The Street Photography Bloggers Crisis

This year I started this new blog. And to get to know the niche where is positioned,I have to read up and look at what others offer and I discovered a thing…

…what I discovered? The bloggers who specialize in street photography are in crisis. A profound crisis of ideas that leads to scarce updates on the one hand and when no to posts that are completely off topic.

A crisis that in my opinion is to be found in this gigantic stasis generated by two years of pandemic, but which cannot be ascribed only to this. Because good or bad in the world you can still go out and make photos.

There is certainly a crisis of ideas and a loss of enthusiasm among many photographers and this is a general problem and not only linked to the world of street photography. But in our specific case I have amply said that this era must be told. We really have the opportunity to be witnesses of our time. These are dark times in many ways. With extensive censorship and a totalitarianism of ideas disguised as politically correct. If you don’t think with the globalist narrative you are excluded from certain dynamics, just as happened to me this year, with that brand. But I repeat this cannot justify blogs that have not been updated for years or 6 months now.

Then you come across a blogger who now wants to follow in Greta Thumberg's footsteps and so you find in his blog texts that have nothing to do with street photography, clearly lost in the influencer season.

I don't hide it. On the one hand it is my victory. I remain true to the line. And who had kissed the ass of certain characters today ends up with nothing. My blog meanwhile is steadily gaining ground despite having to start over at the beginning of the year. But the fact that there are fewer and fewer street photography blogs, with some converting only to youtube and others lost as we said, is not a good thing. In the circulation of ideas, even opposing ones at times, a circuit of inspiration is nurtured for everyone. If street photography blogs aren't in good health, the whole movement collapses.

I have seen it flourish and I have been a witness, perhaps even one of the protagonists of the boom in popularity of street photography and I had largely foreseen this phase of profound crisis. But today I'm here writing this piece because I haven't changed. The Street Photographer tattoo still stands out on my left arm. And I repeat: today street photography is real journalism. It is for the political and social situation. It is and because from the observation of the human condition on the street we can understand a lot of what is happening. And we can document it in a truly freelance way.

This is why we need street photography bloggers back to make their work.