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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: People, Photographs: Urban/Street

A Family

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A Family
A passing family group on the street in Manhattan.

A Family. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.

A passing family group on the street in Manhattan.

As scheduled, it is back to more street photography today. This photograph comes from our late-August visit to Manhattan, which provided us with opportunities to simply go out on walks and observe/absorb the Manhattan vibe. That is, of course, a complex thing, being composed of lots of people, lots of motion, the urban canyons, occasional bits of quiet and stillness, and a lot of things that happen quickly and are gone. The latter, of course, is part of the appeal of street photography.

I recommend urban and street photography to all photographers, including those of you who like think of yourselves and landscape or nature photographers. As a general thing, I think it is good for you and for your photography to step outside your primary genre and to be aware of good photographic work done with subjects quite different than your own. On a very practical level, shooting street forces you to see, think, and react really quickly. Quite often subjects coalesce and disappear in seconds or even fractions of seconds. You don’t have much time to carefully consider, so you work on the basis of instinct. And that is a useful skill to develop, even if you usually work at a more sedate pace. Street also reminds us of how we make photographs of things that we don’t have time to fully evaluate or understand. For example, while I call this photograph “A Family,” I can’t know that it is a family group. And while I might make be tempted to make other assumptions about this trio… I have no way at all of knowing whether I’m right or wrong. It is better, I think, to just ask questions.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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Photographs: Events, Photographs: People

Girls Rule

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Girls Rule
Mom and daughter in pink at the San Jose Women’s March

Girls Rule. San Jose, California. January 21, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Mom and daughter in pink at the San Jose Women’s March

I have shared — and will continue to share more of — my large collection of photographs from events during the weekend of the 2017 Women’s March, including “Bridge Together Golden Gate” on Friday, January 20 and the San Jose Women’s March on Saturday, January 21. All in all, this was a remarkable weekend. In particular the nationwide — and even international — events of the Women’s Walk were, as far as I can tell, unprecedented. On the day after the inauguration of a president whose election has exposed deep divisions in my country, millions of Americans took to the streets to say that things are not OK and that they will not be ignored. And the demonstrations, organized by women, brought more widespread participation than anything like them that I can recall.

My photographs that mostly document the event will be shared in a separate gallery that I posted earlier this weekend. However, some of the photographs have, it seems to me, “legs” as visual images apart from their function as records. I’m going to share some of them as my photographs of the day periodically over the next few weeks. Among the many remarkable things I saw at the Women’s March, there was a kind of torch passing between generations, from an older generation that experienced the struggles around the Vietnam War or even the Civil Rights movement to their daughters and on to granddaughters. I saw numerous groups where all three generations were represented. I photographed this mother and daughter (or so I assume) as the crowd was gathering more than an hour before the march of 25,000 people began.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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