Reality Remade – Regina van der kloet – The Eye of the Beholder Photographer: Regina van der kloet Description: Markus Hartel street photography blog With zone focusing can be a life-saver between the decisive moment and a hit-and-miss-shot – toss the autofocus camera and get a manual lens instead… Zone focusing is pretty straightforward, the photographer simply uses the DOF (Depth Of Field) effect to have the desired object(s) at working distance in focus. Zone focussing comes in handy, when there is no time to fiddle with the camera controls, or when the photographer wants to be extra unconspicious – without using the viewfinder to focus (aka. shooting from the hip). Once you know what an f-stop is, and how to set it on your camera, you’re good to go. After some time you will get better at guessing distances and you’ll be a master of in no time… In the illustration above, the aperture (f-stop) is set to f8 and the focus is set to 2m (~7ft). The focus ring also shows f-stop markings to either side of the focus point (DOF scale).
Photos Capture Street Life in Havana As a child coming of age in Guatemala, New York-based photographer Jaime Permuth‘s perception of Cuba was shrouded in mystery and clouded by inescapable biases. When he visited the country in November of 2014 to speak at Havana’s Month of Photography, organized by La Fototeca de Cuba, he left all his assumptions at home, choosing to immerse himself within the realities of Centro Habana. A short week after Permuth’s return to Manhattan, President Barack Obama announced his intention to repair US-Cuba relations after fifty-four years of estrangement. When the photographer arrived at Casa Miriam y Sinaí, a cozy bed and breakfast managed by a mother-and-daughter pair, he had no way of realizing that he was about to witness a Cuba on the precipice of inestimable transformation. Amongst the remains of the formerly grand buildings that line Calle Neptuno, he lingered in search of the pulsing heart of daily life in Havana. All images © Jaime Permuth
The Death of Street Photography (and what you can do to stop it) Lately on the web, there has been a ton of buzz about the phobia that people are having about street photographers. We have been called creepers, pedophiles, and even in some cases, terrorists (as the TSA would like the public to think). Is all this anti-photographer sentiment leading to the death of street photography as we know it? Moments of Detachment and Solitude Captured by Street Photographer Caspar Claasen For the last few years, Amsterdam-based street photographer Caspar Claasen has been documenting the different sides of solitude, exploring the camera’s ability to isolate and express private moments of detachment experienced by subjects both young and old, human and nonhuman. Collectively, these individuals, animals, and inanimate objects form an ongoing series that teeters between the absurd and the melancholy. For Claasen, the interplay between these two attributes is a vital mechanism, “the tragicomical . . . something we can all recognize ourselves in – laugh, grin, but at the same time have a sense of empathy.” Even his more urban landscapes, void of human life, succeed in anthropomorphizing their inanimate subjects to appear as sweetly solitary stand-ins for their human counterparts. All images © Caspar Claasen Announcing The BlowUp NYC: A new photographic storytelling event presented by Feature Shoot.
IPA Street Photography Contest – 1st April to 1st June ’11 Invisible Ph t grapher Asia celebrates their 1st anniversary in April 2011. To mark this anniversary milestone, we are hosting our first Street Photography Contest. This contest is a celebration, a challenge, and a search for the best street photography and photographers in Asia. The contest is open and free to photographers of any level, and in any country of residence. Each photographer may submit up to 3 entries in total. Submissions must be in the street photography genre and shot in Asia within the last 12 months.
Jack Simon. Interview with co-winner of the first prize of the Street Photography Now Project (SPNP) Jack Simon: - What I really love is when I had no idea the photo was good and then get a pleasant surprise when I see it on a monitor. Perhaps my work helps me with an intuitive sense on the street, says Jack Simon, one of the two winners of the first prize of Street Photography Now Project SPNP. This interview with Jack has been done by email. Questions are posted by Olav Njaastad, who also has picked photos from Jack Simons Flickrstream following the interview. - Can you tell us your personal Street Photography story, how did it all start for you? Clarissa Bonet - City Space: Street Photography as Psychological Art The urban space is striking. Its tall and mysterious buildings, crowds of anonymous people, an endless sea of concrete constantly intrigue me. City Space is an ongoing photographic exploration of the urban environment and my perception of it. I am interested in the physical space of the city and its emotional and psychological impact on the body.
Yale University Press - The World Atlas of Street Photography There is no paternity test when it comes to pinning down street photography’s DNA. As this book demonstrates so clearly, it is a genre that borrows from other forms—sculpture, theatre, video, installation and participatory art—and mingles their many presences into single frames. If your idea of street photography is limited only to the classic names like Henri Cartier-Bresson or Garry Winogrand, this book will offer you a whole new world of possibilities. The familiar idiom of street photography is bounded by the idea of the photographer as a fly (or spy) on the wall. This figure is an auteur of the sidewalk, a roving eye who captures moments within the flow of street life, a merciless shutter arresting people’s motion as they go about their everyday lives.