Photography FROM THE STREET

BY matthew (Pittsy)

aka Streets Wide Open

I've been into photography since my teenage years, I'm a very visual person, good with faces rubbish with names kind of thing, I have always seen things on the streets as scenes playing out that I think will make a great photograph. I see people doing things and I see people not doing things, gesturing or just staring into space, drinking coffee in a coffee shop and lit by the window they’re sitting infront of, people emerging from the shadows, there is something happening all the time and I see these things and I think “Is that going to make a great picture?” and once I started to make photographs of these scenes i couldn't stop, I'm not sure if it became an addiction or if it was simply that I knew these scenes were happening every day, and I had to photograph as many of them as I could, and once I came away with what I beleived to be a great first street picture i was hooked and now I don't want to miss anything.