Photography

Devoid of its characteristic fiery colors, these photographs aptly depict autumn with the melancholic air that's often associated with it.

Two questions often surface when people see my work. These are “do you ask people for permission to take their photo?” and “do people ever notice you and get angry with you for taking their picture?”.

To put it simply, I do not ask permission, and people have never got angry with me to date, but I believe this is due to the approach I have developed over time:

For the past 29 years I’ve been traveling to China for my day job as an industrial designer to manage the ramp-up of new products manufactured in China. I’ve discovered that it’s become a common career path for product designers to morph into Asian sourcing managers because of our background in product development. That’s exactly what happened in my career about 30 years ago, with the exception that I’ve remained active in product design plus I’ve become a street photographer in China over the course of the last 5 years.

Some photographers make zines, others run websites, and some publish full-fledged magazines. The latter applies to Vineet Vohra, an India-based street photographer, who cofounded Art Photo Feature with his brother Rohit, also a street photographer. While Vineet is an avid street photographer, he doesn’t confine the magazine to just that genre. Here he shares insights to the genre he loves and what it’s like to run a magazine.

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This month’s featured artist is twennys. A street photographer from Europe!
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A sweet, deeply inspirational ode to the creative child inside us all, and a challenge to set her/him free upon the world once more.

Most photojournalists covering the pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine work in the Donetsk area, where a small industry of fixers and drivers has developed. Images of the same people in similar scenes are frequently the result.

So I hear squabbling on the camera shelf. Oh yeah I hear it I tell ya and my shrink at the VA says I hear it too soooo? Well, anyway as it turns out Andre’ the Fuji X100s and Garry the Nikon Coolpix A got into it. No fist were thrown, c’mon cameras might talk and curse but they ain’t got no hands to fight with. So that means in a camera battle, features are what wins the war. As it turns out Garry the Nikon Coolpix A decided he wanted to move and find a new partner. Andre’ and Walker the Oly Pen EP-5 were both happy. So I packed Garry up and got him ready for someone to love him. In actuality, I have only made 701 frames with him and that’s not using a camera at all and he’s right, he should be with someone that will appreciate him and use him.

Louis Stettner (born November 7, 1922) is an American photographer of the 20th century whose work includes streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its humanity and capturing the life and reality of the people and streets of both cities. Since 1947, Stettner has photographed the changes in the people, culture, and architecture of both cities.

In this episode of ISO 400, we hear from a Fadi BouKaram, a street photographer based in Beirut and one of the founders of Observe, an international collective of photographers who recently had their first gallery showing in Iserlohn, Germany. Beirut has recently seen a spate of protests in response to all the garbage that has been piling up on its streets, and Fadi has been out there after work to photograph them. He is not, however, a photojournalist, so there’s no pressure to get his images published. This frees him to take a more nuanced and artistic approach to protest photography,

This street photography essay was submitted to Edge of Humanity Magazine by Photographer Martin Murray.

I must personally admit initially when i started out exploring my passion for street photography i was very shy as a person and i always thought it’s not polite to photograph unknown people. I always wondered how do street photographers take photos of complete strangers without permission and not get punched in the face? Taking pictures of strangers can sometimes be intimidating. Indeed it takes some guts to grab a camera, head out in the streets, and start snapping away at complete strangers. And for the bashful person like me it was very difficult besides that there were times when i was not inspired at all , which made it even more inconvenient for me to go out on the street and shoot. Grappling to stay focused on street photography at the back of my mind i always knew that the only way out this situation was to learn the techniques to overcome this fear and keep glued to street photography. It took me less than year to overcome the fear of shooting strangers pictures using different techniques and some tip from masters in the field.