Simon Hogsberg – Street Photographer<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a long tradition of ‘street photography’. Many motives of the photographers, from style, to human emotions. Descriptions of us as animals, with our traits and interactions.<\/p>\n
But, if you want a study of total alienation of city life, then I think that you need look no further than this chap! I think the work really scary, and provocative.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/simonhoegsberg.com<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n Pictures of pedestrians at Marble Arch. London All images are taken over a period of one year from early Summer, 2001 to late Spring, 2002 and apart from the portraits taken during the summer period, all pictures are taken from the same spot 3 meters from the corner of Edgware Road and Oxford Street. <\/p>\n None of the photographs had been set up but are all snapshots of pedestrians who happened to walk into the field of view.<\/p>\n Ther’s a story about a newspaper that printed a photo of a crowd of people starring towards the lens of a camera, with fear, sadness and apparent horror in their faces. The caption asked what are they looking at.<\/p>\n Nothing much it turned out. they were just commuters waiting for the lights to change on their way to work. Simons work shows us that those expressions are universal. <\/p>\n Scary eh?<\/p>\n I can’t tell you how fundamentally, I hate London. This is why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simon Hogsberg – Street Photographer There is a long tradition of ‘street photography’. Many motives of the photographers, from style, to human emotions. Descriptions of us as animals, with our traits and interactions. But, if you want a study of … Continue reading
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Photographs shown on his site have all been taken within the confined space of a 30 metres long strip of sidewalk on Edgeware Road, Marble Arch, London. <\/p>\n