3 Important Facts About Street Photography

Street Photography is simply recording life.

– Valérie Jardin

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.

– Robert Capa

I can’t photograph anything without a city. I’m definitely addicted to cities.

– Daidō Moriyama

Street photography has become quite popular in recent years, and I find it fascinating. Thanks to the Internet, we have access to endless streams of images that keep our craving for images constantly unsatisfied. And since this genre has become so popular, it seems important to talk a bit about three important facts that will help you understand what street photography is all about.

What street photography is not

First, let’s start by defining what is not street photography. Street photography is not about shooting pictures of random crowds or the social mayhem that happens within a landscape. Street photography is about looking for the aesthetics that happen within the ordinary daily life of society. People often comment that certain pictures aren’t street photography because they happened inside a store or place, but for me, capturing the beauty of society interacting inside a common place is just another layer of street photography.

Some people think street photography needs to happen inside urban venues — but as a Latin American photographer, I don’t limit myself to urbanism alone. Rural venues offer a…