Taking Meaningful Candid Shots

Federico Alegría
5 min readJan 23, 2020

When people refer to candid photography as a thing, they tend to see it as a genre, but this is not exactly how candid works. Candid (in photography) must be seen as a feature, because it really refers to a way of approaching subjects. It’s not a genre. Documentary photography, photojournalism and street photography are the genres that perhaps benefit the most from candid approaches.

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