Tag / Street Photography

Street photography—gear, techniques, and mindset to capture authentic urban moments.

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  • Street photography in the digital age

    Street photography has changed in the digital age, but the heart of it has not: you are still looking, waiting and deciding what a moment means. Digital cameras, phones and online spaces make it easier to capture, edit and share work. They also make it easier to rush, over-edit or publish without thinking. A useful…

  • Predictions for the future of the genre

    Street photography is always changing because the streets, cameras and people in them are changing. No one can predict the genre exactly. But a few questions are already worth paying attention to: how new tools affect trust, how easy it is to make and share images, and what still makes a photograph feel personal and…

  • How to Grow as a Street Photographer

    Growing as a Street Photographer Takes Time There is no point at which street photography suddenly becomes easy. The street keeps changing, and so does the way you see it. Growing is less about collecting techniques and more about returning to the work: walking, noticing, making photographs, editing them honestly and trying again. Jump to:…

  • Lights of Berlin tram (BVG)

    Lighting and exposure of street photography

    Lighting and exposure are at the heart of street photography. They can turn an ordinary scene into a photograph with mood, texture and feeling. On the street, light changes quickly, so learning to notice it—and to expose deliberately—helps you respond when a moment appears. On this page What light and exposure mean in street photography…

  • Street Photography Timeline: From Daguerre to Digital

    A Short Timeline of Street Photography Street photography did not begin as one clean movement, and it has never had only one definition. It grew from photographers using the camera to record ordinary life in public: streets, shopfronts, work, leisure, chance encounters and the changing shape of cities. This short timeline gives you landmarks to…

  • Why Street Photography? A Way of Paying Attention

    Why Make Street Photographs? Street photography is a way of paying attention to public life. It happens in the space between a plan and a surprise: a gesture, a reflection, a strange meeting of people and light, or the small theatre of an ordinary street. You do not need an exotic place for it. You…

  • Streets of Berlin

    Where to take photos in Berlin?

    The best locations for street photography in Berlin- The ultimate guide. Since I’ve been shooting the streets in Berlin for a bunch of years already, and asked many times  what are the places I recommend to shoot in, I decided of making a short guide that summarizes the locations of where  I recommend street photographers to  grab their gear…