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Wednesday, 6 July 2011

The Streets Of Barcelona

As I recently visited Barcelona I had a little time to do what I normally do in cities - walk around. So I made some street photos. This is back to the basics - all photos are taken with my old 400d+50mm lens.

Barcelona, a lively city with contrasts. With no further ado, I will let the photos speak for themselves.



Elderly Man
Elderly Man

Street Life
Street Life

Street Life
Man with flowers

Sleeping
Sleeping

Sleeping
Sleeping

Night Life
Night Life

Did they argue?
A couple in the streets



My only comment is about the balance between respecting privacy and getting good photos. Somehow it’s easier, at least for me, to have less doubts when being outside of my own city/country. In one way it’s understandable as it means taking pictures of people it’s very very unlikely I will ever meet again; also they will never see the photos. In another way it’s worse, as it can be seen as outsiders exploiting whatever there is to exploit. In that sense I see a value of not treating places differently. But the way forward for me is to photograph more people in the streets of Stockholm (as I already do) rather than abstaining everywhere.

Comments on whether you think I’m crossing any lines I shouldn’t be crossing are very welcome!

All photos taken from my “Best of Barcelona”-album which can be found here.