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  • Street Focus 65: Q&A and Street Challenge
    Street Focus 65: Q&A and Street Challenge
    This week my guest co-host is my good friend, photographer, author and founder of the the Out of Chicago conference, Chris Smith. Together we answer questions about printing, being invisible and B&W vs. Color.
    Who is Chris? Chris Smith is the founder of Out of Chicago Photography and the Out of Chicago Photography Conference. He is the author of The Photographer’s Guide to Chicago and host of the Out of Chicago Podcast. Chris specializes in photographing Chicago at night. By day, Chris is a high school physics teacher and lives with his wife and two kids in the Chicago Suburbs. Follow Out of Chicago at outofchicago.com. See the Out of Chicago video here.
    And the winners are… On the last street challenge, guest co-host Marius Vieth offered to send two Neoprime magazines to the winners of the Abstract in the Streets challenge. He also picked a winner.
    Marius’ challenge winner: Keith Johnson with this shot from Las Vegas
    Valerie’s challenge winner: Gagan Sadan
    NEW CHALLENGE! The Human Element in the Urban Landscape. Listen to the show to hear some tips. Here are some samples below. Enter your photo in the comment section below by January 7!
    Picks of the Week:
    Chris’ pick: Fujifilm Fujinon XF35mm F/2.0
    Valerie’ s Pick: Fujifilm WCL Wide Conversion Lens for X100 cameras
    Examples of human element in the urban landscape by Valerie Jardin for inspiration:
    45 min
  • Street Focus 64: Fish Eye Street with Willem Jonkers

    Street Focus 64: Fish Eye Street with Willem Jonkers
    This week Dutch street photographer Willem Jonkers tells us how to get really close to your subjects on the streets with a fish eye lens…
    Who is Willem Jonkers?
    Willem Jonkers
    I’m a street photographer living in the Rotterdam area. What street photography exactly is, I cannot define. I just like photographing persons on the streets that otherwise probably won’t be noticed or will be forgotten like most of us.
    By going at distances of sometimes less than one foot, my subjects fill the frame completely, but still with a good sense of the surroundings they are moving around in because of the wideness of the lenses I use. The intended distortion of a fisheye lens makes that framing possible. We as humans tend to think we’re very important, but the opposite is true. Within the universe we are not that significant and that’s the controversy within my frames by displaying my subjects in an unusual way.
    Very often I photograph just right in front of someone’s feet from a very low angle and you’ll get that “Gulliver” effect which gives my subject that ‘greatness’ in my frames. Secondly, meandering the streets and scanning for beautiful, strange or otherwise interesting characters and magnitude them in contrast to their surroundings using different techniques gives them that same center stage, but with a bit less emphasizing the ‘greatness’, but more down to earth. By using negative space to my advantage in a carefully composed frame brings out the surroundings more where a person is moving in an isolated space.
    Getting spotted doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t really care what people think of me in general as long as we respect one another. By using that in my advantage it gives me the pleasure of having nice interactions with complete strangers. Until now, I’ve never been aggressively rejected.
    The streets are always interesting to watch. Walking the streets with my camera, makes me an observer rather than a participant. That gives me a completely different view on what’s happening in society.
    Links to get in touch with Willem and to see more of his work:
    www.willemjonkers.com
    www.facebook.com/willemstreets
    www.twitter.com/willemstreets
    www.500px.com/willemstreets
    Some of his work:






    42 min
  • Street Focus 63: Street Tips with Spyros Papaspyropoulos


    Street Focus 63: Street Tips with Spyros Papaspyropoulos
    This week Street Hunter Spyros Papaspyropoulos shares his top 10 street tips with us.
    Spyros Papaspyropoulos
    Spyros Papaspyropoulos is a Street Photographer from Greece. He shoots mostly in Rethymno in Crete where he currently lives, and in Athens the capital of Greece, one of his favourite cities in the world for Street Photography. He is Founder of StreetHunters.net and a strong believer in being free to photograph anything that is in the public. He loves breaking the rules, experimenting and making unconventional photos. Besides shooting digital, there are times when he enjoys using his old Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder film cameras. He loves shooting at the 28mm and 35mm focal length. Anything narrower feels too constricting for him. As another type of photography, Spyros likes Monochrome Landscape photography on very rare occasions.
    Connect with Spyros and Street Hunters here:
    www.streethunters.net
    www.flickr.com/groups/streethuntersnet/
    www.streetphotographer.gr














    34 min
  • Street Focus 62: Removed with Eric Pickersgill


    Street Focus 62: Removed with Eric Pickersgill
    Documenting people being disconnected from the world around them because of their phone has been done time and time again. Eric Pickersgill came up with a new way to bring awareness to this growing trend by removing the phone from his subjects’ hands in a series titled Removed.
    Eric Pickersgill

    Artist statement
    Removed is a photographic series that explores the way personal devices play a role in society, relationships, and the body. This work has been featured on nearly 100 international media outlets including Business Insider, The Atlantic, Washington Post, CNN, The BBC, WIRED, Huffington Post and many more.

    Artist bio
    Eric Pickersgill has exhibited his work nationally at institutions and galleries such as The Center for Fine Art Photography, Duke University, The North Carolina Museum of Art, University of Northern Florida, and The Ackland Art Museum. Eric is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art in New York.
    Links

    www.removed.social
    www.ericpickersgill.com

    www.rickwesterfineart.com

    A few images from the series Removed 

















    35 min

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