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Documentary & Street Photography by Osma Harvilahti – Design. / Visual. #Street

Let's break the mold and embrace the blur! Next time you're out taking photos on the street, bring your tripod and an ND filter, and try some long-exposure street photos.

It's unlikely that Izzy will be able to remember these specific moments with her Grandad when she's much, much older. But she will have these. And that's the nature of documentary family photography. It's a legacy, of sorts.

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ContentsThink About how to Portray their Life beyond the PortraitDo the ResearchVary the Focal LengthConsider Extra Sources for the WriteupThere is still room for artistry in Documentary PhotographyConclusion Documentary photography...

Martin Parr est un photographe anglais, mondialement célèbre pour son approche originale du documentaire. Né en 1952 près de Londres, Martin Parr découvre la photographie à l’âge de 13 ans, encouragé par son grand-père lui-même photographe amateur. Il rejoint la Manchester Polytechnic où il poursuit des études de photographie, et s’intéresse au travail de Bill Brandt et de Cartier Bresson. Très vite, son travail photographique prend pour fil rouge la chronique sociale : il s’intéresse au…

“There simply are not many grand moments of life, and we surely don’t live life in those moments. No, we live life in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms,…

‘In photography, I have found a language that suits me,’ Martine Franck once said. The late documentary and portrait photographer is the subject of a retrospective at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson’s new Paris home in Le Marais