Street Photography snubbed!

Did you notice that at some point street photography is snubbed by photographers who, in that way, rejecting the label think they have moved to another level?

Eje - 2022

It also happens that they actually continue to do street photography but they mask it with who knows what other unlikely labels such as conceptual, personal diary or they call themselves visual storytellers.

Of course it's a way of trying to stand out that can also be understood, but it still remains a pose. I don’t attribute excessive value to a label which, however, remains important to know what we are talking about. Useful for teaching and useful to make you understand that I don’t take pictures of the Milky Way.

I proudly call myself a street photographer.

If you follow this blog you know why. I have chosen the street as the place where I make photographs most of the time and certainly it will not be some current within the genre that will make me deny where I come from and what I do. I have always said that street photography is above all the essence of the experience because any good street photographer is different from another one.

At some point, starting from 2020, photographers who were inside the bandwagon distanced themselves from it, just to make the period we are experiencing even more dystopian. And this is perhaps the only good thing about the so-called new normal. We have seen photographers panicked and unable to photograph suddenly empty streets. Failing to understand that precisely that became an opportunity to question oneself and change one's approach, trying to document humanity and the changed social condition.

The result, we have already talked about, was the end of blogs, festivals and everything that had made the whole movement exciting and more exposed. I have always maintained that this moment would come and that only those who were really street photographers would remain. Today I feel that there are still many people interested in street photography but in a different way, probably in a more mature way, therefore better.

This blog flies the flag of street photography aloft. You are in the right place, guys.