Many people today think that street photography is a genre that’s only about random shots of crowds of people walking up and down busy city streets. That’s so cliche…
Street photography is so much more than that. It’s about finding the extraordinary, strange and beautiful in what may seem at first glance “ordinary.” It involves capturing emotion evoking images with human interaction, gestures, decisive moments, sometimes vivid colors and more. We must do our best to live up to that standard.
How can you avoid a cliche approach to street photography? We found a great YouTube video by Ibarionex Perello, one of our favorite street photographers, about just that. See for yourself:
