Hello, it's Karen from the photography playground welcome back traveling street photography are very suitable for a smartphone, because you have it with you all the time. And because it's a non intrusive camera. in photography, you always choose perspective in the literal sense as in the distance between you and your subject. But you cannot set that apart from the perspective is in a way you view your subject. It's the perspective you're taking on a subject that will become part of the story you're telling. It will also become part of the feelings a photo can evoke.

And it's part of the feelings a specific place as evoked in you. Because ultimately, a photograph should also say something about you. In this series of New York, I focused on making wide angle photos. New York is an overwhelming city where the human scale was a little lost. Don't get me wrong, I love New York, but it's huge. Everything is big and high and large and a lot.

The best way to translate that in an image is to photograph it in a day. And formal style. Because of the scale, it's a city with an anonymous feel to it. So there are hardly people in the photos and when there are people there not recognizable individuals. It is the skill and anonymity of the city I'm trying to convey by photographing from a distance. In this series I made incorrect again I focused on the life industry as I walked through the city to come closer to the actual lives people are living.

The center is very small scale. In a matter of days, you start to recognize people and know your way around town. The city invites you to take a closer look and to become part of the street life. Because of that people play a bigger role in this series. By choosing the medium perspective, the surroundings become as important as the people. It gives the viewer a little peek into the life on the streets of carta haina this series consists of photos I made in Lisbon.

Now you have to know that I know Lisbon very well. I live there I'm not a visitor as I was in New York and Cartagena, and that's showing in this series of street portraits. The people I photographed have become individuals on a level you feel you get to know them a little bit, just by looking at their photo and the things they are doing. They tell little stories about their lives at that moment. They have become the main subject in the photo and the surroundings have become less important. The feelings that are attached to the places are showing in my photographs, New York feels overwhelming and anonymous, gratifying.

I feel sort of cute and human and lesbian I know as the back of my hand. When you choose your perspective, try to create a synergy between the place itself and what the place does to you. I will see you again in the next lecture and Until then, happy photographing