So for the past three years, I’ve been leaning towards abstraction in my Street photography.
I currently live in Philadelphia, my hometown, and I’m blessed to have a big city with lots of people and things to photograph. However, there’s not necessarily interesting moments or scenes to photograph most of the time. It’s a very mundane, every day, city.
And so because of that, the solution to this problem became abstraction for me.
I simply use abstraction as away for me to remain curious. Away for me to photograph the mundane, but still find new ways to articulate things.
And so I think abstraction is a great solution to this problem of the Monday nature of life in Street photography.
And so abstraction becomes something that I can carry with me wherever I may be, no matter if I’m in a bustling marker city, or on the outskirts in a forest.
I use abstraction, not only as a way for me to create a new world and evoke an emotional quality or a mood within the frames, because of course this is my interest, but in a very fundamental practical level, it is a solution to the problem being, how to walk the same mundane lane every single day, but still find something new to photograph, something new to say…