Street & Documentary Photography
Creative · 71 members
Being close, being honest.
About this space
Working a scene, editing a set down, and the ethics of photographing strangers. Critique goes past 'nice shot' to what the frame is actually doing. Long-term projects are the heart of this space, and the edit is usually the harder half of the work.
Topics
- Critique
- Editing a set
- Ethics
- Projects
Recent discussions
- Photographing fishers for a reef report, and who the pictures end up blamingEthics · Oct 26, 2026 · 4 replies
- When photographing fishing crews for research outreach, whose story am I telling?Question · Ethics · Oct 25, 2026 · 4 replies
- Sequencing a photo set like a film editor: cutting on action and the hard cutEditing a set · Oct 24, 2026 · 4 replies
- Ethics: the advice I had to unlearnEditing a set · Oct 1, 2026 · 9 replies
- Critique request: six frames from one morning marketQuestion · Critique · Sep 30, 2026 · 8 replies
- Asking permission changed my photographs more than any lensEthics · Sep 24, 2026 · 6 replies
- Ethics: the best money I could spend right now?Question · Editing a set · Sep 11, 2026 · 11 replies
- Two years photographing one streetProjects · Sep 9, 2026 · 7 replies
- Editing a set: where would you tell a beginner to start?Question · Critique · Sep 7, 2026 · 8 replies
- Editing a set: six months in, including what did not workEthics · Sep 6, 2026 · 3 replies
- Ethics: what has actually changed in the last year?Editing a set · Sep 4, 2026 · 2 replies
- Editing a set: a small thing I am quietly pleased withCritique · Aug 20, 2026 · 9 replies
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