Street photography Assignment
Streets in reflection


I was very disappointed not to have time to go through my Streets in reflection projectwith John. It’s a project I thoroughly engaged with, walking the city for several days and observing the world in the spots of water on the ground, the windows, the mirrors, the shadows, etc. Some photos evoke the mood of German expressionist films, with the extreme high contrasts and daunting shadows. Other pictures had a very artistic license, and were so abstract that I was beginning to wonder if they were too distant from photo-journalism.























Where is the frontier between art photography and photojournalism? In that regard, the lecture with Adam was incredibly appropriate and interesting, and so was Peter Fraser‘s. Artistic or conceptual photojournalists raise pertinent questions, provoke the audience, and challenge the medium. Also interesting was the passionate reaction of John Easterby claiming that we, journalists, have the responsibility to fight that kind of artistic and elitist ‘‘bullshit’’ because the mandate of photojournalism is to talk to the people, to be understood by both the labor class and the Premier of the country. I suppose that the comment would make Fraser smile. Is it not the purpose of his work to be controversial? In my point of view, diversity is the better way to stimulate reflection, creativity, intelligence, imagination, etc.

Explore Downtown













This was a random project that was not really held together by any concept other than documenting whatever I find to be aesthetic, funny, humanist or journalistic along my way in the city: animals, portraits, tourists taking pictures, people working, walking or loitering, etc.

Street lament



Those pictures are details of the memorial made for Ariana at the location of the “accident.” I believe that the thoughts expressed by Ariana’s afflicted community speak for themselves. The absence of wealth, the harsh aesthetic, the dialect of the language and the ephemeral nature of it all somewhat communicate the reality of street life.