Street Art, Street Life

I ordered a new photo book, Street Art, Street Life. It’s supposed to have work from 30 different street oriented photographers from the 1950′s to the present time (and was on sale at the American Book Center).

Bruce Gilden & Streets of New York

I love his style, I love how he “sees in black and white”.

Berlin

Berlin was full of images, most of them missed because I needed to focus on the story I was trying to follow.

Trent Parke Podcast

A Magnum podcast about one of my favourite photographers, Trent Parke.

In London there was a small Trent Parke exhibition recently; I loved seeing his work as large prints (they are so much more impressive that way). They also had his first book Dream/Life which I then tried to find to buy but it was impossible, it’s all sold out.

Straatfotograaf blog

I’ve been occasionally following this Dutch street photography blog, which seems to be from The Hague area. Sometimes interesting, sometimes not.

Shibuya Crossing

Decided to try street photography in one of the busiest places in the world, the Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. My technique was to stand firmly in the flood of people and just shoot, shoot, shoot whenever I saw an interesting person through my viewfinder. Nobody minded.

Otherwise Japan was photographically difficult; I was staring open-mouthed at everything and not observing calmly…