STREET PHOTOGRAPHY INDEX
by
RUUD LEEUW

My focus in photography, and in general interests, shifts and wanders.. Circa 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, et cetera, took my interest. Photobooks were bought and in subsequent years I started actively collecting 'art' (photo)books.
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'. Soon replaced by a Panasonic Lumix G (DMC-GX80) and in 2020 I bought a secondhand Leica Q to compare it with the Pana.
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. In August 2020 I created a colour page of this work.
And followed by Photographers & musicians (street) in March 2021.

"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
"The basic belief in art, is the basic belief in the goodness of mankind" -Vladimir Nabokov

"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world picturesque." -Susan Sontag, 1977

>| MY STREETPHOTOGRAPHY (B&W) |
Ruud Leeuw - streetphotography
B&W PAGE ONE + PAGE TWO + PAGE THREE (2025)

>| MY STREETPHOTOGRAPHY IN COLOUR |
Ruud Leeuw - streetphotography

COLOUR PAGE ONE + PAGE TWO + 2025

>| STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, MY EARLY YEARS |
Ruud Leeuw - streetphotography

'I photograph the everyday. What might have seemed trivial before it was given new life by a new gaze.
I love to snap whatever deserves to be photographed, the world therefore, even in its glimpses of humble monotony.' ¬André Kertész

'We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.' ¬John Berger

'We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.' ¬Anaïs Nin



| STREET MUSICIANS |
Street musicians

| PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE STREET|
Streetphotography by Ruud Leeuw

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SEE ALSO MY TRAVELOGUE 1970s - PRESENT

Wikipedia defines street photography as "photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents."
Typically, street photography is about candidly capturing life in public areas. This could be 'daily comings and goings' but also events. And contrary to its name, street photography does not have to be done on the streets. You can do street photography anywhere.
While travelling, I often gravitate to museums, coffee shops or even the mall. Also on public transportation, one can always find great subjects on buses and trains.
¬ photographylife.com/what-is-street-photography

 

Murals @Glasgow (May 2022)
Glasgow
Erasmusbrug
Rotterdam
Il Carnevale, Venezia 2022
Venice

 

QUOTES I CAN RELATE TO.

"The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words". ¬Elliott Erwitt (quote found on FB)

 

 

 

 

Created: 16-Sep-2016