Mexico City Street Photography Episode 4 (video)

Just released a new video on THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY CHANNEL.

After the binge of award-winning photographs in which the street photography of the competitions is clearly another thing from the real one, made by people who breathe and really live photography in a public place, i propose this video and though-provoking content here.

But you know contemporary street photographers or think they' are just the ones who win LensCulture? Guys, open your eyes, please…or you'll be watching birds soaring all the time and you think that stuff is street photography. I don’t mind. I don’t like to appear the copntroversial guy, pretending to say what is and what is not street photography, but…from the moment awards and festivals have taken over the definition to mind their own business, it's all a fake fair, so new generations approaching the genre on the internet see that photos awarded and…well, you know…the drift arrived at first with an excessive tendency to joke on the part of in public, the english collective. And someone started to think a ballon covering a gface was a great photo.

Guys, I recommend to see the work made by photographers in New York City to understand there is another street photography, the one that I like and I appreciate. I say the names: Joe Greer, James Berkeley, Paulie B., Mathias Wasik, Daniel Arnold, Andre Wagner…why I focus on the New York scene? Because they are not making photos that go in that form so appreciated by the dynamics of awards that constantly reward with icy scientificity things that do not stink at all of the street and that show only cool people-daddy's children…

I don’t have any fuckin’ problem, guys, I made my choice several years ago. For me, street photography is always the same and it certainly doesn't make me change my mind about it, a stupid competition put up by people who have never been and never will be street photographers. In fact the visual games leave me indifferent and I get excited instead of those who manage in fractions of a second to take a picture full of humanity, through gestures and expressions, making that moment caught in the street sublime.

And if you disagree, go ahead and keep your fucking pigeons…