Huck Magazine – With the explosion of digital technology, street photography is the last bastion of image-making that exists free from the careerist trappings of industry. With few barriers to entry, it has become the lingua franca of local culture on a global scale, open to anyone who dares to try their hand.
“Street photography has become one of the most popular and accessible genres within the medium. Smartphones have truly transformed and democratised this genre of photography, into an art form that anyone can participate in,” says Isolde Brielmaier, Guest Curator of the new exhibition, We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets at the International Center of Photography in New York.
For decades, street photography was imagined as the provenance of the urban flâneur set against the ever changing cityscape. A blur of private lives unfolding against the drama and pathos of public space. But as street photography takes root in every corner of the globe, new generations of artists are redefining the possibilities of what the genre can be.
Image: Untitled by Farnaz Damnabi