I shoot photography in the streets and It has been like that since I own a camera; but I have never done street photography, I mean the real street photography. I like a pure humanistic approach and I usually make attempts to actually meet people, discover places and try to document that. The other approach I use to consider is to simply see city and streets as a landscape and try to get the beauty out of it. Inspired by some of the masters of the genre and a few guys active on flickr HCSP group, I decided to make an attempt to street photo. On a not so sunny Saturday morning, I took my Zeiss Ikon, a bunch of HP5+, a 35mm lens and got to some of the streets near Nanjing east road in Shanghai.
My first approach was simply to take distance with the subject, try to compose with the background, catch what the other don’t see. In order not to get engaged as usual in communication with people in the street, I plugged headset in my ear with pretty loud music (such as Dj. Rupture). That was pretty efficient and at least I had the feeling to enter in a different dynamic. This was a first and I strongly recommend it. I have posted here the selection from the three rolls of that morning. In my opinion I still have a long way to go but it was an interesting experiment, there should be some other to come, could it be another ever-lasting project ? Could be !