I love the element of chance that comes with images like these as searching for the next shot allows for experiencing and exploring the world with a bit of serendipity.
On the flip side, there is an intrusive element of these sorts of photos. It’s often ideal to be invisible to the subject to capture that decisive moment that Henri Cartier-Bresson made famous. The challenge for me is balancing that intrusive nature versus any expectations of privacy in a public setting.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. - Salman Rushdie
In street photography, there’s no hiding. You’re out in the middle of the action and have to rely on your own judgement, ability, and courage as a photographer to make a meaningful photograph. - Alex Webb
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. Oop! That Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. - Elliott Erwitt
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. - Susan Sontag