Shopping survival guide

Incipit:
 How many of us on weekends are forced to go shopping with their girlfriend? I am one of those.
Enter all the stores, look at all the women's collections, fall winter, spring summer ... and if you're lucky maybe a jump in the men's department you do it too. Here my project begins.
 Having to live with the weekend shopping, I started to bring the camera with me. At the beginning photographing Verona and its foreshortening but I have a problem with my city ... I can't take pictures of it! Yes I know, it is a beautiful city full of things to see and to photograph but I just can't do it… and my passion is street photography. Then I experimented with the "from the hip photography" and what can I say, the style immediately won me over. Let’s be clear, most of the time the shots do not succeed, it's a difficult technique to manage, you don’t have control of the scene… it has a lot of cons as a photographic style… but when the shot comes out well it gives you a sense of naturalness that you can’t have pointing the camera towards the subject, especially using a fixed 18 or 23 mm lens. So while my girlfriend was going to shops, I was walking around the streets of Verona, photographing people and situations that seemed interesting to me. Now we have reached the point where I want to go shopping and it ‘s my girlfriend who doesn’t want to go anymore. Here's a good trick to survive weekend shopping :) What I would like to create, over time, is a sort of “photo-docu-project” about Verona and its people, natural and without too many frills. Regarding the photographic technique used, I like to quote a phrase from one of my favorite photographers, Daido Moriyama: “…I wish to take photographs freely, without technical restrictions. For example, I take most of my snapshots from a moving car, or without looking through the viewfinder when I am on foot. You might say I take photographs not only with my eyes, but with my entire body.” The project itself was born in 2014 and is still in progress. I live in Verona, I'm 35 and I love photography, especially street. Lorenzo Simbeni