Street Photography - Joel Meyerowitz / Tintin Törncrantz (Thu 09 Jun 2016)

arms and hands - White Rabbit Gallery / Chippendale (Sun 29 Jun 2016)

Joel Meyerowitz on Street Photography:

[street photography is] an arms-length contact with somebody

via Spain : Miss Maier by Tintin Törncrantz by Tintin Törncrantz.

On Caring - I Wrote This for You (Mon 02 Nov 2015)

For a second, the wind blew so hard - Wind in the Willows - Qingpu (Wed Oct 2004)

I Wrote This for You on Caring:

For a second, the wind blew so hard [..] and you had the only hand I wanted to touch.

via The In-between Things by I Wrote This for You (Iain S. Thomas).

you had the only hand I wanted to touch - St George Private Hospital (Mon 29 Jun 2009)

On Hope, Healing and the Future - Doug Miller (Sun 11 Oct 2009)

Hands - Janice and Joanne / Ashfield (Sun 15 Mar 2015)
Doug Miller (*) writes On Hope (*):

Hope waits. Ready for us to reach out and grasp its firm hand. [..] There is hope and healing and a future no matter what our circumstances.

via A Message To The Broken (*) by Doug Miller (*).

On Subtlety and Meaning - Colin / Exile Lifestyle (Wed 19 Nov 2014)

Untitled - Tour of Great Britain / London (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
Colin (*) writes with brilliant clarity and subtlety on Meaning (*):

the most meaningful bits have also been the most subtle.

via Subtlety (*) by Exile Lifestyle (*).

On Street Photography - Haris P / Eric Kim (Sun 23 Feb 2014)

Street Portrait - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)
Haris P (*) writes On Street Photography (*):

[..] tips I would give street photographers would be the following:

1. Search for the light (*),


2. Search for the place (*),


3. Search for the character(s) (*),


4. Wait for the moment (*)..

And if you find all these things– don’t be satisfied with mediocrity.

Not-ordinary photos are nice but not enough. Extra-ordinary (*) photos are your target.

via Photographs are Everywhere: The Extra-Ordinary Street Photography of Haris P (Xaris P) (*) by Eric Kim (*).

On Suspense - Anton Corbijn / moreintelligentlife (Fri 14 Mar 2014)

Street Portrait - Barcelona (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
Anton Corbijn (*) writes On Photography (*):

I like the tension of not knowing exactly what you have.

via THE TRI-X FACTOR (*) by INTELLIGENT LIFE (*).

Found this photo amongst the ones I shot that day (*).

On Spontaneity and Luck - Philip-Lorca DiCorcia (Feb 2014)

Street Portrait (Hands) - Atochia / Madrid (Fri 09 Aug 2013)
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia (*) on Spontaneity, Luck (*) in Photography (*:

I am very conscious of taking an image and that does take some of the spontaneity out of it. Where the spontaneity comes back in is that I always leave room for luck (*) - the random occurrence that you can’t make happen. There is always an element of chance.

via Arts Preview: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia, The Hepworth Wakefield to June 1 (*) at the yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk (*).

On Photography - Mark Cohen / Eric Kim Blog (Mon 17 Feb 2014)

Street Portrait - Harris Street / Haymarket (Tue 25 Feb 2014)
Untitled - Dibbs Street / Alexandria (Jan 2014)
Abstract - Pitt Street / Redfern (Fri 21 Feb 2014)
Mark Cohen (*) on Photography (*):

When you feel like you’re making pictures - the most important is to make new pictures. The pictures you already took - you already took those pictures. My main drive is to do something new - to make some new kind of picture.

via 14 Lessons Mark Cohen Has Taught Me About Street Photography (*) by Eric Kim (*).

On Gestures - Jorg Colberg / Conscientious Photography Magazine (Tue 28 Jan 2014)

Untitled - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)
Jorg Colberg (*) writes On Gestures (*) and Photography (*):

Gestures (*), the way people use their hands (*) and facial expressions (*), are very hard to deal with photographically.

One of the complications appears to be that the moment we are made to look at a gesture (*), frozen in a photograph, we have to pay attention to something we usually do not think about.

And then it gets weird very quickly.

via Corinna Sauer: Home Story (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).

Untitled - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)

On Training and Discipline - Siegfried Hansen / Eric Kim Street Photography (Wed 18 Dec 2013)

Untitled - Pitt Street / Sydney (Wed 18 Dec 2013)
Siegfried Hansen (*) writes On Traininng (*) and Discipline (*):

There are many things you learn by training (*) and discipline (*), but overall you should internalize both theory (*) and technique (*) to a point that you can fully concentrate (*) on the moment when taking pictures. I navigate through [..] my hometown, almost blindly (*) on certain routes, focusing on things that are happening around me. It’s all coincidental, nothing is preset.

via Capturing Harmony on the Streets through Graphical Images: Interview with Siegfried Hansen (*) by Eric Kim (*).


Untitled (Detail) - Pitt Street / Sydney (Wed 18 Dec 2013)

On Photography, Context and Meaning - Jorg Colberg / (Sun 15 Dec 2013)

Untitled - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)
Jorg Colberg (*) writes On Photography (*), Context (*) and Meaning (*):

Photographs need to be seen with context in mind. Many photographs are created with a very specific context in mind [..] But context can also be an anchor that prevents access. [..] [some] speak directly to us; many of them escape their context and talk of the human condition [..] these photographs show what happens when a master photographer sets up her or his camera: The results will stand the test of time and, inevitably, they will want to break out of whatever context they might have found themselves originally in.

via A few thoughts on Lewis Hine (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).

Hands (Detail) - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)

Street Portraits (2 of 4) - Barcelona (Mon 05 Aug 2013)

Street Portrait (Hands) - Barcelona (Mon 05 Aug 2013)

The Speaker - Speakers Corner / Hyde Park / London (Sun 16 Aug 2013)

The Speaker - Speakers Corner (*) / Hyde Park / London (Sun 18 Aug 2013)
His message did not speak to the throbbing crowd and there was lots of heckling. A stunningly well dressed lady, even threw a small piece of rolled up paper at him. At least no one threw their shoe at him. I felt like I was in a market place somewhere in the Middle East. It was surreal as the sunset creating an amazing backdrop to this vibrant scene. Love tha hands.

Getting Started - Rebecca Norris Webb / fotografiska (Tue 16 Apr 2013)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Apr 2013)
Rebecca Norris Webb (*) talks On Getting Started (*):

Maybe not knowing why is a good place to start.

via 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 (*).

On Street Photography - Ken Johnson / NYT (Fri 15 Mar 2013)

Hand - George Street / Sydney (Thu 14 Mar 2013)
Ken Johnson (*) writes on Street Photography (*):

The camera gazes at all with the same equanimity and finds each person, in his or her own way, dignified, lovable and even beautiful. Walking, the most democratic form of transportation, lends itself to metaphor: we walk into the future, we walk the line, we walk the walk.

via Walking the Walk, in a Rhapsodic New York Ballet / ‘Street,’ at the Metropolitan Museum (*) by Ken Johnson (*).

Hand - George Street / Sydney (Tue 12 Mar 2013)

Hand - George Street / Sydney (Tue 12 Mar 2013)

Hands and Gestures (2 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Hands and Gestures (2 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
And the tables to my right.

Hands and Gestures (1 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Hands and Gestures (1 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
On the table to my left.

Smile #5 - Circle Line Ferry / Hudson River / New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

Smile #5 - Circle Line Ferry / Hudson River / New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)


Details #1, #2 (Hands) & #3 - Circle Line Ferry / Hudson River / New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)
I can clearly remember this day and standing at the front of the Ferry as we travelled south along the Hudson River back towards where we had started our journey almost three hours earlier.

A beautiful summers day, in an amazing City - we had travelled from all parts of the planet to share this experience. Three hours together and then we would part, never to meet again. But I have a feeling the photos we have, unite us all and our feelings and emotions of a shared experience.

I remember these moments so clearly, though I had not really looked closely at these photos (*) since I have been back.

This one is my favourite and it has a lot going on (*), as the tiny details above show. It seems to be have a tenderness and a sense of awe about it - strengthened if looked at as a series of photos (*) which bonds everyone together. I would dearly love to give prints to the people in the photos (I was able to do this once in Shanghai, a story for another day).

I am now reminded of this post (*) and it is in moments like this that I am glad to have had this blog to scratch out my thoughts in words (even if they don't really make too much sense at times) and mostly now through my photos (maybe I am just happy, like the Girl above, just hoping for someone to look at my photos - even if it is just me).

It also makes me realise how lucky I have been to be able to do the things I have done.