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  • “Letters from a Recovering Camera Addict” Step 2: The Pact

    This article is written by Josh White, originally posted here. The views posted here are his and his alone and may or may not be shared by the website as a whole ;) Disclaimer: Sarcasm doesn’t always transfer into written word.  Well, “tomorrow” turned into a week. Thank you for those who worried that I…

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  • “Alone” by Damien Rayuela

    Damien Rayuela, an incredibly talented street photographer and former intern at Magnum put together a wonderful new series titled: “Alone“. His raw and gritty images are bursting with emotion, and tell a very personal story from his life. As stated from his site he describes the series: “Encapsulating those moments when breathing alone feels like…

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  • Conquering the Streets of Mumbai by Kaushal Parikh

    Street photography grabbed my attention only about 3 years ago when I stumbled upon images made by photographers like Cartier Bresson and Joel Meyerowitz on the streets of Paris and New York. Those images were so real. So unposed. For the first time I felt emotionally connected to still photographs. I wondered about the people…

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  • Photo Essay: The Imaginative Street Photography of Siegfried Becker

    For many years I used a studio for the majority of my photography. The attraction of this kind of photography lay in creating artificial imagery, but today I find my subjects in the streets. Life writes the best stories and practically no other area of photography proves this better than Street Photography. When you look more…

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  • How to Master “The Decisive Moment”

    “The Decisive Moment” was a term coined by the pioneer of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson. During his time, photography was still a relatively new art medium and it wasn’t taken seriously. Furthermore, photographers were often criticized for not having the same discipline and creativity as traditional artists as photographers can create their images in a…

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