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Goodbye Street GalleryIn few days, a whole year will have passed since the day I took over dA's Street Gallery as Street Community Volunteer.
A neglected gallery, full of misplaced images, but also with many worthy submissions.
I visited this galllery everyday, cleaning it (the 24h and 1month popular pages) and informing the photographers of the misplaced images (every single one of them), what Street is all about.
At the same time, 3 days per week, I featured a worthy image as a Street Daily Deviation, taking in account your suggestions as well. The featured images were not necessarily the "best" of the featured deviants. My intention was not to feature "bests" but to draw the community's attention, to active Street photographers, both experienced and new to the genre, in order to boost their dedication to Street. I am content because a lot of times I succeeded.
During this year, a lot of people helped me with their suggestions and with working in Groups, promoting the genre and de

Street…without PeoplePART IV
The series of 5 articles about Street Photography made by *myraincheck and slightly edited by moi* continues with:
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY…WITHOUT PEOPLE
First things first let's remember that street photography is not so much about the subjects as it is a style of photographing, a 'forma mentis', a way to think, see, capture images. A forma mentis that can be summed up in the ability of RE-INTERPRETING, RE-CONTEXTUALIZING, giving a different interpretation, placing in a different context, the reality around us, giving it an additional significant meaning.
Even if the classic structure of street photography is a meaningful interaction between human and surroundings, we can have street photos where the human element is not physically present. Sometimes it can be symbolized by other elements, sometimes it is completely absent. Let's show some examples:
SYMBOLIC HUMAN PRESENCE
The human element is not physically present, but t

Street Photography Tutorial - IPART II
The series of 5 articles about Street Photography made by *myraincheck and slightly edited by moi* continues with:
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIAL - PART ONE
THE HUMAN SUBJECT
(article from photo4u.it - il portale italiano della fotografia translated and adapted to dA by *myraincheck)
Let's close our eyes and imagine going out in the streets and looking for unusual things. What do we expect to find? People, first of all.
That's good, the HUMAN PRESENCE is a fundamental element of street photography.
If we want to use only this ingredient, we'll be able to realize a true street photo only if the person we capture will have something unusual or interesting or is doing something unusual or interesting. Otherwise we'll have a good portrait, an enviromental portrait, a wide portrait whatever, but not a street photo.

Street Photography Tutorial - IIPART III
The series of 5 articles about Street Photography made by *myraincheck and slightly edited by moi* continues with:
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIAL - PART TWO
COMBINATION OF HUMANs+SURROUNDINGS
Photographing together human presence and surroundings, combining them in something interesting and unusual, we obtain the classic structure of a street photography.
But mind you, it is not enough taking a photo with people and surroundings to have a good street photo! Remember that we have to strike, surprise, trigger an emotional response.
And that we can do CONNECTING people and surroundings.


by Nils Jorgensen


by Nils Jorgensen


by Nick Turpin

The Essence of "Street"PART V
The series of 5 articles about Street Photography made by *myraincheck and slightly edited by moi* ends with:
WHAT IS STREET PHOTOGRAPHY?
Trying to define a genre of photography like Street, it implies the consciousness that one definition will never be enough, or exhaustive, or able to cover the molteplicity of its possibilities and situations. Nevertheless let's try to comprehend the philosophy behind the passion for street photography.
Let's start stating that a street photo is not a photography of streets and it is not necessarily a photo taken in a street. So what does 'street' mean? Street is whatever background or surrounding, not staged, not posed by the photgrapher. And street is whatever photography which captures, explores humanity, the human behaviour, the relationships between individuals and between individuals and their surroundings.
"The essence of street photography is the impulse to take candid pictures in the

The Lucky 13 (street tips)13 Street Photography Tips
Tony Ray-Jones was an English street photographer. In the early 60′s he traveled to the U.S for studying for a Master of Fine Arts in graphic design at Yale. He moved to NY after graduating and got a job as an art director for CBS records but he was determined to become a photographer. In New York he became good friends with Joel Meyerowitz and became part of the NY street photographers scene led by Garry Winogrand.
Jones kept notebooks, a journal if you'd like in which he wrote down his thoughts, lists and plans about photography. In one of those lists, titled "Approach" he listed some tips for better street photographs. These tip are still valid today and can be used as a basic guidelines to better street photography.
1. Be more aggressive- just to be clear, this does not mean at any way that you should jump into situation that could become violent! In a way, this simple

PE: Street Photography for experts

Defining Street Photography
by Dave Beckerman
Most types of photography can be easily defined by their subjects. A wedding photographer takes pictures of weddings. A portrait photographer poses someone and takes their picture. The nature photographer covers a wide area, but it is easy to categorize.
Street photography is difficult to define because it can encompass just about any subject.
If I were to ask you to name a few famous street photographers, you might pick, Garry Winnograd, Henri Cartier-Bresson, or maybe Robert Frank. But if I asked you to define street photography that would be more difficult. You might say that street photography is candid pictures of strangers on the street. That might be a good start, but it doesn't really

PE: 52 Street tips from the Masters

“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.” — Bruce Gilden
“Turn your attention to the four-legged population.” — Ying Tang
“Take a bus. Do weekly shopping. Pop into a public loo.” — Nils Jorgensen
“Document some evidence of human ingenuity that would otherwise go unnoticed. Do it without including any humans in the picture.” — Michael Wolf
“Get lost in a thicket of signs and structures.” — Wolfgang Zurborn
“Never ignore a cliché.” — Artem Zhitenev
“When you have to shoot: shoot! Don’t talk!” — Il Brutto.

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Part of my latest "Streets of Athens" blog update General State Hospital, Athens with 28 new images.

Taken with a cell phone, post processed with Nik Silver Efex Kodak Tri-X 400TX Pro film emulation.

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*badnan Aug 10, 2012 Photographer

Polu proodeutikh h idea su na petuxeis ena tetoio concept. Pragmatika oles einai toso ksexwristes ean kai sto idio meros...nosokomeio.
Eugalismo exeis paei??? dn kserw gia fotografies pantws gia enan kalo dmosiografo thelei... Entupwsiakh eikona me thn kakh ennoia pu oi astheneis einai anagasmenh thn prwth mera na parameinun se ratza an kai exei adeia krevatia...h guristh skala logw twn pollwn orofwn dinei ena wraio effect kai ean eisai polu tuxeros tha vgaleis kai kanena klefth se stigmh drashs mia kai h epivlepsh sthn porta eisodou einai perith!!

`StamatisGR Aug 22, 2012 Photographer

στο Γενικό Κρατικό ήταν πολύ καλύτερα

=steppeland Aug 1, 2012 Photographer

Marvellous, great series indeed!
Yeah, those cell phones... they do have something good about them, in that they are less obvious than a normal camera...
tried mine several times too, but can't get sharp enough images to my taste yet... More practice needed, I guess...
Awesome work here, Stamatis!

`StamatisGR Aug 1, 2012 Photographer

Thank you very much for your visit and comment dear!
It's much appreciated!

=steppeland Aug 1, 2012 Photographer

my pleasure!

~NightArmie Jul 30, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Great shot and great series!

*truerebellion Jul 30, 2012 Photographer

Great series filled with emotions. Did you need permission to take photos inside the hospital? Great PJ anyway. Or whatever we categorize it

`StamatisGR Jul 30, 2012 Photographer

permission? no.
There was no "no photographs" sign anywhere

thanks a lot!

~Manlarr Jul 29, 2012

A cell phone. No kidding. It really does remind me of what tri-x looks like.

`StamatisGR Jul 30, 2012 Photographer

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