STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
by
RUUD LEEUW

My focus in photography, and in general interests, shifts and wanders.. A few years ago, around 2012 I became more interested in photography's 'greats' and found myself more frequently visiting photo exhibitions and buying photobooks. Photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, John Margolies, Arnold Newman, Anton Corbijn, Steve McCurry, Werner Bischof, Annie Leibovitz, Marc Riboud, etc., took my interest. Photobooks were bought and in subsequent years I started actively collecting 'art' photobooks. I found myself less interested in portraits and landscapes and gradually my interest was steered to photojournalism and streetphotography. Or maybe the term 'humanist photographer' is best applied here. In the last two years streetphotography began to take up a large portion of my travel photography. In 2016 I bought a Fujifilm X100T camera for dedicated 'streetphotography'. Or perhaps the title of 'Humanist Photography' (wikipedia) is more appropriate. The images were shared on my travel pages, Blog and Flickr & Facebook accounts. In Sep.2016 I started this page, a gallery of such images I am most pleased with myself. "There is nothing in the world that does not have a decisive moment" -Henri Cartier-Bresson "Seeing is the paradise of the soul" -Pietro Spanno, eye doctor, elected Pope in 1276

 

Rouen, France - June 2014. Proud to stand out.

Scotland 2016 (travel page)

Scotland 2016

'It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it.' ¬Saul Leiter

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them" - Elliott Erwitt "It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter"- Alfred Eisenstaedt "Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph" - Andre Kertesz "Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work" - William Klein

 

England 2016

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Street fair
"Often, the best pictures are caught in a moment." ¬Mary Ellen Mark

Street fair

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Amsterdam Westergasfabriek

'A photographer's gift to the viewer is sometimes beauty in the overlooked ordinary.'
¬Saul Leiter

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Photo exhibition, 'Stephen Shore Retrospective', @Huis Marseille (2016, MyBlog)

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Cleaning sewage & drainage pipes

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Paris 9-2016 (travel page)

Paris 9-2016

Paris 9-2016

Paris 9-2016

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life" - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Paris 9-2016

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Lunch in Amsterdam's Warmoesstraat during record heat in Sep.2016

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Clingendael parkland, The Hague - Oct.2016

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Fabulous exposition of work by Josef Koudelka (Rotterdam, 10-2016)

Street in fog
(Panasonic FZ200, colour converted to B&W - Jan.2017)

Haarlem, april 2017

aving started my photography in the 1970s with military aircraft photography, this could have been me here...

At this air show I came for -and enjoyed-s the airplanes ('warbirds'), but this may be my finest photo!

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'I like it when one is not certain of what one sees. When we do not know why we are look at it, all of a sudden
we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.' ¬Saul Leiter

'Tricks'.
Rotterdam ¬Feb.2018

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Amsterdam, Sint Antoniesbreestraat ¬March 2018

Amsterdam, Oude Doelenstraat ¬March 2018

Amsterdam, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal ¬July 2018

 

Streetartists at the Deventer Book Fair, 2018Aug05

Osaka 2018 (my travel report)

Osaka 10-2018

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