What we’re about
Hello, welcome to this community!
My name is Flavio Bosi. I am a Street Photographer and Street Photography teacher. I am a course leader for Light and Land. My aim with this group is to create a platform to learn Street Photography in an engaging, active and entertaining way, to practice it and to meet like minded people, to enjoy their company and conversation and make new friends.
Who would participate in the Meetups? If you want to spend a few hours learning and enjoying the experience, this is the right place! If you want to hang out with fellow photographers, this is the place! If you want to shoot some Street photography and get better at it, this is the…ok, you got the gist of it!
I will be leading mini workshops for beginner and intermediate level photographers, but advanced photographers are welcome and can learn as well! The workshops will normally be 2 hours long and will cover a single topic regarding techniques, camera settings, different styles and how to shoot them, what to shoot and why, and all the questions you need answered. At the end of the session we might gather around a pint and have some banter and socialise.
The Meetups will have different formats:
Mini workshop
Styles, specific techniques, framing and composition, what to shoot, how to make an image compelling, etc.
Expert workshops
Occasionally there will be a guest expert in a specific style or a renown or recognised photographer to lead the workshop.
Author themed sessions
We will pick one of the greats (or not so renown but still great) and analyse their work, then go out and try to imitate them to learn!
Critique sessions
This is a really delicate one, but if there is something that taught me the most in the shortest time is having my work critiqued! So there will be critique sessions in which you bring up to ten of your best (or not!) pictures and hear what me and other advanced/expert photographers have to say about it. It may hurt at times but constructive critique will take you to the next level.
After each Meetup it would be great if the participants shared some of their work on the Shoot the Street Facebook group so we can see the results of their efforts, help with constructive critique and see other people’s work to learn from them, their successes and mistakes!
As it says on the tin, the main theme of this group is Street Photography.
Although there are very radical views of how Street photography should or should not be defined, in this group we identify it as candid photography shot in a public place; it does not have to be necessarily street or urban environment. The subject is mostly human or human related, and what we are looking for is behaviour, juxtaposition, telling a story, documenting a funny or interesting situation, never ridiculing or lacking respect for the subject.
The styles of Street Photography can be many and very different, and we will explore each of them on themed sessions.
If you read the whole thing, congratulations! Now come to one of the Meetups and join the community!
You can find some of my work on my own website, www.47-degree.com, and my Instagram handle @flaviobosi.
Also, check the Shoot the Street YouTube channel out, with our series Unscripted on the Sofa: street photography talk with Mark and Flavio!
