STREET PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES

SOUTH AFRICA | NEW YORK | VIETNAM

Title: The Streets Of Our Lives

I savour the moments, looking and waiting for interesting scenarios and images to appear, whilst I roam the streets or the places I live in or visit. I look for peculiar, interesting, or moving moments - the instant visual moment that touches me on an emotional level or makes me acutely aware of my environment is the one I want to document.

Images that relay a sense of social commentary or possible historic value are also of interest to me. My camera becomes an extension of my sight. The viewfinder turns into my own frame of observation and perception. My finger poised on the shutter-release awakens my acute consciousness. It is this natural, tactile, and intuitive sensation that I feel within me that drives me forward to compose and recompose, to twist and bend, to click and freeze the moment in time which I consider significant.

My preferred format is Black and White which ties nicely into street photography. It accentuates drama, textures, lights, shadows. Street Photography is all about an immediate reaction to a fleeting moment in time - this creates the rush and the electric charge that I feel whilst I take the picture.

I get to live and absorb the lives and emotions of others - I like to absorb these qualities as they remind me of my own life and emotions. Images that I really like are those that personally resonate with me and the street is alive with stories and images.

Often, especially portraits, the more emotive and real images are those which catch my attention. Within my street photography I take plenty of images of people from behind, giving context as to where they are going or what they are looking at. I also find it is suitable as when we walk in the street we walk with the flow of people, often behind them. It’s a point of view we can make sense of. The series of street photography images I have chosen for this exhibition span across the continents and cover New York, Vietnam, and South Africa - and as a body of work, shown together, they express and clearly show the universality that our various cultures, people, and places exist in.

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