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Our second assignment concentrates on the classic genre of street photography. I’ve loved shooting street for a long time now, so relished doing this assignment. The brief was to create three pictures from different situations on the street that focus on human behavior.

Now this is where it got tricky for me. Durban doesn’t have a bustling metropolis. In fact I won’t even call it a city, more of a collection of buildings at the end of the harbor. The next factor that made life harder for me, was that with street photography, you need to blend in and work in a way that the people you are photographing don’t know you are doing it. That’s bloody hard when you are 6.1″, blonde and the only white guy on the street.

Your average white South Africans all shudder and gasp with the thought of venturing into the city. Maybe it’s due to some old wives tale about them being robbed or stabbed, but I can promise you, white people don’t do the city.

So, with that in mind, I set off to grab images meeting with the requirements of the brief. I had a following and often people crowded around me when I took the shot. This was pretty weird, so much for blending in.

I’ll post the images when the assignment has been critiqued.

John Easterby has graciously just critiqued my street images and besides the crappy scanning, I think he was happy with them overall. I am aware I need to get closer, I’m struggling to find that balance with various cultural beliefs and also taking a street shot and morphing it into a semi-posed portrait. This comes with experience and it’s one of my weaknesses right now.

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