Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer. He began shooting in colour in 1962 ; unusual for artists at the time to do so. Using a 35mm (colour film) camera, his images had a sense of real planning prior to his work , sometimes capturing ongoing events that seem more spontaneous. His images are my concept of street photography and I would like to shoot in a similar fashion. To do this, I want to walk a busy part of a street, capturing anything I see. Unlike Meyerowitz, I will be using digital camera. This will enable me to alter parts of the image.
This image particularly interests me. The foreground has figures that seem to be in a deep discussion while various buildings are in the background of the image. Various compositional lines give the image defining sections that are separated.
He describes his images as "compressing feelings into a 1000th of a second". This particular quote resonates with me.
