The Photography of Damian Lidgard
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
Now that I have returned from Sable Is., I can continue with the street photography posts, each Friday. Enjoy!
Be joyful! Dance in the street.” – Munem Wasif
“Look for clashing colours – the more lurid the better.” – Bang Byoung-Sang
“Talk to strangers, let them take you to places.” – Mark Alor Powell
Waiting for the elephants
Follow me
Following
Charles Flowers on Elliott Erwitt’s Handbook (2003)
“Always include hands, because they are more expressive than the face”
"...as much as 60 percent of all human communication anywhere in the world is non-verbal, being accomplished principally with the hands"
"...we want to touch and be touched, or we wither away and die"
“Photograph like an assassin; suddenly and silently” – Osamu Kanemura
Colourful shadow
Another photograph I took while walking the streets of Kochi in India. I was just watching this person walk and then saw my shot.
Here are two other images that work well for this assignment.
Junction
Chaos
“Get lost in a thicket of signs and structures” Wolfgang Zurborn
I found this assignment hard. At first I thought of a typical street with lots of signs and structures, really busy to the eye. I found several images that were full of chaos; lots of lines, angles, colours, shapes, structures and signs. In the end I settled for an image that was relaying a lot of information to the viewer but was still calming to look at.
“Document some evidence of human ingenuity that would otherwise go unnoticed. Do it without including any humans in the picture” Michael Wolf
This is a simple photograph but one that stopped me in the street: contrasting and strong colours with a geometry.
Bricks
Fine-Art Prints with acid-free mat and foamcore backing. Sealed in acid-free polythene bag.
