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‘Why street photography?’ is the most commonly asked question I get after taking someone’s picture. In this essay, a piece by Alain De Botton from his School Of Life answers this completely.
Doll in Backpack, New York, 2025 is one of 17 images shown at Photo London in 2025 as part of the ‘48 hours in New York’ project by Robert Watson. This essay discusses the process during and after the taking of the picture and what you DON’T see when you press the shutter.
NYC Homeless Man, New York, 2025 is one of 17 images shown at Photo London in 2025 as part of the ‘48 hours in New York’ project by Robert Watson. This essay explains my thoughts on whether a picture should be taken or not.
These essays on specific street photographs of mine may be an annoyance to those who are more eloquent with words than I am. I am a photographer, not a writer. The physical act of shooting a scene and bringing it to life in the darkroom is my obsession.
Blackpool is somewhere I have a photography obsession. Street photography here is very hard indeed. What I mean by that is it’s hard to take a meaningful image, not that it’s hard to take a picture. Anyone can do that anywhere.