I’ve always been bothered by the term ‘Street Photography’. I don’t particularly like being referred to as a ‘street photographer’.
I am a photographer.
If I have to put an adjective in front of it, I’ve always favored ‘Documentary’ to ‘Street’. Today it occurred to me that the proper term should be ‘Narrative’.
As described in Wikipedia:
Narrative photography is the idea that photographs can be used to tell a story.
Whether my photographs are taken on the streets or at the beach, whether they include people or not, as long as they trigger the imagination of the viewer they qualify as ‘Narrative Photographs’.
That was my random thought of the day!
Valérie