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News: New Forum for People and Street Pictures of strangers in the Style of Europeans

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This non-searchble private forum is an attempt to support the continuation of freedom for expression outside the north American continent as a salutation and homage to the great European Photographers who established the Art of Street Photography of strangers and who's works are treasured as part of our civilization. As an introduction, you might enjoy this.

Because the pictures will be made under infinite sets of locations and conditions, it's beyond the scope of OPF to authorize each of these pictures for ethics or legalities. The photographer must take on responsibility of doing work in a fashion that's acceptable locally. OPF does not vet or screen these photographs more than any other picture shown in OPF, except we'll respond to particular violations of the TOS if this is made known to us.

It's the hope that this forum will encourage new work and be an arena for creative discussion on this artistic expression.

Asher
 
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Chris Calohan

Well-known member
Stealing a Moment

Everytime I shoot what I think is "street" people photography, I think of myself as stealing someone else's private moment and as such, I should give it some measure of reverence. This guy was very stealthy as he moved in and around crowded street venues, shooting at will. Some of his shots were quite good.

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Stealing a Moment: Chris Calohan​
 

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Asher, there are street ( ? )photographers besides European and/or North American. I know of one resides in a desert and says he does street photography. Don't know what Europeans or North Americans would call some of his genre of work..religious photography?

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Is he the one? She asked my guide. Yes, the dark one he replied. No, she said, the lonely traveler.
That's the moment I clicked. Along a street.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Asher, there are street ( ? )photographers besides European and/or North American. I know of one resides in a desert and says he does street photography. Don't know what Europeans or North Americans would call some of his genre of work..religious photography?

Ahah! You are puzzled by the apparent simple narrowness of the thread definition? Well, it has nothing to do with race or type of people photographed or what they believe in. Rather, this section is an attempt to have a zone that's non-searchable by Google et al so that folk in Europe aren't large targets for anger or lawsuit by someone photographed. The idea is that folk in Europe can post photographs here in relative privacy and, to that extent, have some of the advantages of freedom of expression that we enjoy in the North American continent.

The same TOS limitations of OPF apply: no hints of child pornography and no humiliation of others.

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Fahim,

I adore the charm and preciousness of a human being you've captured. Delightful and well done!

Here, she knew what you were doing and a bond was formed as is your custom in so many street shots you take. So there's no concern that she might object at some time in the future. Still, this picture also belongs here! This is, after all, in the path of the European photographers by intimacy and craft although that was not the main intent of this new section; undeniably it works here too! It could have been posted in the regular threads on Portraits in Available light, Still Photography and the like, but it's welcome here for its quality.


Asher
 

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Thanks Asher for the comments and the clarification. Just one more, and I won;t be seen here!! :)

He looked at me. I looked at him. You the one?, he asked. Yes, I said.
Where's the camera then?, he was puzzled. I showed him. And that is your lens?, this said with disgust.

One disdainful glance and he crawled that way. One look back. Get yourself a real camera, he said.
I walked the other way.

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Tom dinning

Registrant*
Us Aussies have been doing a fair bit of this for a while as well, Asher. We have our own style and palette to work from. My Old Man taled of the many street photographers he knew when he was young. They would post their images in the shop windows in the arcades so people could view them and purchase a copy if they so desired. these images are the only record of some of my ancestors and the ordinary bloke in the street.



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Martin Stephens

New member
A good image on this page is the smoking man on train. There is enough content and interest to hold a view for a good long look at the photo. There is the subject matter to be scanned and understood, and there is a somewhat pensive mood of the man to consider. It's a fine moment that is capture with enough technique and style to make a worthwhile image. Bravo!

Much of the rest is kinetic and unorganized and without enduring interest. They might all be accidental shutter releases.
 
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