Most photographers are visual people, which means writing about your work may not come naturally. However, if you’d like your work published, or you’d like to create a book, writing skills can definitely come in handy. Here at Street Photography Magazine, we’ve found that even those who don’t consider themselves writers can create excellent written content about their work by simply answering a few questions. If you’d like to write something about your work, here’s how you can do it in two
Valérie Jardin’s Teaching Moments
Teaching Moments is a new ebook by Valérie Jardin that will help you gain insight into the makings of some of her favorite photos. Valérie says, "This new book is an intimate insight into my thought and creative process from visualization to capture. Each photo story is a teaching moment as I take you on a photo walk in some of my favorite cities and beaches!" The book will give you a behind the scenes view of how Valérie captures special moments and provide you with the inspiration you need
2021: The Year of Women Street Photographers
In addition, we’re starting off the year with a January 2021 issue featuring work created entirely by women street photographers, which will go live on the 15th of this month. Keep an eye out for it. Want to help us showcase some of the talented women of street photography? Then tell us who inspires you! Send us an email with the contact info, website and social media links of your favorite street shootin’ gal and who knows? We might even select her to be one of our 12 featured photographers
Do You Have a Street Photography Routine?
Do your street photography habits rob you of photos or enable creativity? In the August 2020 issue of SPM, Bob Patterson considered that question in an article he wrote entitled, “Improve Your Street Photography with Simple Routines.” After a few bad habits robbed him of some potentially great shots, Bob sat down to examine his mistakes and come up with some positive habits and routines that would minimize missed shots and maximize decisive moments captured. Have you ever been so excited at
Call for Entries: Annual Women Street Photographers Exhibition
Ladies! The call for entries is out and the deadline is November 4th, which means there is still time to enter your images for what we know will be a stand-out exhibition curated by Gulnara Samoilova. Here are the rules, taken from the Women Street Photographers website: SUBMISSION RULES Submissions are welcomed from women and who identify themselves as women.There is no age restriction. The submission doesn't guarantee a spot in the exhibitions.The entry must show street photography in public
An Ultra-Wide Lens for Street Photography?
What's so special about 21mm lenses for street photography? In the September issue of SPM, Virginia Hines had this to say, "Because they squeeze a wider-than-“normal” field of view into the same frame size, wide-angle lenses change the spatial relationships within the frame so that subjects seem farther from the camera and the apparent distance between objects (in some cases, the objects themselves) are elongated, which yields both creative opportunities and challenges." True, there are plenty
Citizens of Hackney by Alex Amorós
Alex Amorós is at it again, this time with a project called "Citizens of Hackney." He describes the project like so: "Citizens of Hackney is a project carried out in the different areas of this Borough of London during August 2020. I have photographed in natural light and in colour to show the diversity, creativity, culture and variety of Hackney during this dark year." And that's really what struck me about this particular project. It's bright, happy even. It's almost hard to believe
Build Your Confidence on the Street
Have you ever felt nervous when you set out to do some street photography? There's a million reasons why we might and a million more now as we navigate life during a pandemic. Sometimes, you might feel like you have a big sign around your neck that says: "Hey! Look everyone! A street photographer!" Pandemic or not, drawing that kind of attention can make others nervous, causing them to avoid the gaze of your camera or hostile, provoking an unwanted conflict. So how can you become a confident
Out of Chicago Live Online Photography Workshop Weekend!
Hey gang! Looking for some new ways to take advantage of a global pandemic that's got you stuck inside instead of out on the street? Here's a great online event coming up soon. The Out of Chicago In-depth Photography Workshop Weekend is guaranteed to get you motivated and to amp up your photography skills. Our friend Valérie Jardin (who will also be teaching topic of unleashing the power of limitations with Chris Marquardt for four hours) describes it this way: "30+ advanced sessions from
View Photography’s Last Century at the MET Online
This exhibition will celebrate the remarkable ascendancy of photography in the last century, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee's magnificent promised gift of over sixty extraordinary photographs in honor of The Met's 150th anniversary in 2020. The exhibition will include masterpieces by the medium's greatest practitioners, including works by Paul Strand, Dora Maar, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy; Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and Joseph Cornell; Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, and
PPAC Presents Teen Photo 2019-2020
The Philidelphia Photo Arts Center has been putting on the Honickman Teen Photo Program for 10 years now. Teen Photo is an afterschool program that's free for Philadelphia public high school students. Here's how PPAC describes the program: Students are provided with a DSLR camera, and meet weekly with friends and mentors. Over eight months, they learn to take, edit, and print photographs, experiment with forms and genres, and explore the city through museum visits and photo walks. As the teens
