Learning from Others: The Workshop as a Creative Compass
A flâneur's reflections on curiosity, courage, and the craft of learning. How a single three-hour street photography workshop in Vancouver in 2012 quietly redirected an entire creative path — and what the teachers since, from Ian MacDonald to Valérie Jardin, Bruce Gilden to Peter Turnley, have offered about seeing, lineage, and momentum.
The Courage to Look: On Fear in Street Photography
Street photography stirs a constellation of human fears — confrontation, judgment, intrusion, legality, ethics, visibility, and the quiet uncertainty of intention. This essay explores why these fears arise, how they shape our presence in public space, and how courage emerges not from fearlessness, but from the willingness to look with openness, sensitivity, and purpose.