2New York’s Chinatown
by Robert Glick
New York is heavily represented in Street Photography and the 1980s seem to have an extra spell for photo series. This time we gain insight in New York’s Chinatown
“Robert Glick , better known as Bud, believes, “When we do documentary photography, we establish a permanent bond with those we photograph and the community in which we work.” In the early 1980s, Glick was working as a photographer for the New York Chinatown History Project, which is now the Museum of Chinese in America. The goal of his work was to document the community as it transformed from an primarily older, male population to a generation of young families due to rapidly expanding immigration. Laws that had stifled the influx of Chinese families, starting as early as 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act, had been lessened but did not allow large-scale immigration until 1965.”
3Glimpses of a Lost World Through Early Chinese Photography
Again a topic about chinese photography, but this time it focuses on historic images that have been taken as early as the 1870s.
Two men clad in leather and fur stand side by side with their legs wide and firmly planted on the ground, next to a Bactrian camel. All three stare straight at the camera. You meet their gaze, transcending time and place.
The world has changed so fast of late. We forget it was only about 150 years ago that photographers started to capture images, such as of these two tough and weathered men, traveling the Silk Road with a rather cheerful-looking, two-humped camel. You can start to imagine the trials and tribulations they must have faced carrying goods from perhaps as far from China as the Mediterranean.
4Martin Parr’s outstanding contribution to photography
Martin Parr is one of most recognized color Street Photographers today. He was awarded for his lifetime work at the Sony World Photography Awards. The Article features his most famous images that earned him that title.
Martin Parr is the winner of the outstanding contribution to photography prize at the 2017 Sony World Photography awards. Parr is being recognised for the impact he has had over more than 40 years both on photography as a medium, and on photographers. A special presentation of his work will be shown at Somerset House in London as part of the annual Sony World Photography Awards exhibition
5Imperfect is often perfect
by Rohit Vohra
We often search for the “perfect” image. Instead of just clicking right away to capture the moment we brood over little details that aren’t aligned as we want them to be. But are these little imperfections not what defines life?
A good photograph is the one that has an emotional connect with the viewer, whether it brings a smile, makes you cry, sad or just makes you think. The purpose of a photograph is to create a memory, to steal a moment in time, a moment that you connect with. My emotional connect with a photograph might be different than yours and hence the variable of what makes a good photograph.
With any creative medium and specially photography, there is a tendency to strive for perfection. While this can be good, but this desire for perfection can choke creativity.
Sometimes, you just can’t have it all, remember its better to capture the right moment with wrong settings, rather than wrong moment with right settings.
6What are the Best Street Photography Camera Settings and Why
A basic article recommended for everyone who just starts with photography or who wants to get a more in-depth knowledge how the auto modes work. It covers essentials like the exposure triangle in a very easy but nonetheless informative way, but also shows the advantages of different focus techniques.
Now, before getting into this, let’s get something straight. If you are doing something in your street photography and it works for you, then by all means, you’ve found the settings that fit you best and you probably want to stick with them. What I am presenting here are the tried and true ways that not only past photographers used, but most street photographers prefer today. But it’s not magic by any means. With that being said, let’s start with focusing on street photography.
