What I Learned After 12 Years of Doing Street Photography

Here is a very personal approach to Street Photography in which I share some of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned after a decade of walking with a camera in my hand.

What is Street Photography?

That is definitely not an easy question to answer, but since I’m allowing myself to share my own approach, then things will be less hard to handle. First of all, this is not intended to be a definitive guide for street photography. Street photography is something that we as photographers embrace, it is more of an approach and a lifestyle, it is a way of seeing life, and it has nothing to do with rules and laws. Said that I must confess that these words here are just a reflection of a mixture of my personal thoughts and some enlightening ideas from photographers I admire and respect.

Each street photographer develops in time a personal concept that will answer to themselves “what is street photography?”. My own ideas and conclusions have been evolving, and after 10 years now, I have a somewhat definition of what it is for me to be a street photographer. I’m sure this concept and ideas will evolve in two or three decades from here on, and I don’t mind since that’s the beautiful thing about street photography, it is simply a lifestyle that defines us as human beings.