The essence of a street photography experience

There are often too many fake ideas on Street Photography

Staged, planned and modificated in post production is the most of Street Photography we see today awarded. To the point that we now know that what we see awarded and competing is most of the time competition stuff but that has nothing to do with street photography, at least the most sincere and valuable one.

If you see a cucumber skewered by a fork, doubts must assail you, otherwise you have no hope.

Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Joel Meyerowitz but also the first Bruce Gilden and Vivian Maier would be ignored by what is mainstream today, and certainly never rewarded. Yes, the great street photography of yesterday is considered obsolete today. Warning: everything evolves. But evolution is not always positive.

The photograph you see above is nothing special. But for this very reason I share it. An absolutely unprepared shot, taken on the fly, raising the camera at the last moment, by instinct. Movement is felt. You feel the non-perfection, not having calculated everything, the errors inside the frame. We see too often street photographs that stink of academia, when street photographers themselves had been a reaction to academies, to good salons, to what was too elitist and sectarian and did not smell of the street.

There are too many pussies. And I bet many will also be offended by using this term. I don’t care. If you want politically correct this is not your blog. This is a blog for street photographers.