Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama once described street photography as capturing the alien and the unknown. A photographer goes out to the city streets, out of their comfort zone, and shows us different experiences, different people a different world.
The Street Photogprahy subreddit is a place where enthusiasts of this art form can come together and share their work, discuss technique, gear, or their philosophy behind shooting street. At least, that's what their bio states. "Photos in the streets, freaks in the sheets" is how they describe themselves. So, here we have a collection of the most captivating moments shared in the group for you to lose yourself into.
Bored Panda reached out to photographer James Maher to chat about street photography. He kindly agreed to tell us what makes street photography different from other genres of photography, how to shoot street without disrupting the moment, and what's the future for the art form now that we're all armed with tiny cameras in our pockets constantly. Read our conversation with him below!
#1 Morning In Himalayas
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#2 Street Light Moment
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#3 Sometimes You Just Get Lucky
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#4 Mirror Dimension
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#5 Faces (Patan, Nepal)
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#6 New To Reddit. Deciding To Share Some Of My Work
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#7 My Favorites Over The Last 6 Months
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#8 Snowy Night In Hokkaido, Japan
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#9 Vertical Street Scenes
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#10 South Haven, Mi
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#11 Should I Crop It Or Keep It As Is?
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#12 Motion Capture
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#13 I Had The Light Where I Wanted It For About 3 Minutes
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#14 Nikon F - 40mm Pancake - Sf Bus Smile
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#15 Picture I Took Back When The Flatiron Wasn’t Just Scaffolding 😔😩😭
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#16 Quit Photography For 4 Years And Recently Starred Shooting Again. Here’s A Few From The Archives And Recently! Hope You Enjoy
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#17 Sometimes, You Get Lucky
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#18 Boston Streets
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#19 Late Night Rain In Osaka
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#20 I Was Lucky Enough To Get The Perfect Reflection Line Up For This Shot After A Rainfall
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#21 On The Way, Cairo
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#22 Snowy Night In Sapporo, Northern Japan
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#23 Once Upon A Time In Newcastle
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#24 One Night In London
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#25 Some B&w Street Photography Shots Taken These Last Years
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#26 I Was Told This Was A Good Street Photography Shot
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#27 Toronto, 2021
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#28 Rainy Day In Osaka
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#29 Another Philly Photo. One Of My Personal Favorites And Hardest To Take
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#30 In Light Of Recent Events
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#31 Lonely
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#32 Shadow And Reflection
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#33 Got Real Lucky With This One
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#34 Some Shots From My First Few Months Of Shooting
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#35 Zakopane
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#36 Good Or Not Really
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#37 A Rainy Evening In Hong Kong
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#38 One Of The Coolest Photos I've Ever Taken
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#39 Almost 20 Years Later And I Still Can’t Believe I Got My Camera Out In Time To Capture This
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#40 People Of New York
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#41 Japan
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#42 Street Surrealism
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#43 A Lady And A Bird In Vancouver
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#44 Some Of The Last Digital Images I Ever Took Before Switching To Film Fully
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#45 Some Recent Shots From Tokyo
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#46 Street Photo Series With Something Red
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#47 Some Photos I Took In October
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#48 I Often Find Myself Shooting In Very Abstract Ways. Is It “Street?” Who Knows
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