What Street Photography Is To Me

I was looking on the internet on "what is street photography" but I soon found out this was useless, as there are so many different opinions and everyone you end up looking at says something different. Eric Kim has also mentioned this on his blog.

http://erickimphotography.com/blog/about/what-is-street-photography/

So I thought I would just mention what I think street photography is. When people say its not always about capturing activity on the street and portraying the urban environment, I disagree. For me thats exactly what street photography is all about. When i'm out taking photos I am always looking for the grimmest places and situations. I think this is because of the modern world filling the streets with rubbish, chewing gum and dog muck. Because of people not caring what there actions are in comparison to the way people might have behaved in the earlier days. I think of what the streets use to look like in pictures from the 1900s. When the streets seemed elegant with members of the public making sure they were looking there best when they went out to the market, people used bikes as transport and genially the streets seemed a lot less dirty and polluted. But today the streets have a whole new look and it's because of the way we have made them. So by taking photos of the raw grime in the streets I think it shows a contrast on how there is a change in human behaviour over time and is not always a good thing in the bigger picture.

The pictures are from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2173872/Edwardian-street-style-Astonishing-amateur-images-capture-fashion-women-London-Paris-century-ago.html 

I have mentioned the 1900s because I really enjoyed the program Mr Selfridge. It was really interesting how he wanted to change the way people shopped and the entire program just made oxford street and London in general just look really classy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLborDbtx3M