Please have a look at this Jamie Windsor's video 'Why you SHOULDN'T do STREET PHOTOGRAPHY' and give it a thought.
So far street photography that includes human figures have never been my genre, and I guess it never will be. I have few times thought it could be something worth to learn, but then I need to ask myself why should I learn it? Am I really the right person who should document and tell the story of people seen on the streets?
And maybe it is better if I tell a different story. Besides, it is sort of a street photography as well, when there are no human figures seen in the image, only the street ;-)
Quick update: Video representing Fan Ho by The Art of Photography (Ted Forbes)
We have to feel empathy but over all respect for the persons we take pics of...
I discovered Fan Ho with the video, fantastic...
I have some homeless pictures, an intent to show that a foreign town is more than its famous monuments, it carries also the distress of part of its population... but I always talked to these people, gave them something on top of words and smile.
In Marroco kids wanted to be photographed in exchange of a coin, many adults too.
I often use the technic of shoot first and ask after, then shoot again. But the first shots are the best ones because people are natural. If they are not ok with it I erase.
Street photography is not my favorite anyhow... just ocasional.
Kiitos Sami!
Basically you have to have written permission by the persons in the photo to be on the safe side. That written permission can be revoked at any time and you then even have to destroy the original file! There's a whole industry of what in Germany we call "Abmahnanwalt", attormeys making money from finding photos violating data protection laws.
I don't want to risk this, so I have pulled all people photos/ made them private.
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