Comments on: My definition of Street Photography #2 : Distortion of the reality. https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/ Straight, candid, unposed Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: My street Photography definition # 3 : About manipulation of the image. - Jeff CHANE-MOUYE PHOTOGRAPHY https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2974 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:33:10 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2974 […] mon précédent Blog, je parlais de Distorsion de la réalité. Cette distorsion apparaît dans l’interprétation que l’on donne à la scène se […]

]]> By: hpchavaz https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2872 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 06:25:51 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2872 In reply to Jeff Chane-Mouye.

Hi Jeff, I totally agree. The Street Photographer doesn’t care about telling the Truth. He.is nterested by showing his own vision.

]]> By: Jeff Chane-Mouye https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2871 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:25:27 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2871 In reply to hpchavaz.

Good point HP, but the most important thing for me is to be objective with what we are photographying. Photojournalists and documentary photographs have an ethic and need to bring the absolute truth. The Street Photographer on the other side, shows his vision of the world and doesn’t care about telling the truth. Of course we can also record the truth, but personnaly speaking, I’m more interested by telling my own stories.

]]> By: hpchavaz https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2869 Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:10:42 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2869 A way to think about the question, is, as you mentioned, thinking about the intent and the subject. Photojournalism is about an event, Documentary photography is more about a social phenomenon. Street photography is about the street as it is lived.
When the social phenomenon gives rise to an event that connects its actors in the public space, there is an inevitable overlap.

]]> By: Jeff Chane-Mouye https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2864 Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:14:24 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2864 In reply to John Harper.

Life reporter has a connotation of reporting things like a journalist.the street photographer is polymorphous. Depends on how you operate on the streets. Some people really document in their way the streets. Some others (like me) like to create à New reality with the given scenery. I think that there is no right or wrong. That’s the beauty of street

]]> By: John Harper https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2863 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:08:10 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2863 In reply to Jeff Chane-Mouye.

Good point, subjectivity and objectivity are likely to be the separating factors.
Haha, no good telling me to look at “Tourists in the City”, you know that I know your photographs almost as well as you do :-)) True, that series is Street Photography, not Documentary.
I can’t remenber now who said it (I’m crap with this stuff), but I thought this was an interesting question posed by someone recently – “Sould it be either Street Photographer or Life Reporter?”

]]> By: Jeff Chane-Mouye https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2862 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:24:57 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2862 In reply to John+Harper.

You’re right about Robert Capa. This article was written a while ago and the form was different when I named him. He’s definitely a photojournalist and define the war genre. I also read that he lost all his money gambling.
SP could be assimilate to documentary if they were not this search for objectivity. This point is crucial in documentary photography. Sometimes our street shots could be in this category but speaking of my way of photographying, I think it’s more an interpretation of what is happening in front of me. Take a look at the series I called “Tourists in the city”. It could be documentation of this kind of population during summertime. It is in a certain way, but the way I photograph and edit my work, is more related to SP. But yes the lines between the genres are blurred.

]]> By: John+Harper https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/my-definition-of-street-photography-2-distorsion-of-the-reality/#comment-2861 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:58:29 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=2844#comment-2861 Excellent article Jeff, accompanying images too.
You’ve certainly set yourself s tough task with the definition of Street Photography. Like many of my own photos that never see the light of day, the lines between Documentary and Street, are blurred! Street can be more about surrealism, leaving the viewer to decide what’s going on, but often it’s simply documented. That said I suppose there’s more room for creativity with Street because it’s not crucial to record the absolute facts.
Photojournalism is totally different I’d say, it is defined by the very nature of the images produced. Robert Capa wouldn’t spring to mind as a Street Photographer. In my opinion he was a Photojournalist and defined that genre. He was a gambler, someone once said that he was a poker player who took photos on the side. To carry out the kind of work he did I suppose you’d need to be a gambler, of course it cost him his life eventually. Maybe he could be the example that sets the genres apart?

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