Street Photography Tips, Interaction, Travel, Guides
* “Master Profiles” is a series profiling all the great photographers of uncontrolled life. Unlike the rest of the blog, I’m doing these in a straight profile format to make it easy for quick access to facts, quotes and knowledge on all the masters. I’ll also group them together here every time I add a new one.
Bruno Barbey (1941-2020)
Moroccan-born French photographer known for his work covering conflicted regions and his strong command of color.
Hey, everyone!
This year has been a rough one, to say the least. I had more work and plans scheduled for the year than ever before, but after March hit, almost everything went away. One of those plans was to start making videos. With things continually going poorly, I’ve kept pushing it off, but now I’m pushing myself to finally start. And once I start things, I’m good.
For years I’ve been asked why I don’t make any video content. The truth is getting in front of a camera and making it all about me has never been my thing. I like to focus on my work and keep all attention there. I don’t take myself seriously, but I do take my work very seriously, and want others to as well. Getting into video can effect that, just like making this blog can. I started this blog because there wasn’t anything like it and I saw how my unique experiences could help others, help I wish I’d had. Also, partly to push myself to finish my Major City project, as it was definitely something I wanted to quit and give up on countless times.
As you can see, there are no ads and I don’t even really promote it on my social media. I wanted to keep it somewhat separate from my work in a way. At times, I even thought about closing the blog, as I ran into instances where it hurt me when it came to work opportunities and impressions before seeing my work. Also, the blog has been a ton of work in itself. I’m happy it grew so much and appreciate all the love, but that has created even more time dedicated to answering emails and messages for related advice and other requests. I enjoy helping, but time without money, after already having to live by the means I do for all this, has been difficult.
I have decided to keep it up, though, and I’ve also decided to add video content. Content will be more for people that follow my work and I’m not interested in becoming a YouTube personality, I wouldn’t even want that. The videos won’t be highly edited or filled with trendy topics and flash. They will be focused on content, though, and not being concerned with views will go a long way towards that. I want the content to be unique, unlike other related content out there. I want it to be helpful, things that I’ve found helpful in photography over the years, from my personal experience and teaching and mentoring others. Content that would have been valuable to me. I also want it to be candid, genuine, interesting and fun. I like to get creative, so I have lists of series and topic ideas. And of course, there will be some content related to my major city work and this blog. Everything will evolve over time, but I’m happy to finally get started.
Different videos and series covering:
What’s in it for me? Well, hopefully it will be fun doing this and I enjoy helping others in ways I wish I’d been helped, but also I hope it will connect others more to my work and projects. And now that I have online mentorship programs going, along with more workshops again once the pandemic passes, I hope this will help there too. In the near future, I have plans for creating special video content highly focused on learning and improving your photography, much of which will be interactive, that will be available soon too.
Anyway, hopefully, this gives you some idea of what’s coming. For more, you’ll just have to follow along and see :)
Thanks for reading and all the best,
Forrest
After Santiago, came city #68 Buenos Aires on the Major City project. I’ll be discontinuing this 33 photos series on the blog soon, but I’ll explain why along with exciting details on some new things I have planned in an upcoming post. For now, though, I’ll share a last few additions of this long-time series here on Shooter Files.
Here’s 33 photos that I was able to capture during my time covering Buenos Aires…
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Buenos Aires, Argentina came in as major city #68 on my Major City project and here I’ll share for other visiting photographers a few first impressions covering the city with my camera during my work there, from a personal street photography perspective…
After Port-au-prince, came city #66 Mexico City, Mexico on the Major City project. I’ll be discontinuing this 33 photos series on the blog soon, but I’ll explain why along with exciting details on some new things I have planned in an upcoming post. For now, though, I’ll share a last few additions of this long-time series here on Shooter Files.
So here’s 33 photos that I was able to capture during my time in Mexico City…
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Mexico City, Mexico came in as major city #66 on my Major City project and here I’ll share a few first impressions covering the city with my camera during my work there.
Not many cities have brought me more diverse opinions. While a reputation of danger scares many away, others find a surprisingly interesting, historic and cleaned up city. The truth is Mexico City does warrant caution, especially outside the more touristic spots, but it’s also one of the more complex, attractive and memorable big cities you’ll experience. And big it is. Packed with culture and history around the buzzing center, you’ll also find a modern, contemporary city. You’ll find plenty of edge too. This brings more character, but bring your street smarts, as mine were needed on multiple occasions here. For street photography, there’s a charm to it that feels authentic and edgy, bringing a unique appeal that I’d recommend, warnings and all.
So here are my first impressions of Mexico City, from a personal street photographer perspective…
* “Master Profiles” is a series profiling all the great photographers of uncontrolled life. Unlike the rest of the blog, I’m doing these in a straight profile format to make it easy for quick access to facts, quotes and knowledge on all the masters. I’ll also group them together here every time I add a new one.
Jeff Mermelstein (1957-Present)
American photographer known for his quirky, absurdist and humorous photos of human idiosyncracy in New York City.
*A series of guides on shooting Street Photography in cities around the world. Find the best spots to shoot, things to capture, street walks, street tips, safety concerns, and more for cities around the world. I have personally researched, explored and shot Street Photography in every city that I create a guide for. So you can be ready to capture the streets as soon as you step outside with your camera!
After covering Santo Domingo, came major city #65 Port-au-Prince, Haiti on the Major City project. I’ll be discontinuing this 33 photos series on the blog soon, but I’ll explain why along with exciting details on some new things I have planned in an upcoming post. For now, though, I’ll share a last few additions of this long-time series here on Shooter Files.
So here’s 33 photos from my time covering Port-au-prince…
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I’m happy to share my photo series Limbo won First Place at the 2020 Italian Street Photo Festival. Below, is the winning series and I’m also in the works on making a zine of the full work connected to it. Thanks for looking and you can check out all the winners and finalists from the festival here:
https://2020.italianstreetphotofestival.com/winners-and-finalists-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0sAl4jjSTU-eOFBcveVOk_GUJSP3cD2qSGlHRlBIrI0dYuf0BkYKPla4A
