101 - Chanel Windows / Cut glass Light

I became immersed in street photography for a couple of years between 2011 and 2013. I stumbled into it, clueless, and took a crash course, in a kind of street university on Flickr.

I wrote this on my blog in 2013:

“Get closer” is a mantric phrase for street photographers. It  brings to mind the slam in your face, flash closeness of Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden. But there can also be a gentler closeness. The three to four feet kind. One more suggestive of a tacit intimacy. It’s a mirage of intimacy that’s almost tangible.

Everyone and everything is just out of reach, connected by the filaments of a ragtail spiders web of common humanity and the seduction of flashy merchandising.

Although shopping is an absorbing pastime (even a thrill), it’s rarely venerated. Shops seem to represent slavery to greed, waste and homogeneity. The great cathedrals of consumption.

But I love the dazzle of the marketplace. It’s like a crazy festival where people are caught together in the relative intimacy of some sideshow of shared experience.