Communication Breakdown: are the street photographers disappeared?

The Pandemic wiped out street photographers.

Mexico City, 2022

Guys, this is disheartening. This morning I wanted to publish an article on street photography blogs to follow in this 2022. And after I did some research I decided to give up. Why? Because there are not anymore street photographers blogging. The ones who were well known for their street photography blogs are not updating since 2020. The few left are posting photos without writing. One now wants to compete with Greta Thumberg with posts that have nothing to do with street photography.

This frankly is ridiculous. Today, street photography should bear witness to the crucial historical and social period we are experiencing. And the bloggers who own a street photography blog have no ideas and no desire, it seems, to share their experience and their thoughts. Street Photography was down even before the pandemic, but now it seems to have returned to what it was before: a photographic practice for the select few. But this clashes with the emails I receive, the photographers I publish, the chyes who take my workshops and still contact me because they are interested in gaining an experience in one of my classes.

The problem therefore seems to be inherent in bloggers. It seems as if everything they had to say they said. And in hindsight, many times they were always the same ideas and the same articles, like copying a plot with an SEO strategy.

What about your experience? What about to be a a sensitive being with a discreet culture, able to observe and make visible to others what the mass does not see? What about sharing what is now to photograph on the streets? The challenges that we are facing today? Anything is dead? So I have to think your passion is over? The enthusiasm shown was all derived from the fact that street photography was then in the spotlight and now that it is not there… do you do anything else?

I can’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it. Street Photography to me is a way of life. It is just how I see the world. A pandemic certainly does not stop me. Not even the war would stop me. Because it identifies who I am. I don't change.

Today I feel myself alone. It is not a good sensation. The entire movement of Street Photography needs bloggers. It needs content proposers. It needs ideas because ideas can inspire other photographers and helping the Street Photography community worldwide.

Please, help me to find street photography bloggers that are making the good thing today.