who here considers themselves a 'street photographer'?

When I 1st got back into photography in 06 & picked up my 1st rangefinder camera that was my idea, to be a street photographer. I joined flickr & found all the street photography groups asking to me to emulate our "hero street photographers" like Winogrand, Friedlander, HCB, list goes on & on.

I quickly learned I couldn't emulate any of those photographers & my photo's would hardly ever pass thru the administrators who would deem your photo worthy to wind up in the pool. I felt defeated & almost gave up. Then I started reading threads here. I learned quickly about the importance of individuality as being a photographer in the general since. I quit all of those groups that want me to shoot like someone else. I gotta shoot like me.

Bottom line is that some days, especially when the furniture market is in town I become a street photographer. Or perhaps the better definition is this. "I practice the art of photography."
 
Yes, I'd call myself a street photographer. But only because that's what life gives me these days. I'd prefer being a in-the-woods landscape photographer, but I live in the middle of a big city. So my everyday life is on the streets, not on the paths.
 
Jamie Pillers said:
Yes, I'd call myself a street photographer. But only because that's what life gives me these days. I'd prefer being a in-the-woods landscape photographer, but I live in the middle of a big city. So my everyday life is on the streets, not on the paths.
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PURRfectly put Jamie... I too Live in the Big City Fate
 
Sometimes I have assignments that require me to photograph people in public places including the street. But if I do not have a reason to photograph people, I simply do not bother them by engaging in "Street" photography...


Short answer, Hell No!
 
I just tell people that I'm a kid with cameras.

If I HAD to label myself as anything then it would be a Portrait Photographer for sure. I'm fascinated by street photography, moreso than portraiture (how ironic) but I'm incredibly bad at it and I'm not motivated enough to improve. Well, maybe some day.
 
i go from subject to subject. if it's fashion, it's fashion. but i haven't shot that in a while. portraiture once in a while, but that's not as exciting.

but i've found the most challenging thing is street. and ever since i moved to the city, it's been the most invigorating to shoot.
 
Yeah sure. I do a lot of street type photography, and I admire some of the street photography I encounter. So I'm a street photographer. I also do other types of photography, probably more often than I do street photography.
 
Definitely not. I do shoot 80% or more of my pictures on the streets, but it's still not street. And that's not because I don't like the label...
 
I photograph mostly on the street, but many would not consider me a street photographer. Street photography (as defined by the internet) is too narrow for my taste and needs. It's a genre tag that is unnecessary.
 
I might not like the connotation the label of "Street Photographer" has gotten recently. And I used to consider what I did "Street Photography". But now my focus is more on conceptual work... in the street.

But I have to admit... every now and again... I get the urge to go back to that place... shoot candids of people in Chinatown... and love it.
 
Yes, although I'm doing more urban landscape photography of late. It's hard to do street photography in suburbia. When in cities, however, street is mainly the kind of photography I like to do.
 
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