Category Archives: Street photography

Street photography?

Perhaps, in a way it is. I recently visited Gran Canaria and did not bring my camera. Only my iPhone. That is not a camera! Or what do you say? Anyway it produces images. I don´t like using it is a camera but there are a few things I like. The way to manipulate images is simple and it is quick. There are many apps but I usually use the original in the camera. Perhaps one that is called TiltShift. It does just what the name says, but of course not with with swings and tilts. But it adds blur. If you don’t have a tilt shift camera, or lens, it is as close as you can get. When on the move, with a camera, I usually transfer selected images to the phone. Add some effects and publish. Quick and simple. I think.

Here is a small selection from the vacation. A new surrounding attracts the eye. So I came home with some images from manhole covers in a design we don’t have in Sweden. And now, anyway, most covers are covered in snow and ice.

😊 Pelle

What is this?

Has this happened to you too? Just found some old, not used in a long time, USB memory sticks. This is a series of images that was hidden on one of them. Was, they are not hidden any longer.

The stick is named Malmö_Cph 2015-12-13 jpeg. I assume it is images photographed in Malmö and in Copenhagen in 2015. Not too complicated to understand. About 10 years ago. What was I doing there? Visiting my wife who used to work there for some time. Could be, but I really don´t remember. Looks like I was looking down most of the time. Viewing streets through my camera..

Looks like I was doing some street photography. And was having great fun.

It was ages since I wrote in my blog, but I hope I can do that more often, much more often, this year. It is fun!

Greetings from Pelle 😊

Perpignan in fond memory.

I have attended the press photo festival several years. Always in fond memory for the exhibitions, workshops, colleagues and the city. A special theme for my own photography has been “door art”. You will understand when you see my pictures. Always lively in color and graffiti. The door knobs not to forget. Photographers tend to like the small things that will catch the eye, but perhaps not what everybody can see.

When ever I go on a journey and bring my camera, I am looking for a theme to explore. In Perpignan it wasn´t difficult to find one.

Pelle / Znapshot Studio

Alphabet city

Perhaps you thought that is only a part of New York City, but it is everywhere. You don´t believe me? I will show you. This is an exercise I did in art school, but I also did it not so long ago. Back then it was in b/w but now it is in color. I didn´t go far to get all the letters. It is great fun and you can do it in many different ways. Like every season. In sunny or cloudy weather.

I made it in English and stopped short of Å, Ä and Ö, but I found them too. A good exercise on your next stroll in the city. Wherever you are. This is Stockholm.

😊 Pelle

Footography.

New York, Manhattan

Hi,

In my aim to get this blog up and running again I have decided to start with this image. A well known landmark from New York. The Empire State Building. During frequent visits many years ago that was my main subject for my photography. This is one of the images I like the most. It was not made in an ordinary way, let me tell you. It is no secret. I tripped my small camera, a Minox 35, on my foot. Like this illustration below. It was late afternoon and I needed to steady my camera. People passing by was looking at me wondering what I was doing, though this was NY. Nothing surprises. This was the result from four exposures, I think. I think I could not have made it better aiming with my hands and eyes. Or, what do you think? Without metadata on my film I think it was during the late 70´ or early 80´s.

: ) greetings Pelle

A picture a day…

Perhaps it keeps the doctor away. His wife will know.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/magazine/amp-stories/capturing-washington-city-life-through-street-photography/?hpid=hp_hp-visual-stories-desktop_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Great images by and a fine story about Robert Miller.

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“a man with the camera of an artist, the pen of a poet and a genius for the impossible”

Said by Harrison Salisbury about David Douglas Duncan. A life in photography. This is fantastic reading from Washington Post with many great links for more interesting material.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/david-douglas-duncan-photo-nomad-who-captured-war-and-picasso-dies-at-102/2018/06/07/8b8fb84e-6a93-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?utm_term=.bbec8af2b344

Top image, Marine Capt. Ike Fenton during a Korean War battle in 1950.                                (© David Douglas Duncan/Harry Ransom Center)

😊  Pelle

Rare photographs that changed lives

And photography still changes lives! 🙂  Pelle

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-43031764

Twenty-four photographs from the Lewis Hine archive have been auctioned in New York. The rare prints were from the collection of the late New York photographer Isador Sy Seidman.

American sociologist Hine was one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th Century. Because the notion of photojournalism and documentary did not exist at the time, Hine called his projects “photo stories”, using images and words to fight for the causes he believed in.

The prints span Hine’s career and many are from his most well-known projects, centring on the poor and disadvantaged from the Carolinas, New York and Pittsburgh.

All photographs courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.

The above image: Hot day on East Side, New York, 1908.

I found these photographs in BBC.

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Labourer on connector, Empire State Building, 1930-31.

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Pennsylvania coal breakers, [Breaker Boys], 1912.

Now I wish I lived in London

The top 10 photography exhibitions of 2017.

I picked this up in The Guardian.  😊   Pelle

About the top image:  A still from Incoming by Richard Mosse. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and carlier|gebauer, Berlin.

Perhaps the most widely discussed exhibition of the year, Mosse’s vast three-screen video installation was not strictly photography, but addressed all the issues that the medium is freighted with as it negotiates the post-truth world. Shot on a hi-tech military surveillance camera that registers body heat from as far away as 30km, Incoming reimagined the contemporary refugee crisis as a Ballardian dystopian drama populated by spectral figures moving slowly through an alien landscape. Beautifully observed moments of heightened intimacy – a lone figure praying to Mecca amid the tumult around him – provide breathing space in an almost overwhelming audiovisual installation.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/13/top-10-photography-exhibitions-of-2017