Here I am again talking about the practice of taking portraits of strangers on the streets. This time, I’m equipped with knowledge from reading documentary books, studying photography history, and learning from my mentor Steve McCurry, so I think I have a bit more credibility than I did the last time I wrote about this in Camera Clara.
Some of us might see photographic work of portraits and try to replicate it just by looking at the result. The photo is the end, but if you try to achieve it skipping the middle, chances are to fail, and to make it even worse, we are bombarded with Instagram photographers who approach others on the street with the following script, caught on camera and everything:
“Hi, I’m a street photographer, I take photos of people. Can I take a photo of you?”
Fuck me, that’s the absolute worst thing you can do.
