Comments on: Street Photography in Saint-Denis

By: Jeff Chane-Mouye

Jeff Chane-Mouye — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:09:31 +0000

Non touristy places are more difficult to photograph and you quickly draw attention with your camera. If you add over this some ethnies who are reluctant to be Photographed, you face a really difficult situation for street photography…
The comorians kid ‘s one what shot from the hip. Its good to master the 28mm… The other one you mentioned is just fishing. I’m starting again to do some light/shadow… Hellllpppp! Kidding…

By: John Harper

John Harper — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:56:19 +0000

Much more difficult to shoot Street in a non-tourist city. To begin with there’s no real excuse to be walking around with a camera. People are suspicious. Also in the COVID era there won’t be many tourists in those touristy cities, so we’re facing a similar problem either way. For me there’s little difference between Bristol or Bath, if anything Bristol is somewhat easier, only because it’s a little busier with ‘normal’ citizens going about their lives. You’ll see in my next blog. Anyway, having said that looks as though you’re still producing the goods: The girl with the mannequins and the boys with their mother really are fabulous photographs.

By: Jeff Chane-Mouye

Jeff Chane-Mouye — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:03:16 +0000

In reply to John Wilson.

The most difficult thing to me here on the island is the different cultures of the inhabitants. Its a gift as well as you have very different ethnies. But man, they are very suspicious when you have a camera in your hand. Sometimes they have small business and they fear that you might be a policeman. It’s the same in some neighbourhoods in Marseille, Aix or Paris. But here on Réunion Island, it’s the normality. The city is colourful and full of this. That makes things difficult for street photography.
But I need to get use to that. Time is needed and I have to work differently for sure. Not sure that this Covid-19 thing has anything to do with it.
The population of Aix-en-Provence is very different when it comes to downtown where I used to spend a lot of time. Lot of tourists and very few of the ethnies I’am dealing with on Réunion. Some neighbourhoods as I said, have the same feeling as reunion island, but I knew that it was very difficult to make street photography overthere and I avoided theses places. Here on the island I can’t avoid these places otherwise I would need to give up on street photography…

By: John Wilson

John Wilson — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:34:45 +0000

How much of the inaction can you say is caused by virus and people still Leary about socializing and is the your new normal? Would Aix be different also because of virus?