Photography has the amazing power to show a slice of life virtually any corner of the globe, and I find projects harnessing this to be amazing. Joining my growing list of favorites of such works is a two-part series of Senegal street portraits by Berlin-based commercial, editorial, and art photographer Anthony Kurtz.
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Many street photographers find portrait photography to be very cliche but don't often talk about how it can and should be made better. And unfortunately, lots of street photographers don't understand how to express why that's the case.
“This photo almost wasn't taken at all,” the photographer Dominik Schulze tells me. Three years ago, he was on his way home to Dresden, Germany, after a trip to Hamburg, when two young women entered his six-seater train compartment in Berlin.
en you practice something for a long time, you have to ask yourself why it works that way", says Ernest Em about his unorthodox techniques. Also going by the moniker 19Tones, Em creates his portraits using glass prisms.
Fact: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Asking a stranger for a portrait isn't as difficult as it seems. And like anything, you sometimes just need to prep for it. But a few bad photographers have given the rest of us a horrible reputation.
Every day we allow people to walk past us without consideration for who they are. The same places and plenty of faces, yet they still remain strangers. But what if photography was able to bridge the gap, bring us closer and make a stranger a friend? For New York based photographer Jamiya Wilson, his project has done just that.
Welcome back to the second instalment of The Beginner's Guide To Shooting Street Portraits. Last week we defined what street portraits are, looked at how you should approach a subject and the best ways to handle rejection.
Feeling the need to see your street photography in a new light? We have just the stuff to inspire you. Saturation and strong flash are the tools of the trade for Italian contemporary street photographer Salvatore Matarazzo for shooting street portraits. Check out how he does this in his series called Smoke.