Inbox
Feb 27, 2018
4 minutes
Street smarties
I know the feeling experienced by Stevie Smith in his letter ‘Who you looking at?' (‘Inbox' in AP 17 February). It is intimidating to go out there and do something others might not approve of or would even strongly object to. I've been a keen street photographer for six years now – started with photographing the backs of people, then progressed to facing them, but from a distance. Then I decided I just needed to display some confidence and see how it went. In all these years, I have only been confronted once, and then too the people who confronted me weren't even the subjects I was photographing. On most occasions, a smile does the trick.
I use three golden rules: (1) Act
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