This is the fifty-first ‘Instruction’ for the Street Photography Now Project, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we all live in.
“Buildings are like humans and have their own character” – Alexey Titarenko
Street photography: week fifty
11 May, 2012 ⋅
This is the fiftieth ‘Instruction’ for the Street Photography Now Project, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we all live in.
“Say it with flowers” – Johanna Neurath
Street photography: week fourty-nine
4 May, 2012 ⋅
This is the fourty-ninth ‘Instruction’ for the Street Photography Now Project, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we all live in.
“Read the street in front of you by saying to yourself everything that you see happening both near you and coming toward you (the text of the street) and the picture will present itself.” – Joel Meyerowitz
An evolution in photography – Chapter Two – A dramatic arrival
7 March, 2012 ⋅
I began taking photographs in 1990 using my camera to document the natural world around me. From the early to middle 2000′s I found myself drawn to simplistic images, such as small groups of pebbles on beaches or single leaves on the ground. The images were not startling but they were interesting to me. I didn’t understand this shift but I didn’t fight it either and sort of fell into it.
In early 2005 I suddenly lost my father to cancer. This was my first experience of death and it came at an already difficult time; I had just emmigrated to Canada from England, I had no creative outlet and I was struggling with my science career and didn’t know where I wanted it to go.
So I fell and dropped everything. I began spending lots of time in England at my mother’s home trying to understand what had happened and pulling myself together. At that time, while I was in England the only thing I could do was photograph; I could not work on science at all nor think of where I wanted to go in life. My eye, however, was entirely engaged drawn to simplicity in every form.
Next week, in Chapter Three, I begin to understand where my eye has taken me and will introduce the contemplative photography style of Miksang.
Street photography: week forty-five
17 February, 2012 ⋅
Street photography: week twenty-eight
20 August, 2011 ⋅
“Go somewhere you haven’t been before – a dog show, a polo match, a monster truck rally – and remember, the interesting things often happen at the fringes away from the main ‘action’.” – Paul Russell.
The three images below were all taken on the periphery.
Bag pipes
Mother and son enjoying the Tattoo parade with some ear protection.
From behind
Although not on the periphery of an event, these beach huts on Brighton seaside front have very colourful fronts and are often photographed from the front. They have a different appeal from behind.
Lets talk
I took this photograph while in Cuzco, Peru at a festival during Easter.
Street photography: week twenty-seven
12 August, 2011 ⋅
“Bend the rules and play tricks with the mind; make documents of moments that have never existed.” – Peter Funch
When these moments occur I find they are full of humour. I really enjoy finding them.
Didn't you know
Glass cars
Legs
Street photography: week twenty-six
5 August, 2011 ⋅
“If you’re not sure it’s a picture, shoot it anyway” – Carolyn Drake
These two images, from many others, were occasions when I saw something but was unsure whether to shoot it or not.
I think if one has reached the stage of trying to decide whether to click the shutter, then one has already thought too much about the image and should move on.
Woman with book
Gap
Street photography: week twenty-three
16 July, 2011 ⋅
“There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in” Leonard Cohen, Frederic Lezmi.
Two quite different views, one of a broken ladder taken in an old light house in Cape Breton, and the other a scene at a christening in Hove, UK.
Broken ladder
In the church
