Hey friend. This post is the first thing that I saw today, I just read it with the glass of tap water and a small piece of the fresh lemon in my mouth (daily anti-infection procedure, just eat lemon during a day or close to the evening, but yesterday return home to late and fell asleep like dead). And surprised to find my name in the bottom part of your reflections.
I'm not much in the book reading process these days and the days when I read a high mount of the different literature, I wasn't in the interest of reading about the documentary photography process, more about the understanding of life and what is happening around. All the Haruki Murakami books (wonderful storytelling), Karlos Castaneda, etc. I never learned photography in the proper way, how many people learn it.
Some kind of inspiration i got from the masters of documentary - Daido Moriyama , John Free
Daniel Milnor and some others.
"Everybody Street" is wonderful and definitely inspirative like hell.
Somehow I started exploring the streets in the same way, mostly with another photographer, but very fast got that I prefer to be alone, maximum with one, who is very close to my way of walking and looking around. Exactly as I did yesterday during my visit in Jerusalem, just with one camera, one lens, sometimes a beer in my free hand.
this was the first frame I took yesterday - one of them asked me to take a photo of them.
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I may have to try the lemon thing, never heard of that before.
I don't read much anymore, at least in book format and don't think I've ever read a book on the documentary photography process. Both of the books I mentioned are primarily about the war and the authors' experiences covering it. In their own way they're about trying to understand life and what is happening as well, albeit in the narrow context of the war.
I think we learned photography about the same way, I just picked up a camera and started experimenting with it. I will check those out!
I mostly work alone too although I like to go shooting with my partner. They have a rather different way of looking at and shooting things which tends to work out nicely, we both get new ideas from how the other is doing things.
Love the shot!