Street Art

Street art is any art developed in public spaces that is, "in the streets". Street photography is an approach to photography rather than a location, although the streets are the usual place that it happens.

Street photographers are optimists, for them the glass is always half full. They go out on a photo shoot with no plan in mind secure in the knowledge that this wide world of ours will provide. A subject, a situation, a scene will present itself all they have to have is the presence of mind to capture it when it does. Street Art provides an opportunity for expression, for individual creative flair, it is quintessentially about naughty behaviour and is highly addictive to follow. One artist will develop over time, have an altercation with another individual or get caught by the police. They will change their style of work to evade capture, develop new skills and perfect new techniques.

Street photographers see the usual, the every day with fresh eyes. The reflection in a rain puddle, the colors in a crowd, the balance of a negative space. Their minds are open to all the stimuli that they see and they curse the days when they leave their camera at home.