--- title: Street Photography description: Street photography documents everyday life and public spaces, capturing candid moments and human interactions. You will understand how to compose shots quickly, work with ambient light, overcome the anxiety of photographing strangers, and develop a distinct visual storytelling style. category: arts-design subcategory: photography difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/photography-street-photography --- # Street Photography Street photography documents everyday life and public spaces, capturing candid moments and human interactions. You will understand how to compose shots quickly, work with ambient light, overcome the anxiety of photographing strangers, and develop a distinct visual storytelling style. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 1 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Street Photography International An online platform run by a street photography collective, publishing photographer interviews, technique articles, and monthly competitions. Useful for seeing how working photographers frame candid scenes and for comparing your own work against curated selections. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://streetphotographyinternational.com/ **Tags:** street-photography, photography-community, photo-competitions, documentary-photography ### 2. In-Public The first international street photography collective, founded in 2000, hosting portfolios from members such as Nick Turpin and Matt Stuart alongside essays. Studying these bodies of work shows how a consistent personal style is built over years. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.in-public.com/ **Tags:** street-photography, photography-collective, portfolios, candid-photography ### 3. erickimphotography.com Erick Kim Photography is an education-focused site dedicated to street photography, offering practical tutorials, essays, and field guides that teach observation, composition, and shooting in public spaces. It also features critiques, courses, and downloadable resources to help photographers study and improve their street work. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://erickimphotography.com **Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts ### 4. fstoppers.com Fstoppers is a photography-focused site offering tutorials, gear reviews, and behind-the-scenes videos that teach composition, lighting, and post-processing techniques to help photographers improve. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://fstoppers.com **Tags:** websites, arts-design, photography ## Courses ### 1. Street Photography Workshop Learn street photography from Eric Kim! This course covers techniques & insights to capture compelling, candid moments in urban environments. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.creativelive.com/class/street-photography-eric-kim **Tags:** street-photography, candid-photography, composition, photography-workshop ## Podcasts ### 1. Street Photography Magazine **Author:** Street Photography Magazine A magazine and companion podcast for street and documentary photographers, featuring interviews with working shooters, gear discussions, and field technique. Episodes explain how photographers approach strangers, handle legal questions, and edit a shoot into a coherent set. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://streetphotographymagazine.com/ **Tags:** street-photography, documentary-photography, photography-podcast, interviews ## Books ### 1. Street Photography Now **Author:** Sophie Howarth, Stephen McLaren A survey of present-day street photography pairing portfolios from a wide range of international photographers with essays on the genre. Readers come away with a sense of who is shooting now and the varied approaches taken to public space. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0500289077?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts ### 2. The Street Photographer’s Manual **Author:** David Gibson A practical guide organized around assignments and profiles of established photographers, covering techniques like following the light, waiting at a chosen spot, and shooting from the hip. Working through the exercises builds a repeatable approach to street shooting. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0500291306?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts ### 3. The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photographs **Author:** Michael Freeman Freeman analyses composition and design in photographs: framing, balance, dynamic tension, and the graphic elements of an image. Readers learn to plan a frame deliberately rather than crop later, and to explain why a picture works. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1905814046?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** photography, composition, visual-design, framing ### 4. Bystander: A History of Street Photography **Author:** Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz A narrative history of street photography from the nineteenth century onward, tracing Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Frank, Winogrand and their successors. Gives the lineage and critical arguments behind the genre, so contemporary work can be placed in context. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0821217550?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/photography-street-photography