Photograph the Familiar

Is your photography starting to feel like the movie, Groundhog Day? Are you shooting the same subject over and over and over? If so, you’re gonna love episode 33 of Street Shots which is all about “finding novelty in the familiar.” Most photographers know that feeling of seeing something familiar and thinking, ‘been there, done that.’ And while sometimes letting an image go can create an opportunity to capture something else entirely, sometimes the challenge is finding novelty in the familiar. How might you discover a fresh perspective? This episode offers some hints through reference to Antonio’s images of the Brooklyn Bridge and Tom’s documentation of social protest.

Hotel worker protest in Tempe, AZ. (photo by Tom Martinez)

Yemen war protest, NYC (photo by Tom Martinez)

Brooklyn Bridge (photo by Antonio M. Rosario)

Locks on the Brooklyn Bridge (photo by Antonio M. Rosario)

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