RE: A Fair People
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Love these photos! I am a huge fan of street photography, as well as monochrome… and fairs! Do you have trouble with people giving you the evil eye when you take their picture without their permission? If I didn’t have that fear I would do a lot more of this type of photography.
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Thank you! I got my start doing street photography amidst the Breonna Taylor protests here in Louisville in 2020, so the evil eye was the least of my concerns at the time. After that it was hard to get too concerned by it. With sensitive/vulnerable groups, folks that might fear for their safety I try to ask first, but otherwise the evil eye is just comes with the territory.
I've posted this photo before but I'm pretty sure it will always be my favorite evil eye photo. I suspect that the evil eye is often what helps make a photo 'pop' for lack of a better word.
There's a documentary, Everybody Street by Cheryl Dunn, that got me interested in street photography. It's about NYC street photographers and some of them get into dealing with the evil eye, I feel like it helped prepare me for dealing with it. I recommend it to anybody interested in street photography, even if it doesn't help with the fear it is lovely inspiration.