POST 3: Why street photography ?

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Questioning a person's point of view of something is sometimes harsh. One may enjoy a different hobby than another but why even ask for reasons on why they are so different ? One has a different perspective than the other, isn't that enough?


So why street photography? There are so many reasons why street photography is unique, why many people prefer this type of photography. here are a few reasons :

• Street photography is Unplanned
• Street photography may or may not involve people
• Street photography doesn’t always have to have a purpose, but each image must aim to say something.

This is from an article about what is street photography, and it also stated why many people enjoy this. To read the article and learn more, click here .

(c) Kai Wong

Now, many people may seem to think black and white when they hear about street photography. It maybe the cause of the strong effect of the colors. But street photographs can be in color, it doesn't have to be black and white.

For a street photographers perspective about "why street photography" , Eric Kim has answered a few. He has 3 question that his teacher taught him and it was called the "3 why principle". as Shown below in BOLD text are his 3 why questions and below each questions in italic are his answers.

1. Why did I take photographs?
"Becaus I enjoyed it" 

2. Why did i enjoy taking photographs?
"Because it forced me to get off the computer, out of the house, and to capture “the beauty in the mundane”. "

3.Why did I strive to capture “the beauty in the mundane”?
" To have others appreciate the small things in their everyday life "

He was very passionate about street photography and also looked for the answer to the question "why street photography?" . Here is the full article about Eric Kim's "why do we shoot street photography?" which includes the 3 why princple.

(c)rdeguzman

Summarizing every information that has been given, It is still hard to answer the question "why street photography?". To some, it has already been answered but to to others who has yet to find the answer, maybe it can only be found when one has looked deeply into the art of street photography. Street photography doesn't have rules or a lot of processing, it is simply Street photographs. The reason why one should go with street photography is maybe as simple as it is satisfying to the one's eyes.