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The Rush of Black and White Urban Street Photography in Time and Space
A good photo is about content, not what time of day it is. So if I can create a photo that makes the viewer forget about time, and think about the space, then I’m getting closer to my goal as a photographer.
4 min readApr 15, 2023
I often lose track of time. especially when I’m busy taking photos.
A photo is within a frame. The outside world has been eliminated, and the photo expresses an idea that has been stopped. That’s part of what makes it so fascinating.
We often rush to take the shot, then everything becomes still.
The shot above, a person is waiting for a train. So is the photographer. So we must bide time and wait three minutes until the next train arrives.
Today, I waited three minutes, the train came, I got on. I then sat and looked through my photos.
When I looked up, I realised that I’d arrived at the wrong station, in the wrong direction on the wrong train.
