The Fuji street shooter: What is street photography?

To answer this we must break down the question to the level of the elements. Street photography, so we have street and photography, well it should be easy then, it’s about photography on the streets. Wrong! Street photography is a broad label of any photography done in the public space or more specific the urban public space. So to further define street photography, we can say it’s the opposite pole to landscape photography (although there is sometimes an urban view even in landscape photography, so it’s complicated). Well I guess one shouldn’t define a genre by what it’s not, but I hope the message is clear. To summarize:

1. Photography in an urban environment (not up on an unpopulated mountain peak). But! If you make a photograph in the small village down in the valley from that same mountain peak, it could be considered as street photography.

2. People don’t have to be the main subject of a street photograph or even present in the frame, but for many street photographers people ARE the main interest.

3. A street photograph is showing a public space (or is made from a position that is on public space, hence a photograph of your children created in your living room is not considered a street photograph, because it is not a public space).

Some other topics I will write about this summer is: