She is in the game

She in the sense of the subject in the photo. A photo from 2015 is today an opportunity to reflect on what it is to photograph on the street.

Busted! Mexico City, 2015. Alex Coghe

The reaction caused.

The different situations on the street define the metabolization of one photo compared to another. The protagonist, unaware until a moment before she is, gives the content to the photo with her expression. And her expression is priceless. It makes the photo. I don't really like to tell the before and after of a shot. Because I am convinced that a photographer must preserve a certain mystery compared to the photos he takes, but it happens that I am also a blogger…

After the shot she smiled at me. Do you think about what has not been said does not contextualize the work of a photographer?

The inclusion of a subject in a street photograph is a subjective choice, which gives full power to the photographer. In a matter of seconds a photographic work is defined and this is the difference from all the rest of photography. It makes stars of an image people you don't know. And we must always do it with absolute respect.

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David Lykes Keenan’s humanist street work is featured in issue 88 of THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER NOTEBOOK