types of photography prevalent in current world, street photography has a niche of its own. It has a ton of ardent supporters & enthusiasts, who indulge in this genre of photography. So what is so special about this photography technique?
According to Wikipedia, “Street Photography” is photography that features the chance encounters and random accidents within public places. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment.
Today’s featured photographer is Takashi Yasui – a 35 years old Japanese photographer (based in Kyoto, Osaka). Takashi uses film cameras and Iphone in order to shoot architecture and street/urban photography (he also shoots a lot of nature).
A great street portrait is more than just a photograph of a stranger. In many ways that person being photographed and the photographer enter a collaboration. The subject is choosing to open themselves to being revealed and interpreted by the photographer. And the photographer, if he’s adept enough, is communicating what they find fascinating and beautiful about that subject. And in the hands of a really good photographer, they reveal something about the community and the culture they exist in.
Acclaimed Japanese photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima passed away on September 24th, 2015, after suffering a stroke at the age of 94. Fukushima was known f
No. No. Please, no. A moment of terror for every photographer out there. I opened my photo bag, took out my camera to take a picture of the street filled with warm sunset light, and then it happened.
Imagine this moment in slow-motion: while listening to music with my noise-canceling headphones, I raised my camera in order to look through the viewfinder. Surprised by the incredibly bad auto-focus, I realized — with cheery music in my ears — that the lens had suddenly unhooked from the DSLR and was falling down to the ground in the worst way possible. BAM!
La Maison de la Photographie in Lille presents, as part of its autumn programme and in the framework of “Renaissance” – Lille 3000, two exhibitions with a common theme: Detroit. The first is entitled “Detroit Defintion”, a series by Sara Jane Boyers that came out of the discovery of her native city and the second are the images by Guillaume Rivière who takes stock of this American city with “Detroit: Décomposition-recomposition”.
‘Xiaobeilu’ is a photographic and film project that explores ‘the social life and economies of a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou that functions as a symbolic gateway into China from Africa and the Global South’. Daniel Traub, a photographer and ‘curator’ of this project, is a half-Chinese American who lived in China for several years.
Autumn has begun in earnest here in Dublin city, and the city trees are starting to turn form the rich summer green to the beautiful gold of Autumn. Not only are the trees changing, but the light is too. I love the Autumn light. Being relatively far north here in Ireland, the Autumn and winter months bring a lower Sun which gives it a warmer colour and longer, more dramatic shadows.
My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photograph...
Few photographers (dead or alive) make me jealous. Christophe Debon is an exception. I am terribly jealous of his work, it's damn good. As a street photographer
As a Chinese American whose family has been in the States for generations, AnRong Xu has long been drawn to his ancestry as it ties in to American history. “I had many questions about our place as an ethnic group in America, and it led to me traveling across the United States in search of what it means to be a Chinese American,” he shares. Shaped by memories of “a childhood of seeing my mother work in a sweatshop, my father bellying up to the wok, and a Chinatown filled with hopes and dreams for my generation,” AnRong sought to depict through his photographs the distinctive experience of Chinese Americans across the States.
To view Oded Wangenstein’s work is to take a trip through the exotic and mysterious countries of Central and Eastern Asia. A tireless traveller and nomad, he has spent as much time as he can during the last seven years of his life recording the landscapes and faces of distant lands. Through persistence and hard work he has built a career as a professional photographer. His work regularly appears in prestigious publications such as National Geographic Traveler (Israeli edition). Now, with the release of The Visual Storyteller, he is the latest author to write for Craft & Vision. Earlier this week we connected online to chat about his new ebook and his life’s work.
It was cold. Very cold. But such a gorgeous, crisp, winters day last December when I headed to London to photograph Gemma and Martyn’s Dulwich College Wedding.
The sun was bright and it was, really, a very chilly day. As the guests arrived and took their seats, Gemma arrived in a London Black Cab ready for the genuinely lovely ceremony in the old library at Dulwich College.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-third Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Canadian documentary photographer Michel Huneault for Post Mégantic, his project on a small town in Quebec that was the site of Canada’s deadliest train disaster in 150 years. The $10,000 prize is given to encourage documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor and supports documentary artists—working alone or in teams—whose extended fieldwork projects rely on the interplay of words and images
Completely self-taught and refusing to be labelled as a photographer, Hungary-based visual artist Noell Osvald creates bold and striking self-portraits that are both minimalist and surreal. All shot in black and white, each photograph plays with lines, horizons, contrasts and poses to create abstract pieces of art that are perfectly balanced.
A dedicated street photographer, Ethan Chiang has created provocative images from Taipei, Taiwan, where he lives, and Seoul, Korea, where he has cultural roots. This is the story of his passion for street photography, what motivates his quest to transform the everyday into the extraordinary, and how he has inspired other photographers to follow in his footsteps.
For a year now I have been occasionally chatting with Iwona Pinkowicz through Twitter and aware of her growing interest for street photography. Iwona, a bidding London based street photographer, had a little while back sent a submission to join the Street Photography London collective. Although at the time I didn't feel her work was quite there yet, I could see there was definitely something encouraging there.
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