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i'm gonna continue this thread and post a couple more cause fuck it
looking at this next batch i also wonder where the line between "street photography" and just ordinary photography with people is. just semantics i guess...
art has purpose, one of the purposes of art for me is to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. (cliche fucking phrases, but language is all we've got to communicate) when you read great literature or watch legitimately good movies you end up leaving the experience knowing a little bit more about yourself. the artist has conveyed a little piece of them through whichever medium to show what their experiences are like, and thus broadening and expanding your own experiences. street photography to me is more akin to a movie or book than abstract or landscape photography. through capturing ordinary people in their moment to moment living you somehow get a better glimpse of what it means to be human than other forms of photography. through capturing downtrodden homeless people on the ground, or wheelchair bound individuals, or h&m bag carrying consumers, or influenza masked chinamen you gain infinitely more awareness & insight into humanity than any quasi-deep deserted beach/abstract type photography. add on to the fact that all art is inevitably a reaction to the time it was made. street photography captures that better than anything else. you can't take a street pic WITHOUT showing the elements & reverberations that make up our current time.
