Street Photography, A Reply

A friend on facebook, when seeing an album I put up of street photography, commented that it was ' really creepy'

Well, no it isn't. In fact it is anything but.

All our lives we walk through cities like zombies, asleep. Our eyes on the ground, headphones in our ears.

We spend life blocking out the beauty all around us.

The city is a vibrant, living organism.

And what is the city's energy made up of?

The people that live in it

So if you could capture some of that energy, that vibrancy - why wouldn't you?

So, yes, if photography is all about shooting fake , posed shots of your friends drunk on a night out, then yes, street photography is creepy.

But if taking photos is actually about capturing life and not just a dead image, well then I think it is pretty awesome.