Raoul Isidro Images wrote:
http://500px.com/photo/5421160

she's so young to be homeless.

Rob Mac Studio wrote:

This is INSANE ~ gotta love people with that personality that can think OUTside the box.

Rob Mac Studio wrote:

Seriously? Granny might bust a nut on that thing!

Lee K wrote:
I don't really do street photography.  But here's something I took last year that might qualify.



Some guy on a bench with a stache.

I think that "stache" is starting to move...
Is that bench directly over a drain cover or is that a wet spot? Lol

MC Grain wrote:

Features means editorial. If your definition of PJ is anything that appears in a newspaper, then there's no way to argue with that. But, Street, PJ and Documentary all have specific styles.

I don't see how you can call this PJ, it's not news and it's not even about a person. It's closer to fine art. A photo doesn't have to be fine art to be Street, but this is definitely Street rather than the other two categories.



If you look at these, there are a couple that could be considered portraits, but this is documentary. It's not news, it's not about an event. In some ways the reason that it exists is because it's not news. The purpose of this is to affect people's behavior by communicating without words. In other words, through art a story, or condition is told. While there's probably quite a bit of improv behind the creation of these photos, they could be posed and still equally valid. That can't happen in PJ or Street, only Documentary - think about the portrait aspect.

A photo of Obama or a candidate giving a speech from a podium isn't Street, and as a single shot is not part of a documentary narrative, so it's not Documentary, it's a PJ photo.


We can make broad categories: portraits, fine art, PJ. If you're going to make things that broad, I can see an argument for Street falling under PJ, but I think there's equally an argument for putting it under fine art. It's like calling Lifstyle photos Commercial. Ok fine, but when you call them Lifestyle you're really specifying something whereas Commercial could be a catalog photo of clothes, not on a model, or a still life of jewelery or a car.

There is a separate style to the content of Street, Documentary, and PJ, which makes them all different and gives them their own identity, like Lifestyle, regardless of the style they're shot in.

This is why there was the exchange "That's not a Street photo" "Yes it is, I was standing in the street when I shot it." Street describes a style of content, not a location.

It could possibly be Documentary if the person on the bicycle was fleeing from a crime scene

maso-arts wrote:

Bravo!

Rob Mac Studio wrote:

That is the coolest thing ever..

MMDesign wrote:

Really like this one.

Me too.

MMDesign wrote:

Really like this one.

Me too.