On Street Photography - Alex Webb (Wed 25 Jun 2014)

Untitled - Oxford Street / London (Sun 18 Aug 2013)
Alex Webb (*) writes On Photography (*):

I'm a street photographer (*) at heart, so I approached Rochester (*) [the subject (*) - see HCB post (*) specifically] the same way I often approach somewhere I'm shooting, [..] Walking, meandering, allowing my camera and experiences (*) to guide me.

via Last days of Kodak town: the decline and fall of the city photography built (*) by Dave Stelfox (*).

On Photography - Being Uncomfortable - Alex Webb / LA Times Thu 13 (Jun 2013)

Fish - Seoul / South Korea (Mon 10 Sep 2012)
Alex Webb (*) writes On Photogrpahy (*):

I needed to be a little uncomfortable to photograph well.

via reFramed: In conversation with Alex Webb (*) by Barbara Davidson (*).

Could say the same thing about my paddling.

On Photography - Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb (Tue 16 Apr 2013)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Apr 2013)
Rebecca Norris Webb advises:

Learn to listen to your photographs. They are often wiser than you are.

While Alex Webb (*) advises:

Follow your passion (*). You should pursue photography (*) because it is something you love - that you absolutely need to do. The rewards from photography - recognition, occasional remuneration - are so fleeting that it makes no sense to pursue photography (*) except as a labor of love.

5 frågor till: Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb (*) by fotografiska (*).

On Photography - Understanding - Alex Webb / americanphotomag.com (16 Dec 2011)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Apr 2013)
Alex Webb (*) talks On Photography (*):

I feel that on some level I photograph to understand (*) what it is and why it is I'm photographing. It's a process of understanding (*).

via Books of the Year: Alex Webb's "The Suffering of Light" (*) by Stan Horaczek (*).

OC - Oh See! - Cnr Nathan Road and Public Square St / Hong Kong (Tue 03 Jul 2012)

OC - Oh See! - Cnr Nathan Road and Public Square St / Hong Kong (Tue 03 Jul 2012)
Bright shafts of light randomly flooded the canyon like streets of Hong Kong.

I almost instinctively responded to this by trying to capture the passing traffic (cars, trucks, bikes and people) as they emerged out of the shadows.

An Alex Webb (*) book - The Suffering of Light (*) - I recently bought from Amazon at Eric Kim's (*) suggestion (*) certainly helped me to see this way for the first time.

Alex on opportunity in photography:

“Luck – or perhaps serendipity – plays a big role… But you never know what is going to happen. And what is most exciting is when the utterly unexpected happens, and you manage to be there at the right place at the right time – and push the shutter at the right moment. Most of the time it doesn’t work out that way. This kind of photography is 99.9% about failure."

Detail - OC - Oh See! - Cnr Nathan Road and Public Square St / Hong Kong (Tue 03 Jul 2012)