Heavy Load

Classic 20th century street photography in the 21st century: street photography is a timeless genre but times change and people on the street evolve. Work of early 20th century pioneers, Eugène Atget and Henri Cartier-Bresson continue to inspire photographers to this day. Shooting the streets, I take my lead from Atget’s urban documentary photography and I pursue Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment” but today’s compelling image needs to say “today” not yesterday. Cars have replaced horses and nothing else has changed the “look” of the street more than the cell phone. Street photography tradition lives on in unmanipulated, unromanticized images of real people in their everyday lives, but isolation, self-absorption and abandonment of privacy that are hallmarks of today’s hyper-connected world are expressed in the posture and concentration of people indifferent to the street life around them.