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The Wista Photo Gallery is a photography exhibit of documentary photographs taken in Worcester, Massachusetts. The photographs are full frame black & white images.

I am the master of the STREET! :) My question is : Who the hell cares?

-- Mark Tillman (wista2000@hotmail.com), April 01, 2000

Answers

Being interested in street photography, I have a similar question: apart from collecting them in a book, what the hell do you do with them? I know I won't be publishing a book of my street photography any time soon, but I enjoy shooting on the street. But the images I take wouldn't necessarily illustrate any magazine articles that come to mind. So what do you do?

Stuart Hamby

-- Stuart Hamby (stuhamby@uswest.net), April 03, 2000.

I have wanted to create a website where people could post their street photography in galleries organized by city (as opposed to thematically). It would be cross between a travel site and a sociological study, I guess.

-- John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com), April 03, 2000.

For peope that have never gone on the hunt...

I realize that not everyone understands or loves documentary photography the way I do. If you have never done this type of photography try to imagine yourself pointing a camera in the face of a total strange and taking a photograph worth viewing later. Was the exposure right? Was the focus right? Was the light right? Was the composition right? Did I get some sort of tangible emotion from the shot? All this in a fraction of a second. Your brain is on auto pilot...

-- Mark Tillman (Wista2000@hotmail.com), April 03, 2000.

and that goes for "people" as well...:)

-- Mark Tillman (wista2000@hotmail.com), April 03, 2000.

John - Just make sure San Francisco (and San Jose), Oaxaca, Merida, and Fes are included. Then I will have something to put in the gallery.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), April 04, 2000.

And Anchorage, please!

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), April 04, 2000.

And Taipei!

Actually, in response to John Kantor: what a tremendous idea! I love things like that that get photogs together, instead of always thinking of each other as *competition*.

...Now if only we could get it to make money...

Stuart Hamby

-- Stuart Hamby (stuhamby@uswest.net), April 07, 2000.