My Street Stories
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Street Photography, a delicacy for the soul
To acquaint you with raw emotions that our fellow human beings go through and to discover elements about them which cannot be done in life's haste otherwise, street photography acts both as an aid and as a luxury. To understand the dynamics of a society's functioning, perhaps pictures taken on the street can act as much as a guide-if not more-as thick tomes on anthropology and social sciences. When you are out on the streets lugging with your camera, every moment, every scenario that you come across looks like a theatrical setting-and your camera becomes a tool to capture the extraordinariness of it all.
If photographers tell a story through the pictures that they capture, it is really fascinating to realize that no two photographers have the same story to tell. Everything about their photographs- from their protagonists, to their narratives and even their backdrop will be different in a way that can only be understood by their viewer (or the audience of their story, if you will). And if you are a seasoned photographer, only you will have the eyes to discover the richness of street side happenings. Never will you come across the same incidents involving the same people in the same setting of a street in different visits. Capturing unpredictability is an art form in itself-something that most photographers aspire for! In any case, it is difficult to contrive spontaneous happiness as that reflected on a stranger's face when he discovers that he won the lottery, or the deep furrows of consternation on somebody's brow that actual stress can induce.
After exploring and capturing the street and its inhabitants, when you sit down to finally examine your day's art work, the real reward is discovering your photographs' unsuspecting muses revealing emotions that you routinely feel; thereby rending the veil of "them vs. me" into shreds. Simply put, with every trip you take to the streets with your camera as a companion, you become less of a photographer, and more of an explorer and an artist.
If photographers tell a story through the pictures that they capture, it is really fascinating to realize that no two photographers have the same story to tell. Everything about their photographs- from their protagonists, to their narratives and even their backdrop will be different in a way that can only be understood by their viewer (or the audience of their story, if you will). And if you are a seasoned photographer, only you will have the eyes to discover the richness of street side happenings. Never will you come across the same incidents involving the same people in the same setting of a street in different visits. Capturing unpredictability is an art form in itself-something that most photographers aspire for! In any case, it is difficult to contrive spontaneous happiness as that reflected on a stranger's face when he discovers that he won the lottery, or the deep furrows of consternation on somebody's brow that actual stress can induce.
After exploring and capturing the street and its inhabitants, when you sit down to finally examine your day's art work, the real reward is discovering your photographs' unsuspecting muses revealing emotions that you routinely feel; thereby rending the veil of "them vs. me" into shreds. Simply put, with every trip you take to the streets with your camera as a companion, you become less of a photographer, and more of an explorer and an artist.