Street Photography: Beauty in the Mundane

It has been awhile since I have posted any photography on this site. I hope to remedy this. I found this image courtesy of Guy Kawasaki posting to Twitter this Smashing Magazine article about the Beauty of Street Photography. They go on to post different examples of some really great images of just street photography. I chose to highlight the image above by tbaur because there's something about street photography that is expressed in this. Such a simple image of a woman resting or maybe she's sad or upset and yet it so easily elicits an emotion.

It's always interesting to me what people look like when they don't know anyone is watching them. Kind of like Simon Hoegsbeg's Public and Private project. If you look through his photographs very few people are smiling. It's just interesting for a people watcher like myself to see these shots immortalized or frozen in time. Most of these shots are taken probably while people were walking between places - work and home or wherever.




What's also amazing is these examples of street photography can turn an everyday occurrence into something beautiful. For example the above shot by MisterKey. Usually when we're walking and a bunch of pigeons are flying around we're more worried about dodging them than the scene that is before us.

So stop and look around you today. See the beauty in the seemingly mundane.