Street Photography

 A reflection of every day life – real, unaltered impressions of public places, places that everybody visits every day, the streets where you live. The man walking to work, the woman applying make-up, the newspaper seller, the crowd on the steps.

The street photographer freezes a moment in time that most people will forget in the blink of an eye. Pacing up and down a footpath, street and public thoroughfare looking for the chance moment when everything falls into place for a fraction of a second. Recording the pulse, energy and rhythm of a city and holding up a mirror to society; anyone is capable of being a street photographer.

Effective street photography is about telling a story in a single frame, not simply recording what was there at a particular time and in a specific place. It is perhaps better categorized as a way of working than simply a genre in itself. The general consensus, however, is that images should be spontaneous with minimal interaction between subject and photographer.

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