Technique is easy, Storytelling is the challenge.

Garry Winogrand said you can learn the technique in 2 hours, the difficult is to tell a story in a image. Of course, I agree.

When it comes to Street Photography the game is even more complicated. Fact is that you can’t build a story in anticipation. anticipation can be a matter of instants. Instinctive recognition of a potential that among other things you cannot fix, which in a second can disappear.

If, therefore, for other genres we can think of counting on certain technical support and preparation of the scene in street photography this is not possible. I am not saying that there is no technique on which to rely, but it is a decidedly different type of technique, based on decisions to be made always and only regarding the scene that is proposed in front of you. In a few moments and you already know that in an instant it will not already be the same.

Obviously there are some tricks and pre-settings for your camera. The ones converting your camera in a always ready camera, in order to have it ready to shoot. That is more easy than many can think.

The point is, again, what you observe and what you are able to tell through the photograph you make. And this, by now we know, depends on the sensitivity of the photographer, on the way of observing the world, on his humanity in being able to recognize a certain blunt and revealing humanity. That empathy that allows us to enter those intimate and so revealing moments of the human condition.

This passes through the life experience of the photographer and is what fascinates me the most, both as a creator of visual stories and as an observer and appreciator of the work of other photographers. The purely ontological discourse of the photographer and the act of photographing is a continuous source of considerations that often leads me to write about photography. As in this case.