Author Archives: Chris Athanasiadis

Every time I go to a city center, I feel at home in the chaos and endless possibilities. Walkability and culture. Maybe it isn’t time for the East Coast. Downtown Los Angeles has so much potential for street photography. It’s a grimy and rough place. For these reasons, it’s not well documented. There’s a fewContinue reading “Craving A City”

Study your own photography, not the masters. The masters won’t help you tweak your style. Take the above photo for example. I like the bubble exploding against the crushed blacks. This is just an okay photo, but next time I’ll know to simplify the scene. I’d like to have less background clutter which can easilyContinue reading “Study Your Photos”

On a HC black and white jpeg in some good lighting. What looks better?

Ideally it’s non photographers. People who have no clue what street photography is. I have zero desire for my photos to be judged by other photographers. To submit my work for review to my contemporaries. I don’t care about their opinions. A carpenter, teacher or burger flipper is my audience.

Perfect place to practice street photography. Anyone I’ve shot with here says the same thing. The beach is hard to shoot at. I think it’s the lack of interesting light bouncing off tall buildings, everything is wide open. Compositions are more difficult. Backgrounds are messy. A lot of the time there’s isn’t much going on.Continue reading “Santa Monica Training Wheels”

Not really. I’m pretty emotionally detached. I shoot so much that my keepers are quickly forgotten until I scroll through the archive.