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Street? No Street? It doesn’t matter, really.

There’s no such thing as a professional street photographer. Don’t listen to the “Japanese guy,” as a friend jokingly dismissed a Korean, or the guy who now does video interviews with street photographers and claims to be a professional street photographer. Just because you’re happy with your YouTube interview channel doesn’t mean you’re a pro street photographer: you’re someone who makes videos and lives off that as a “content creator.” But that’s the way the world works these days: many aim to manipulate, knowing that many are easily manipulated, by making people believe what isn’t true.

And the selection you see here is me, just me and my way to photograph. If street photography is not about making a life with photography, in the sense to pay the bills with that, I can still recognize that the only important thing to do is…making our own thing, to leave the experience as a photographer on the street, that is a personal thing and not to respect certain lines or rules.

All the great masters made their own thing and not respcting a code of rules. That is what I teach as a photocoach. The point is: the most serious thing to do with photography is to find a way to let your inner voice emerge. To be personal to become an author. That is.