Last February we traveled to Philadelphia to visit our son. I’ve been there many times but never to Center City. So we used this as an opportunity to stay in this very historic and interesting part of town. To make it a family affair, my daughter took the train from Virginia which gave us an opportunity to all be together for the first time in quite a while. This visit resulted in a photographic epiphany for me. My best street photography opportunity was Sunday morning when my daughter was
The Narrow Line Between Documenting and Exploiting in Photography
All photographs were photographed on film. Photography as we all know, is an extremely unconcealed medium with a conclusion showing a vision realized after the Moment has happened. Once the shutter button feels the aftermath of pressure being applied, the latent image, the image, the photograph has escaped. Even when private photographs are placed into the safes our own private spaces, our eyes will privately revisit what was photographed. When the photograph becomes famous, the world has its
Mitani Monogatari
Changing life, who never dreamt about it? That’s what I am trying to do. I’ve grown bored with my “salaryman” life. Because I don’t have the skills for it. Because I’ve grown tired of it. Because it doesn’t meet my expectations anymore. I left the big city, the noise, and turmoil. I went to the country, the silence, and peace. I moved to my wife’s parents’ place. It is a different world here. It is in the middle of the country. It is in the middle of the mountains. It is in the
Paul McElroy – Irish Street Photography Group Photo Contest Winner
I loved the theme 'Windows Reflection' as I knew essentially I would be taking two photos in one, the subject and the reflection. I guess like a lot of street photography is having that quick eye to see and capture that unique image and I saw this solitude gentleman in a coffee shop on Westmorland Street in Dublin, just looking out at the world going by. He didn't move for about 20 seconds and so I was able to take lots of shots so I wanted to capture the busy people walking in the reflection.
A Journey Led by Street Photography
A Journey Begins My name is Ehsan Hemmati, I was born in 1980 in Kermanshah, Iran. My love for photography goes all the back to my childhood. I remember how I enjoyed taking photos with our family camera. Film was expensive and my family believed I shouldn't waste photos on cats and trees. Eventually, I saved some money and bought a used SLR camera when I was 16. I bought some film and that’s how my journey began. Later I tried out many different cameras and new gear hoping to become a
The New York Photo League of the 1930s
It’s a curious thing, the street. You almost can’t say what it is. For sure it’s more than the pavement on which folks walk. Or the blacktop surface on which cars drive. The street really is the coming together of many things. It’s the packed-in tenements or apartment houses in a big city. It’s even the rooftops of those houses. Because folks go up on the rooftops at night to escape the heat of summer. It’s the fire hydrant or Johnny pump turned on, on those hot summer days. It’s the grocery
The Hidden Harmony
The “hidden harmony” was an intuition of Heraclitus, one of the most major thinkers of Ancient Greece, who lived between 500 and 400 B.C. Heraclitus believed that there was a First Principle or Origin from which everything in existence began, and that everything is regulated by an eternal law, the logos. However, Heraclitus affirmed that the Origin loves to hide herself, which means that she appears in things and can be “seen”, not through thinking or reflection, but rather only through total
Photography Changed Me
This is my first ever visit to the island nation of Haiti. The country is still feeling the remaining effects from the recent catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake that made major headlines around the world. Viewers are astonished at the level of destruction they see, the outpour of humanitarian aid is unprecedented, and the future of the country is now more uncertain than ever. When I was hired by a group of doctors that offered me the opportunity to photograph and document their
The Clock of Life in Street Photography
The importance of Street Photography can seem unrecognizable in this day and time, due to the influx of cameras being placed in every kind of device that the human mind can think of. We have calibrated into a society that needs to see everything as soon as the photograph has been captured. The popularity of photography has every field fading into hours and hours of uploading, fulfilling timelines, newsfeeds and trending hashtags. In a way, this can water down and desensitize The
The Gift of Klein
You can tell a lot about William Klein just from the title of his 1956 book of photos. "Life is Good and Good for You in New York" is like no other title. And the book really is like no other book. His title of course is ironic. He's mocking advertising jargon. But a great mocker like Klein always has something else up his sleeve. In spite of the biting irony, you can't help but feel — after seeing the photos in the book — that Klein believes his title. He does think life is good and good in New
Street Photography Spotlight on Cleveland
I moved to Cleveland in 1975 after college with plans to stay a short time, then move to a “cool” city. Little did I know that I would make this place my home for the next 40+ years. And I don’t regret it. In the mid-70s, Cleveland was a very gritty city with polluted air that would settle on everything around it, leaving an orange crust that would pit the finish on cars. Lake Erie, after nearly 200 years of industrial abuse, was polluted with dead fish that littered its shores. During this