{"id":1233,"date":"2010-11-02T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2010-11-02T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:55:48","slug":"a-video-interview-with-street-photographer-craig-semetko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/a-video-interview-with-street-photographer-craig-semetko\/","title":{"rendered":"A Video Interview with Street Photographer Craig Semetko"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I was on Twitter<\/a> and saw two tweets about this video, one from Jonathan Murray<\/a> and one from RooshPhotog<\/a>. It is a wonderful video which shows you Craig Semetko, a street photographer in action. He has been featured in countless exhibitions, and has even had his work side-by-side to street photography master Henri Cartier-Bresson. The music is great and gives you insight into Craig’s philosophies on street photography, which is quite inspirational.<\/p>\n

His Bio from the Leica Camera Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A street shooter in the tradition of Cartier-Bresson, his Leicas capture classic images that reveal the moment<\/p>\n

Perhaps this says all you need to know about Craig Semetko\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inspired Leica photography: In 2008 his work was featured along with images by legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado, in an exhibition entitled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Street Photography: From Classic to Contemporary \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Henri Cartier-Bresson and Craig Semetko.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In 2009\/2010 he mounted one-man shows at the Leica Galleries in Frankfurt, Germany, Salzburg, Austria, and at the Leica headquarters in Solms, Germany. His work was also recently shown opposite renowned photojournalist Elliott Erwitt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the group exhibition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Art of Photography Today\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the Camera Obscura gallery in Denver, Colorado. In June of last year he spoke on street photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City and he was the keynote speaker at the Leica Historical Society of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2009 annual meeting in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n

Semetko is inspired by the humor and irony that crosses cultural boundaries and he travels the world to find them. A graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a current masters candidate in Consciousness Studies at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, Semetko\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and numerous other international publications. Twenty of his images were selected to be published in the exhibition book Family of Man 2. Also, his book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unposed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came out in October from publisher teNeues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also has a an interview with the Leica Camera Blog where you can continue to read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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