The Street Photographer inspiration
What inspires your Street Photography? I have been asked this question many times.
4 - Mexico City, 2021
The answer is very simple and immediate: it is life itself that inspires me. What I live on the street is the essence of what I photograph.
This way of understanding and living photography cannot be organized or planned. Rather we can say that the photographer needs to develop a certain sensitivity (most of the time innate) and, clearly, to obtain certain technical knowledge.
Subsequently it will be his ability to observe the world and translate into images through a capacity to react with respect to the event that occurs in moments in front of him. When you reach this point of understanding, there is no longer a crisis of ideas, that lack of enthusiasm which pushes you not to take good photographs.
For many years I have not known this crisis which corresponds to the famous blank sheet of the writer. When I go to the street I don't feel any pressure or that question that haunts many photographers: what do I do now?
Am I lucky? Maybe. But I believe that it is above all a question of mindset and of an approach that allows me to experience photography as a reaction to life around which it is always worth telling. Also in my workshops I teach how to achieve this kind of mental state that allows you to never be short of ideas or not enthusiastic about photography. Personally, there isn't a day that I don't take photos. This can be done as long as you are willing to completely change your approach to photography.
