UNDERSTANDING STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

The first time I saw the photo on STREET PHOTOGRAPHY(SP),I fell in love with it.It is about capturing the moment on the street that has unpredictable beauty in its own way.I know when I see one.So I took part in a few photowalks looking for something that I can capture and looks like street photography.Most of my so call SP shots are just photos taken on the street.I wanted to learn from my fellow colleagues,but many of them are doing similar like what I did.Looking at the international SP and oberserving the works of Marie Laigneau and Valerie Jardin,I discovered that many of us understand this subject at very superficial level.We need to know more and deeper.After reading their  articles, studying their photos and listening to their podcasts,now I think I undertstand what is SP.I cut and pasted as shown below the introduction on what is SP by Marie Laigneau in her ebook entitled Creating Impact.

Street photography is not about capturing the reality as it is: it is about, as we say, turning the mundane into the extraordinary. I am not talking about post-processing, but about vision: what you see and feel is what you will want to express. And unless you commit to see the world differently, you won’t create any meaningful street images. Seeing the world differently means paying attention to what others will not see by themselves, should it be the simple reflection of a woman in a bus window. It means looking at that city that we know so well, and yet discovering it for the first time, each time you’ll go out on your own. It means being able to see some form of beauty in the most common things, in the most common smiles, in the most common eyes. And it means not only seeing, but feeling – feeling deep inside us that a story is born, right in front of us. So how do we know when this happens? What should we be looking for exactly? The decision to shoot – and all subsequent decisions around framing, speed, depth of field etc. – is a very intuitive process. Yet, we can train our mind to recognize opportunities, and, in doing so, allowing us to become better photographers. This first chapter provides an overview of what I consider myself to be opportunities in street photography.-Marie Laigneau.

Now,I prefer to go alone for my SP activities and I created my own Facebook Page to archive my own version of SP photos. At first, I was a foreigner to Street Photography, now I am trying harder to be a local in the World of Street Photographers.

Below are some of the selected shots of what I understood as STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: