A Smattering of Street Photographers

Richard Ford is an Australian photographer and entrepreneur who lives in Beijing. Though he calls photography just a hobby, he seems to be a pretty intense hobbyist who carries his camera with him everywhere. I find myself very drawn to the spatial composition of his photos, as well as to the amusing and intriguing moments of humanity he seems to find.







I can't seem to find much information about this particular Claire Martin...but I enjoy the expressiveness of the peoples' faces and/or gestures in her portraits. There is often a soft, pensive qualities to her pictures; in general, she seems to be drawn to moments of calm or suspension or quietness (judging from her collection). She captures an elusive quality in the subjects, and the intriguing sensation that there is something more and deeper that what is seen. (This feeling does seem to match the testimonial on her Flickr account which compliments her sensitivity and gentleness in her work.)






Brian Soko is a street photographer in Chicago who focuses on people as subjects. I'm very attracted to his sensitivity to lighting, and his strong sense of surface and depth. He also has a talent for capturing interesting, unusual visual perspectives of people, as well as momentary relationships of people literally passing each other on the street. Photographs of the latter sort in particular have a very narrative quality to them, even if the narrative is purely spatial or through value contrast.