About a year ago, when I started getting my hands into street photography, I was interested by only one thing: going out to take pictures of people (if possible good ones). I did not really care about the whys and hows of street photography, its history, its purposes or its masters. At that time, my only sources of information about the world I was about to discover were a bunch of short blog posts and some videos, mediocre for most of them. In a certain way, I wanted to remain relatively ignorant of the past and present directions of this genre in order to experiment more freely and to reduce the influence of others’ work on my photographs.
However, one documentary (or more exactly a series of three videos) that I discovered several months ago got stuck in the back of my head and somehow accompanies me when I am out taking pictures. It is a documentary by Chris Weeks (http://www.chrisweeks.net/), a very talented photographer based in Los Angeles, that presents the points of view of several photographers on street photography and shows the way they practice it. Hereafter are the three videos forming the documentary. I hope you’ll enjoy them.
Street photography – Documenting the human condition (Part I)
Street photography – Documenting the human condition (Part II)
Street photography – Documenting the human condition (Part III)
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“Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition” by Chris Weeks
About a year ago, when I started getting my hands into street photography, I was interested by only one thing: going out to take pictures of people (if possible good ones). I did not really care about the whys and hows of street photography, its history, its purposes or its masters. At that time, my only sources of information about the world I was about to discover were a bunch of short blog posts and some videos, mediocre for most of them. In a certain way, I wanted to remain relatively ignorant of the past and present directions of this genre in order to experiment more freely and to reduce the influence of others’ work on my photographs.
However, one documentary (or more exactly a series of three videos) that I discovered several months ago got stuck in the back of my head and somehow accompanies me when I am out taking pictures. It is a documentary by Chris Weeks (http://www.chrisweeks.net/), a very talented photographer based in Los Angeles, that presents the points of view of several photographers on street photography and shows the way they practice it. Hereafter are the three videos forming the documentary. I hope you’ll enjoy them.
Street photography – Documenting the human condition (Part I)
Street photography – Documenting the human condition (Part II)
Street photography – Documenting the human condition (Part III)
Related Photos: