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I've been out of this this loop since last August. Not because of any critical remarks to my previous posts, just because I've been involved in other things than PN and Street Photography. Primarily a 2-month long local Photo Exhibition (and months of NL-> EN translation beforehand) and ongoing (amateur) portrait photography on locations. So I haven't done much Street Photography at all. I've enjoyed catching up with recent Random Street photos in this thread and I hope to contribute more and to the forum in the future.

 

I fully accept that my previous post on 'the best street photographers having a purpose' - though well intended- was wholly inappropriate in a 'Random Street Photography' thread. So I apologize to anyone who still remembers the post and feels that it was inappropriate. At the time, I had no intention whatsoever to 'devalue' any previous random photos or to recommend any 'standards'.

 

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Why do old people walk around with rictus grins or canine snarls?

Similar reasons young people do?

 

Followup question: Why are photographers drawn to capturing them?

 

I suppose my answer is we capture the world as it is. It is not all about folks making daisy chains in fields of yellow, or, just folks with rictus grins old or young.

 

Thinking yellow.

 

 

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"Responsibility and agency. We choose both what we capture and what we share." Sam

 

Just curious whos responsibility and agency? The individual photographer or the current societal norms and beliefs? Or, are we talking about the individual photographers cultural beliefs and morals. Perhaps there is a greater morality and responsibility which we should adhere to...written into our souls by a divinity.

 

Curious where your thoughts are coming from and their meaning.

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Just curious whos responsibility and agency?

Mine, when I choose what to shoot and share. Yours, when you do. Society when its individuals band together to make decisions and take actions. And each of us to each other ... to the extent we care, and to ourselves. I’ll leave “divinity” to the myth-makers while I go out to make pictures. :rolleyes:

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Good thoughts, Sam. But, do you think there are secret/sacred areas of humanity where no photographer should trespass. Or, maybe they do not exist other than individuals ethnical/moralistic standards. Do you think that all of humanity should should be open and questioned by the photographer?
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do you think there are secret/sacred areas of humanity where no photographer should trespass

No.

 

Though there might be areas I wouldn’t trespass for one reason or another in a given situation. I’ve been just as happy to keep my finger off the shutter at some moments as to press it down at others.

 

What I try to do is avoid habits. And, while a good cliché strikes my fancy now and then, I try to indulge sparingly.

Do you think that all of humanity should should be open and questioned by the photographer?

On this question, I wouldn’t speak for “the photographer.” Speaking for myself, I decide or am led to what I shoot by my own humanity and don’t typically like all or nothing questions or thinking in universals.

 

Photographers seem sometimes to question and sometimes to answer.

 

Many photographers apply limits. And probably even the most “free” photographers limit themselves in some way or another, consciously or not.

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