This applies to all genre’s of photography but of course my concerns will be Street. The world has many people in it. Many of those people are photographers. A good amount of those photographers are very serious about what they do. Some of those photographers are Street Shooters and some of those Street Shooters are very serious and some are not as serious.
So my point is, that a very serious street shooter is part of an esoteric community of like minded individuals. These shooters are an international group with different cultures, speaking different language but….that share a common goal of working the street….wherever that may be. There exist a strong satisfaction when another shooter praises your photo or likes it….
The street is loaded with mystery, intrigue, history and history yet to be forged. There is life out there. There are images yet to be found. There are shooters that are called poets of society, the street shooters. Street Shooters are Citizens of the world that record what the world looked like while they were on it…..
……..if that makes them esoteric….so be it….I’m guilty as charged….
This post is dedicated to my friend from Moscow Russia………..
Strong text. Strong photos. I am not a streetshooter but love good street pictures..
Vidar, maybe your not a street shooter but your a hell of a good shooter with what you do…
don
streetshooters do what they do a million different ways …but when it strikes that chord… it transcends and becomes something purely visual , then the street become a point of departure…a reference to the real world that are now shapes
but the can still evoke human emotion , even as they achieve an aesthetic emotion
It’s said that street shooters are the lost poets of society…..there may in fact be over a million different ways to do the street, I fully agree with that. The common denominator in those numbers that define STREET…is LIFE….
P….I’d like it if you could post some photos here and maybe some thoughts…..
let me know….
don