Russell Scott-Skinner Street Photography
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18 May 2011

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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographic Projects

Title - ‘Street Photography.’

Theme - People, their lives, interactions and activity shot in a natural and un posed way.

Artist’s Comments - “I love street photography and capturing a location completely devote of posing and as natural as possible, when people are un aware is when they’re most fascinating. I hold my hands up it’s a very nosey art form but it’s fascinating putting your own spin on what’s happening. The trick is to capture people unaware because as soon as anyone sees a camera pointed near them they lock up, forming a block onto that privileged view and  hiding that glimpse into their lives, their character, the inter actions and the feel of that place in time.”

Title - ‘Homeless?’

Artist’s Comments - “His waiting busk is nervously mocking the badly fitting suit, while city shoes without polish argue with lights reflection from the sky. His only company is isolated objects where all too quickly he finds friendship in their cold unforgiving steal.”

Title - ‘Old Hunter’

Artist’s Comments - “I pity them! Sitting naked to the world, no feathered modesty just curling from the heat. As mouths walk by and plates wait hungrily. No challenge or hunt, be gone their pride for I protect them gently,  to the last, where sadly you can still feel whispers of their soul reside.”

Title - ‘No snarl or snap’

Artist’s Comments - “By accident I caught your snarl and I feel I shouldn’t be here but my nosey nature is stronger and cannot help wonders why? Why that snarl and snap for a tiny split second? I’ll have to never know! Was it a husband’s lover you met that day? A sister or friend lost by yourself? Or maybe a twist in your character to undo one day, frustration seems here, or just an imbalanced harmony. I’ll never know, but in my heart I just hope, that a facial expression simply lost his way.”

Title - ‘Portable Home.’

Artist’s Comments - “You close the door building your temporary home to buy time back into your personal world. For coins drop life into personal space making it so publicly private. Where eyes lose focus into that cold buttoned steal like a car full of rage who silently screams. You’ve shouted out past frustration to now just listen with hope, but your heart holds pessimism for sorrow to grow.”

Title - ‘Heading Home’

Artist’s Comments - “A cold desert, he batters our coats trying to mug and fight us for heat. He’s desperate he is for us to be as lonely and cold as him! But our daily dialects entertain his pity, he tries to drive us to sorrow like him. But we visit more than most, knowing we are your only friends. Unlike the wind and wet we still have our home, what’s more we have love waiting as the true warmth, but you won’t let people in to show. But jealous grey day you’re far too scared, so all we can do is leave his sorrow to him.”