Street Photography as an opportunity to take portraits

Humanity-revealing approach.

Downtown - Mexico City, 2021

Roy De Carava and Gordon Parks gave us great lessons on the humanist approach to photography. The human face in photography is in itself already art. If we are photographers interested in the human it is impossible to do without the portrait.

My photographic predilection always contemplates it. For me, Street Photography is not about using humans as pawns on the chessboard of the frame. Photography of emotions and moods implies portrait.

My choice of focal lengths reveals this portrait-oriented approach, it is 35mm that touches 40mm. With these lenses on the street I am always ready even for portraits. Portraits in which the faces are beautiful. The 28mm is not suitable for what I want to achieve.

One thing that pleases me is to see some of the models I have worked with who enjoy my Street Photography. Which is not that much celebrated street photograph in recent years. I have always deviated from it, preferring that humanist vision that does not seek the hit, does not seek the balloons that become heads.

I will be pleased to see the photograph I take again because it is the one I like. I don't do it for others, I don't do it to reach consensus on instagram. I do it first of all for myself, because I want to collect these faces, that reveal moods. And thanks to this I understand a little more of the world, I understand a little more of myself.