Photography

About a month ago I gave a talk on street photography at EyeEm headquarters in Berlin. During the question and answer session, there was a member in the crowd who asked me the question: “What is your dream?”

Read as a Google Doc (where you can suggest edits, and also download as a PDF). — I recently came across the excellent book: “Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment”, an educational w…

I've been kind of in a rut lately when it comes to shooting street photography. I've been doing the typical thing of blaming everything else. It's the weather (in fairness, it was) or it's the fact that there's roadworks everywhere in Dublin right now, but the truth of the matter is it's just me. Not one to be undeterred, I decided that to get my mojo back, I'd try something different. I do like black and white images, but lately I've been mostly shooting colour, so I decided to set my camera to black and white, and see what happens.

My ambition was never to do yet another study on perception or to embark on an academic path to street photography. What interested me, was to see how I could use the tools as a photographer. Pictures, not words, have the highest priority.

Keeping our lenses safe is very important and there are lots of products on the market to do this job.  However, most of these products are quite expensive and overpriced for what they do. I someti...

If you spend time studying a particular genre of anything, you start to see the genre’s edges, as well as its internal patterns and repetitions. Groupings. Street photography (of people) has them, and I wanted to sketch out a few examples, list perceived pros and cons, and generally prove how writing something down helps to completely confuse the issue. Plus, classifying anything is arbitrary and dictitorial, which makes it that much more fun! I’ll be updating this entry with examples (maybe even in color!), as they come to mind.

When you first look at these beautiful wet and gloomy city scenes, you'd assume they were oil paintings. In actual fact, they're photographs, taken by Eduard Gordeev, a talented photographer from Saint Petersburg.

I really can’t think of any other discipline within photography that is more challenging, more demanding and more rewarding than street photography. With New Street Agenda, I am trying to build on that idea. It is a learning community and I am the first student.

Andrew Sweigart writes about how Mary Ellen Mark inspires him with her individuality in Street Photography!

This week’s Crit My Pic is a review of a street photo by Jorge Balarin. I’m still working my way through the

This week’s Crit My Pic is a review of a street photo by Jorge Balarin. I’m still working my way through the submissions we received while Crit My Pic was ‘off the air’, and Jorge sent his photo in March of this year, so this photo doesn’t have a title. Jorge’s shot is going to be analysed across 6 different criteria – I’ll say what I like about the photo, and provide any suggestions I can think of if the photo can be improved in any way. As usual, if you’d like to submit a photo for me to review, please read the rules below for submitting a street photo to Crit My Pic, and then get in touch with us!