15+ Inspirational Street Photography Videos You Must Watch

WOW.. great list of videos… shoot Im going to be watching all night.

I just created a Video page on my blog the other day, and the videos I don’t have I’ll definitely be adding! Great list!

Whoa! I need to spend some time on these. I did watch Joe Wigfall’s video. I see alot of myself and values in this man.

Great Link Eric! Much appreciated!

Hi Eric,

I am very inspired by your work and your photographs. Your blog became one of my absolutely favourite websites. I check it out daily.

To this list of videos I would add a classic video about the old master HC Bresson ” The decisive moment”

Thanks for sharing your knowledge ! ! !

Dominic

Hi Eric,

I do realize this list is about street photography. I hope you don’t mind if I put a link up for ‘camerabag’ this site has a wonderful collection of short films of very inspiring photographers.

I am not certain if they are still producing their films as hey have not uploaded anything in some time.

Enjoy

http://camerabag.tv/

Eric perhaps you may already know about this site, do you know whats their future ???

Hey Eric,

Thanks for posting these videos they are a huge inspiration
pushing photographers to not take the easy way, but the difficult way to
produce fruit as a photographer and an artist.

First to the readers of this soon to be long comment and
opinion, let me say this I am not an Eric Kim and Charlie Kirk hater, in fact,
at first I was skeptical of Eric Kim—especially in the information age of the
internet one cannot trust the labels on anyone. But I kept watching and reading
his stuff, and I appreciate the information that provides—the material fosters
the photographer instead of killing his passion. There is a lot of tips that
Eric provides in encouraging aspiring photographers to see excellent work to
pushing the ISO to 1600 on the rangefinder after putting in the black and white
400 ISO film. The advice that you give I believe is selfless wanting his
readers to progress in this field rather than digress because of a lack of
knowledge about the medium. To all the haters, Eric is young, I love his passion
for photography, his selflessness in regards to the tips he provides, and I am
sure we will see a lot of great work from him in the future, as he is letting
his photos marinate in the juices like a steak.

One thing confused me a bit in regards to using the 35mm—I
know it was not fully prescriptive—but the blog strongly stats that the 35mm
focal length is ideal for street photography, as if that focal length is the
only way to go. In Charlie Kirk’s insightful documentary, Kirk stated that as
well being very strong that he does not respect the 50, 85 and above
users—although the 50 is not even labeled as a telefoto lens. I can understand
this context a bit, I do go to Flickr myself, yet I could understand that there
are a lot of photos that seemed to be taken with ease because one was far away
and not close up. And maybe Kirk wants to distinguish himself from the telefoto
users, because in this photography field I understand is very competitive and
difficult. I like his subconscious challenge to photographers to use a 35mm
focal length or below for street photography, yet I felt that prescription was
more in the spirit of Macho-ness (for lack of a better word), than logical.
Kirk stated in the documentary that he did not have any philosophy that he
brought to the photographing table, but it is clear that his methodology and
philosophy is that the process of taking a good to great photo is more
important than the end result of the photo. When one takes a shot with 200
telephoto lens I think one could tell from the one taken with the 35mm—not just
in the quality of the photo, but when one is closer to the subject the
photographer has a better idea of what is going on, plus he is trying to put
himself in that subject’s context.

Cartier Bresson used a 50. Rene Burri used a telephoto
lenses (producing outstanding work), and Elliot Erwitt (Kirk likes his work)
was said to use telephoto lenses on occasion, and I am sure many more masters
used it as well. Bruce Davidson used mostly his Pentax SLR more than his Leica for
his phenomenal work “Subway.” Does this discount his work? Because he used an
SLR? Does it take away from Rene Burri’s work because he used telefoto lenses?
Or Bresson?

Eric you mentioned in a blog post, justifying Bresson’s use
of the 50mm, the only reason that you gave that Bresson used a 50 was because
cities and places where they shot were more spread out in the 20th
century, that is the only reason you gave. I can’t buy that reason, it’s a
logical fallacy and one is putting words into Bresson’s mouth. Bresson died in
2004 did he ever say that in an interview that he would have been better suited
with a 35mm because cities are more crowded and that the streets are more
narrow? If he said that I need a footnote.

I know that the blog is not directly stating this but I get
this tone:

Leica M series, film (not the 7 or the 9 because of the
aperture priority) or any true rangefinder + a 35mm lens = good, respected
photographer.

Any other camera that is not a rangefinder + 50mm lens or
above = poor benighted soul that is not working hard as the ones with the 35mm
focal lenses.

I am with Kirk on his dislikes on overly doing it on the
post processing, HDR, etc, but in developing film many people who spent their
days in the dark room would find similarities with things that can be done in
the darkroom and things that could be done in light room, but not only that it
is clear that Bresson’s staff or editors clearly cleaned up his work and worked
on the details before his photos were printed into a book, check out Bresson’s
documentary the impassioned eye. Again I’m with Kirk though that over doing it
in the processing, HDR and all that stuff are dislikes in my books as well.

I was wondering if any of the masters from Magnum or another
agency stated their opinions on the 35mm or using the 50mm?

I agree with Kirk that the digital camera is easy to use.
Doing things all manual makes on a photographer, but there needs to be more
clarification on the 50mm focal length.

Please respond.

Sincerely,

Peter