My Street Photography in 2022
What you can already see on my new visual blog makes us understand the new course of my photography.
It's still me but with a different thrust.
Yesterday I went back to downtown and in a few hours I made a lot of photos. There is a energy that I didn't see in the last 2 years. CDMX is the new NYC. If you love street photography you have to visit Mexico City. It is like NYC in the 80s when Joel Meyerowitz went on the streets of the Big Apple. And you could also consider a workshop with me to make a different experience.
It is not on quantity that a photographer is measured but certainly we street photographers are photographers different from others. If you happen to be in a lively and dynamic city, I think it is natural to photograph much more. the point is to do it right, be on the place and know how to make photos of a certain level.
And yesterday the capital showed me renewed energy. I see the final people more relaxed and all this makes the photographic experience much better. It made me think about the next students I will have, how much fun we will have during my workshops.
Like everyone, over the years I have had some phases as a photographer that have led me to make my workshops a mirror of what I love to do. Even if the focus remains the student, inevitably, I carry my experience and therefore what I am passionate about in that given period. But what I have inside today is a different awareness. After spending some time doing something else and therefore also pausing my side most linked to street photography, today I listen to myself more than in the past.
And today I feel I really support my voice and my approach as a street photographer: I am a photographer who goes from shooting in your face to one more linked to the composition. And I consider myself more similar to American street photography because I live here in America and because for me it is humanity, the character, the gestures, the expressions. This interests me to show with my street photography.
I feel that vibrant feeling of being at a new turning point. I feel it from the change in the small details, but I feel it above all in the way I am doing street photography. For how I move on the street.
Photography as a parallel to what life is. A path that is not necessarily straightforward, which counts with pauses, abrupt interruptions but always ready to start again because and in that process there is growth, our improvement. We are living through a very difficult period in the history of humanity. I think the tension belongs to everyone now.
Personally, I am using street photography as a therapy. When I'm on the street I just enjoy the concentration and determination with which I document the world around me. I don't think about the ugliness and violence of the world. I connect with the street to find the most intimate part of myself, the less chaotic and humoral one. I go deep inside where I find calm and positive thoughts, in a Zen circuit that relaxes me.
It is me.
It is my photography.
It is the people in front of me.
My Street Photography in 2022.
