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What I Looked for at Basel Pride
I went to Basel Pride, Basel tickt bunt, meaning to avoid the postcard shots. I knew I’d take some anyway; they’re a way of standing close to a community whose rights matter to me. But the picture I was after was a different one: an isolated gesture, a moment of closeness outside the crowd. The…
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Street Photography Techniques: Fishing, Hunting, and Reacting
People talk about street photography techniques as if there were only one: walk around, find a moment, press the shutter. But after enough time on the street you start to notice that you’re not doing one thing at all. You’re doing three: Fishing, Hunting and Reacting. They feel completely different from the inside, they ask different things…
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Street Photography in Basel: A Photographer’s City on the Border
Basel is a quiet city. That’s the first thing people notice while doing street photography in Basel, and the first thing they get wrong. It looks orderly, prosperous, a little reserved, Swiss in all the expected ways. But street photography is the art of paying attention until the surface gives way, and Basel rewards that…
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Behind the Frame: Fallen Angel
It was late afternoon in Basel, the kind of light that has given up its heat but not its color. I had no plan and no expectation, just walking, looking, the way you do when nothing in particular has happened yet. Then I saw the wings. A woman was wearing them: a pair of wings,…
