5 things need to go in street photography

I take responsibility and declare it

Street Photography in the last years has been contamined and has too much homogenization which often leads to irrelevant and forgettable things. I made a list of things that should go:

Animals: Animals are beautiful but in street photography I see most of the time mean irrelevant photograph.

Visual Gags: Street photography is about capturing real-life moments than jokes. Visual gags can feel staged, forced. And talking most of the time of the photographer and not of the world around. It is a selfish approach, that lead to immediate likes on instagram (I hope that is not your goal) and totally forgettable in…minutes. Pathetical just like a guy who should explain me all the time his visual jokes.

Silhouettes: C’mon…are you still at the “school of photography” stage? Silhouettes can be dramatic, but they often lack detail. they are repetitive, boring, and there is not involvement.

Underexposed Shots: Underexposure can lose detail and make your photo look like a mistake. In fact: in times of film most of those shots proposed today the lab avoided to develope, considering them an error. The underexposed shot, with photos with a lot of blacks in the frame are a ploy for those who have co-position problems that no longer work.

Heavy Edited Photos: Street photography is about capturing authenticity and street photography has the snapshot aesthetic in its DNA. Heavy edits make the scene feel fake, artificial.