Documenting the Human Experience
Getting Started in Chicago Street Photography Tip – Photographing Buskers (Street Musicians) Heading out into the streets with your camera to photograph strangers can be intimidating. People today generally do not like their photos being taken. One good way to…
Street photography should be about capturing the human experience in an urban setting. Today, it seems things have somehow been reversed; the urban environment is now the subject of the photo, with the human serving as little more than a…
When you spend years shooting street photography in the same area, you get to know people on a personal level. That’s why I prefer long-form street photography projects over a drive-by snapshot approach. Sabo was a guy I got to…
Chicago Street Photography: Alley Boys – Down On The Corner – Radical, Bruce, and Teddy – Corner of Adams and Wabash, Chicago I spent five years hanging out with these guys. Over the years, Teddy and I became good friends.…
I want to invite you to connect on Substack. Substack is quickly becoming the next best social media for artists. I like it because I see who I want to see without all the clutter we find on Facebook these…
Chicago Street Photography – Playing Picasso In a way, every photo is a tragedy. A photo captures an instant in time, and then that instant is forever gone. The innocence and youthfulness in these children have long since passed. If…
What John Free taught me about “straight” photography Not just “street photography” but “straight photography.” John Free was a social documentary/street photographer who lived in Los Angeles. John and I spent time together photographing in Chicago. I first discovered John…
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