Summer is prime time for photo shoots on the street — depending on what your intentions are. — Yesterday evening drew in quickly, I was busy reading a good book, one eye ogling the changing light outside my kitchen window. A keen photographer will always have an excuse to get out and take photos. I wanted to catch the evening light. I’d packed my camera in my shoulder…

Photography is the experience of making love to the moment, savouring it, caressing it with the lens, a moment of pleasant awareness. — Every photography admits that they have messed up a photo opportunity by fumbling, over reacting, and maybe attempting to manipulate the moment, when they should have been interacting with the moment. The more we understand what we are looking at, the better the outcome.

It’s not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It’s their intimate relations with it. — Antoine D’Agata — As a street photographer I think about “why?”, very often. It’s in our nature, we always want more. So, when I ask why do I take photos on the street, I already know the answer, but I want more answers. It’s as if I’m piling up a lot of information…

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — People go swimming in the Müggelsee lakes, they come down from the centre of Berlin to spend a relaxing day on the grassy banks. I planned to take a few photos around the lake. That didn’t happen, I got caught up in Friedrichshagen’s main street. When you walk with a…

A good photo should have qualities of art in it. What do I mean? — If you take photos and want others to enjoy your work, your own unique way of looking should be somewhere in the photo. That’s what I mean. It’s been a while since I thought seriously about colour photography. Today, I took a photo down by the river.

Photography is an exciting activity. Mostly for the person behind the camera, but we hope it will turn out to be an enjoyable and thoughtful moment for the person who looks at the photos. — I live in the city. But I often have the urge to take landscape photos, so I travel to the nearby villages and towns to see what’s on offer. If you want to take good photos, then take photos of the things that touch you.

Some of the most iconic self-portraits is the work of painters who celebrated, in one way of another, their own individualism. The self portrait is a difficult work to get right. Who can really say how they look at any particular time in life? We take it for granted that we have the right to choose our own identities. This allows us to look around and try out different personas as we grow and mature in life.

Street photography as a career isn’t the best option. Mainly because street photography is a very personal thing. — Personal ideas are the stuff of good business. On the other hand, any type of photography as a career move, seems to be tough to get into to. There are various opinions about why photography is difficult to set up as a career choice. One of them is that cameras and the photography business has changed, dramatically, over…