Street photography is conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters at random incidents within public places. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic. Framing and timing can be key aspects of the craft with the aim of some street photography being to create images at a decisive or poignant moment. Street photography can focus on people and their photography behavior in public, thereby also recording people’s history. This motivation entails having to navigate or negotiate changing expectations and laws of privacy, security and property. Chance plays a very significant role in street photography. You can fight chance, tolerate it or embrace it. To some extent, all photographs are the result of chance.

“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough.”                                                                                                                      –Robert Capa

“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know withe intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oops! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.                                                     –Henri Cartier-Bresson

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