Street Photography Highlights September 2025
I am a photography teacher and this creates a much more demanding commitment as a photographer.
From my perspective and according to my principles, a photography teacher can't rely on an outdated catalog of pre-existing photos. Instead, they should constantly renew themselves and demonstrate ongoing evolution as a photographer, sharing what they know with others.
For me, especially a street photographer in our era, should be a creator of photography on a daily basis, with a significant success rate of photographs, constantly motivated and hungry for new photography. And it must have an authorial strength which means personality, ideas, ability to express through one's own language and aesthetics.
In accepting to be a photo coach, I have to constantly put myself on the line and no, I don't send you alone to take photos, I come with you, I photograph with you, I share with you.
Why am I proposing this premise this month? Because the highlights on this blog and on the YouTube channel were born with this spirit, and I see it as a true mission. Here I am, not hiding myself, this is my photography and I am not living in the past, not giving the same workshop repeated ad libitum. Some months are good, others are simply bad. But here I am right now with the photos made this year, and this month.
That is where ends reality and starts the truth. And, honestly, as a man and photographer I think truth is better.
All women here. Layers. Actions. It is sufficient to me to open this month.
Oh, I love this photo. I written about this on substack. CLICK HERE TO READ IT
About the hierarchy of color. Sometimes I am lucky enough, just like here. It is authentic stuff, no bullshits. It is blurry. It is my imperfection made poetry.
When I speak of authorial strength, I'm referring to photos like these, which express a strong and courageous decision: I place the human subject in a corner while I show you something else, the city and its urbanism. Something you don't expect, deliberately unbalanced. Sealing an approach that doesn't give a damn.
Easy photo? Difficult? Well, you decide. But I love how I handled the foreground, midground, and background here. Filling the frame, I teach a lot about this.
My compositional choices are based on truth. As a photographer, I'm constantly subordinated to this. And it's a serious commitment.
These two images highlight how, for me, everything starts from the light on which I then base the rest.
Taking pictures on the subway is always a great challenge.
We street photographers are often creators of microcosms, at least that's how I see it. And when we put a small slice of existence into the frame, it means we've found poetry. And it's poetry that moves the world. Even in this most dramatic moment. We only need love and poetry. And I search for both every day.
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Yes, this September selection is a fine display of strength. And if you don't understand why, well, that's okay too. I am sure I have several photographers here inspired by this.
