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BNE Was Here, There, and Everywhere
Going through my photos from Bangkok from last year, I came across the featured image (above). It has the kind of juxtaposition I like: with the surfeit of visual messages on every object, including...
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When Your Street Photo Really Has to Be Square
Just before taking the above image I felt the familiar set of mental signals that tells me: “this is potentially a good shot.” The composition has all the elements I like: movement, purpose,...
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Will Street Photography Last for a Thousand Years?
I’m sorry for the ambiguity of the title. There are two questions here: will people still be taking candid street photos a thousand years from now? And will they still want to look at the street photos...
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Do Street Photographers Need the Validation of their Peers?
Comedians get validation when people laugh. Politicians get validation when you vote for them. Street photographers get validation when you look at their work and don’t complain about it too loudly....
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The Problem of Public Art in Street Photography
As a street photographer I’ve been keeping an eye on all these quirky bits of sculpture that keep appearing in places where you least expect them. I quite like one or two of them, like the Oscar Wilde...
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Walking Around a Roman Wall
What did the Romans do for us? Well, here in my home town of Colchester (Essex, UK) they built a rather nice wall, much of which is still standing after nearly 2,000 years. Not being able to venture...
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Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery in Street Photography?
Like everyone else, photographers learn from other people’s experience. If you want to succeed — at cooking, carpentry, or rattlesnake venom extraction — you need to bear in mind how people have done...
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Hacked Off
If you’ve visited this site during the past month or so, you’ll have noticed the lack of updates and the absence of featured pictures at the top of the posts.Sorry! The site got hit by the dreaded...
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Working With Layers in Street Photography, Part One
In street photography, layers are successive planes of interest and action, occupying the foreground, middle ground and background, each one holding information that captures the viewer’s...
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Working With Layers in Street Photography, Part Two
One of the keys to success in layering is to have meaningful correspondence between the different layers: between subjects in the foreground, middle-ground and background.It’s not enough simply to fill...
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