Tristan Parker Photography

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Posts tagged perception
Where Will the Street Photography Boom End?

Street photography is booming right now, and I think that this raises a few questions. Some of these questions in my mind will lead to desirable results, others however may not.

In the years gone by there have been a wealth of very talented artists that have walked the streets of the various cities and locations of the world with a simple camera in hand, and a very simple goal. The goal was to document and record the world around them. Some were doing it for different reasons to others. Some were doing it to preserve memories of their life, others as they loved to interact with their subjects and record life of people in the places that they either lived or visited. Others still as they were simply obsessed with the still image and its wonders. I think that even the later needed to be draw in some way to the people around them though, it was a requirement of the trade for most.

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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

I work in a big organistion and the other day one of the many newsletters went around... This one is issues by the guys in the design team. Its one of my favourite as far as the corporate messages are concerned.The design newsletter focuses on design from a business sense. Its the space that I work in professionally. The last page of the newsletter often contains a quote that they grab from somewhere, and is usually something that I dont really connect wwith. However, this month was a little different.

The quote for the month was:

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

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