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Added to my LensCulture site, "Pier and Ocean 2020-21"
https://www.lensculture.com/streetmax?modal=project-1609655
A selection of images taken on the North Norfolk coast, UK. testing the graphic legibility of figures as they diminish in size across flat open space, away from the constraints of the built environment.
With this post I want to wish a happy new year to all the photographers here on strkng. May the new year bring you many photographic and personal satisfactions.
This year I discovered this platform and I enjoyed to share my work with all the community. I think we need spaces like this, because also photography is menaced under the umbrella of politically correct and the limitations to freedom, more and more stringent in any part of the world.
We the photographers are the witness of our time and we have a mission: to show the world as it is.
travelling back in time. just stumbled upon this series of shots taken in June 2010 in New York City…
"Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
—James Thurber
The Street Photography that I love.
Raw. Unposed. Instinctive.
What i find on the streets.
These photographs made during a day in downtown. Completely immersed in the city.
Imperfect photography influenced by the mindset.
A way of learning about myself and the others.
Delighted to be part of the "Open Theme" juried exhibition open now at Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. Curated by Carl Corey.
In constant visual provocation inside and outside myself.
A permanent condition of my being that leads me to constant communication between the internal and external world.
Doing street photography is part of me in every moment.
Far. Close. In a sort of justified distancing depending only on the photographic action required.
Expressions and gestures. The position of bodies in space.
The construction of the frame that passes through instants.
Sometimes the simplest of thematic ideas present themselves. We may enjoy many warm and sunny days throughout the year in Rome, Italy, but when it does rain here, it really pours; rarely does it merely drizzle. (Fun fact: annual rainfall in the eternal city actually exceeds that of London.) When the heavens opened recently on a mild autumn day, the city was instantly transformed: wet streets, gleaming San Pietrini cobblestones, umbrellas everywhere, and a sudden quickening of pace by Romans and tourists caught out by the storm. The Ricoh GR II doesn’t love wet weather, but armed with an umbrella and a lens hood, I managed just fine. Here are some of my favourite shots from that day.
This year I pushed my limits. Especially in the places where I go to photograph.
A different awareness of the city and how I live it contributes. My cameras are anonymous and not flashy. My approach is careful and respectful. I am not crazy and I know where I enter, in what context, what generates the sight of someone who sees himself as a foreigner even if set. My way of walking is that of a chilango, that is, of an inhabitant of Mexico City.
For twelve years here and doing my street photography every day. Although seeing the images someone doesn’t recognize certain environments as dangerous I can assure you that not everyone can afford to go where I go. So why I go in certain, tough places? It is because certain places are able to give me what I am looking for: a raw and real portrait of the Mexican culture.
I believe that Street Photography can’t be something made only where tourists go.
This is my profession and my mission.
StreetMax21 – A two page spread in this month’s Al-Tiba9 magazine.