What Street Photography Taught Me About Getting Out of My Own Way

What Street Photography Taught Me About Getting Out of My Own Way

I spend most of my working life in a controlled environment. Lights on stands, subjects on marks, everything calibrated to within 200 Kelvin of where I want it. The studio is, by design, a place where I impose my vision on the scene. That is literally the job. So when a tutorial about street photography stopped me mid-scroll and made me sit with something uncomfortable, I paid attention. In this Sean Tucker video, filmed in the blue-washed streets of Chefchaouen, Morocco, Tucker unpacks something he calls the narcissism trap in street photography.