Street photography is a form of storytelling that communicates the experience of everyday life and the vision of the artist via photos shot out in the world. Like photojournalism, nothing is staged, posed, or planned, and it doesn’t rely on models or studio lights. “A lot of street photography is responding to life. It’s when you see an interaction or a person in a certain space, and you want to record that,” explains a photographer and professor.
Since so much of the lighting, content, and opportunity in street photography is dependent on chance, street photography can be a challenging genre of photography. But those challenges ensure that street photos are always one of a kind. It aims to document and examine life, as it happens. This book takes you to a journey around the streets of Dublin, Ireland's historic capital city, as street photography are shot. Explore gear choices, visual story-telling and compositional techniques, all illustrated with evocative black and white images from around the city.