Photographer Alastair Arthur tells us how he set out on a street portrait marathon in his new home of Hoboken to meet the locals and get his name out.

Street Focus 56: Faces of Hoboken with Alastair Arthur

Alastair Arthur

Photographer Alastair Arthur tells us how he set out on a street portrait marathon in his new home of Hoboken to meet the locals and get his name out.

Alastair Arthur is a headshot and portrait photographer, based recently in Paris, and now New York. He regularly practices street photography, is the author of The Photographer’s Guide to Paris and teaches as a master in The Arcanum. You can see more of his work and projects on his website or on Instagram.

You can see the entire project here: Faces of Hoboken.

This week on Street Focus my guest is French street photographer Marie Laigneau. Together we discuss her top 10 street photography tips.

Street Focus 55: Street Tips with Marie Laigneau

This week my guest is French street photographer Marie Laigneau.

Marie Laigneau

Marie is a French street photographer based out of London. She enjoys traveling to the world’s biggest cities to capture the fleeting essence of urban life, projecting her dreams and fantasy into ordinary scenes. Her work has been exhibited in several venues around the US, and her love for storytelling and composition has led her to publish her first eBook: Creating Impact – Storytelling in Street Photography. She manages the Black and White Street.com photography community on Facebook, alongside a fantastic team of photographers and mentors.

Links: Website , eBook  , Black and white street.com FB community

Together we discuss the following 10 Street Tips at length on the show. Enjoy!

Learn to see the light

Search for the mood

Simplify, simplify, simplify

Forget the technique

Know your city upside down

Never lose focus

Become fearless

Embrace mindfulness

Fail often, try again

* Make up your own mind

Some of Marie Laigneau’s beautiful work:

On this episode of Street Focus, photo journalist Nicolas Enriquez takes us into everyday life of a New York City organized gang through his photo essay titled The Bloodline.

Street Focus is one year old! Thank you all for your support, it's been an amazing year and I have lots of exciting shows coming up. This week I'm excited to have award winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Steve Simon join me to answer questions and more! We delve into the differences between shooting street and photo journalism and much more.

In this new Streets of the World segment of Street Focus I take you to Cape Town in South Africa. Your local street photography guide for this trip is Leon Oosthuizen.