Street Roundup Wk. 28

by Oliver Krumes

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Since it was launched in 2010, social media platform Instagram has become one of the most popular places to upload and share travel photos.

Hong Kong-based photographer Edward Barnieh has over 175,000 followers on Instagram.

He gives the BBC Travel Show’s Carmen Roberts a tour of the back streets of Hong Kong and gives her some tips on taking travel photographs.

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Morse code creator Samuel F.B. Morse made long-distance chats almost instantaneous with his co-invention of the telegraph, which he patentedin 1847. While he’s best known for revolutionizing telecommunications, Morse spent most of his career working as an artist—and he had a major influence on the future of that field, too, by introducing photography to the United States. Selfies, Instagram, and the ability to show off your vacation photos while you’re still at the beach can all be traced back to Morse’s vision.

Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1791, Morse was the eldest son of Jedidiah Morse, America’s leading geographer at the time. Samuel attended Yale College, where he pursued courses in religion, mathematics, and the emerging field of electromagnetism.

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Fresh, fast, adaptable and affordable. More and more photographers, including photojournalist Jo Metson Scott and social documentarian Martin Parr, are turning to newsprint.

During summer 2015, you couldn’t open a paper without seeing photographs of the Syrian refugee crisis – the worst such crisis since the Second World War.

The photographs are heart-wrenching, showing rickety rafts piled high with men, women and children, desperate to make their way across the sea to Europe; or these travelers arriving on Greek beaches, drenched, tearful, and exhausted. Depending on the publication, the articles accompanying the pictures ranged from empathetic to sensational.

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American photographer David Jay is known for his classical photography that wins hearts. This time he captured the photos of American soldiers who got injured during Iraq and Afghanistan war. He tried to show their life to common people via his photos. Due to this war, the soldiers suffered brutal injuries – some lost their legs or some their arms. David Jay named this photo series as The Unknown Soldier.

David told about the aftereffects of the war and the life afterward. In order to click these photos, David met many soldiers by visiting them at their homes or hospitals. David told that their 70% body part was affected and was not in work. Some got paralyzed and some became handicapped.

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Street photography can seem daunting. The idea of photographing strangers and intruding on their privacy might make you nervous, but this video by Eduardo Goye is full of tips for how to overcome this.

Goye is quick to point out that he’s never experienced aggression from anyone while shooting on the street, and in fact 99% of the time people are happy to have their picture taken if asked.

However, most of the video describes ways to capture candid photos where people aren’t aware of what’s going on.

You can create powerful images of strangers standing on the street on their phone. Just focus, compose, and wait for them to look up. They may give you a strange look, sure, but it could make the image pop. Snap the photo, and move on.

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Best-selling Author Steven Pressfield is educating others on how to break through creative roadblocks with his novel “The War of Art.” After reading this inspiring book, Photographer Sean Tucker decided to make an online video to share his new insights about dealing with creative mind blocks with the world. Tucker’s video focuses on the idea of overcoming personal resistance and overcoming negative internal monologues. By highlighting his own roadblocks and proposing solutions to counter-act them, Tucker is able to offer hope and encouragement to every photographer out there who is suffering from the inability to motivate themselves to get up and create.

The desire to create can be affected by many factors, including fear, perfectionism, overthinking, and “playing the victim.” Fear can manifest into a crippling condition which can stop many people from even trying to put their creative work out there. Whether it is the fear of failing or the fear of being found out to not know as much as others, this resistance can be the number one reason why people fail to try. One suggested way around this to turn negative self talk into a positive one is to realize that everyone has knowledge gaps and holes in their skill set. No one is perfect 100 percent of the time and that realization can help people to take control back of their creative lives.

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The images look like the street photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson – except, instead of using a Leica rangefinder as he did, Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson used a car.

Davidson has had a storied career. She won the feature-photography Pulitzer in 2011 for documenting gang violence while working at the Los Angeles Times, shared a staff Pulitzer in 2006 for the Dallas Morning News photo staff’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and that same year and again in 2013 she was Pictures of the Year International’s Newspaper Photographer of the Year.

So Volvo hired her to take photos with their car. Specifically, with the camera built into the new XC60 crossover’s City Safety system. Located in the windshield forward of the rear-view mirror, the camera detects objects or people in the roadway on behalf of the onboard computer that controls automatic emergency braking. Since the camera is normally gathering video data for a computer, not human eyes, the images it collects are in black and white and look kind of gritty – qualities not unlike the work of a long line of street photographers stretching from Weegee through Cartier-Bresson to many shooters working today.

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The Empress Market shopkeepers teased the stoic sabzi wala (vegetable vendor), encouraging him to smile for my camera. This was my first visit to Pakistan and all I wanted was to capture that one perfect shot. The sabzi wala raised his head and grinned. I snapped the image.

Street photography, for most of these Karachiite shopkeepers wasn’t a novelty. However, I visited numerous places on my trip where street photography was seen with awe, and curiosity. Even in Karachi, I drew attention walking around the city with a Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) camera and lens. I noticed people staring at me while I took my time composing an image, or when I worked with a subject on a pose. I have grown comfortable with this kind of attention. I’ve been to many countries with my camera, and Pakistan was the 30^th. During my travels, I have learned that being a foreign photographer means creating images as an outsider looking in.

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