Introduction to Street Photography
Practice on the streets: light and movement
A course by Gustavo Minas , Photographer
About the video: Practice on the streets: light and movement
Overview
“In this class, you will accompany me on a photo tour around the city. I will show how I choose places and situations to photograph, how I usually work a scene, how I position myself in relation to the subject and the light and how I relate to people.”
In this video lesson Gustavo Minas addresses the topic: Practice on the streets: light and movement, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Street Photography. Learn how to create visual narratives out of everyday life and make an urban photoshoot.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this class. i will head out onto the streets of São Paulo to photograph my city essay. I'll start on Rua Augusta and explore the area from there. It will be interesting to revisit this region where I lived for several years. to see what has changed both in my photography and the surroundings. both in the landscape and even in people's behavior. One significant change is that people are wearing masks due to a global pandemic. I will begin shooting around 6:30 in the morning. I enjoy making use of the light when it hits the city frontally. either in the first two hours of the morning or th...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Street Photography
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Gustavo Minas
A course by Gustavo Minas
Gustavo Minas was born in 1981 in Cássia, a small city located in the State of Minas Gerais. After receiving a degree in journalism from the State University of Londrina, he went on to study the language and history of photography under Carlos Moreira in São Paulo and has been photographing the urban scenes of the cities he visits since 2009.
He currently works as a freelance journalist and photographer based in Brasília as well as teaching workshops across Brazil and abroad. In 2017, his photo series Rodoviária won the Picture of the Year LATAM award, in the category "The Future of Cities," and in 2019, he published his first book Maximum Shadow Minimal Light with Edition Lammerhuber, which was also exhibited in Hamburg that same year.
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