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Jim
An Approach to Street Photography by Mitch Alland
It is only three years ago that I started to do street photography: before that I photographed landscapes, buildings, objects, and sometimes made portraits of people I knew; and the exhibition that I had in Bangkok in December 2003 was of Thai temples, without people in any of the pictures.
Indeed, like many other people, I felt uncomfortable photographing strangers in the street and saw no purpose in doing so.
In 1993 when I participated in his workshop on colour photography in Tuscany, Sam Abell told me at the end of ten days, "You're certainly not a street photographer."
He was right.
I wasn't.
Mitch Alland
