Street Photography

The times are progressing, but the minds are a lot narrower, that's about an acquaintance a few months ago.

"Less picnics", perhaps the expression of today's young people who deserve to address the current conditions, which are infecting Indonesians, both young and old. However, in the opinion of the authors, it is not "lack of picnics", a precise expression in addressing the condition, because perhaps those who think narrows are more often "picnics" than those who think are widespread.

According to the author's opinion, the precise expression is the lack of critical thinking and the inability or lack of open-mindedness. Those whose minds are narrowed are usually characterized by the easy phenomenon of receiving a rumor that is truthful and will believe it wholeheartedly, even to be manifested into its everyday behavior. Usually those who are infected with this "disease" always feel that life in this era is a big mistake, maybe even to blame something around it, whether it is system, order or person-by-person.

Funny indeed, but what he believes to be true is not necessarily true. Those infected with this "disease" are those who live with only one frame of mind, saklek, and they are trapped in their own frame of mind. Though many frameworks that are out there that will be able to form a human filler era.

Let's learn to be open-minded from street photography photographers or let's think open-air street photographers. Street Photography or street photography is one of the genres of photography. Street photography is at a glance similar to documentary photography and Photojournalistic. According to Erik Prasetya in On Street Photography, the differences of the three genres of photography include; documentary photograph is characterized by the ability to set / direct a photography activity, prioritize the completeness of the information, objective, and does not give priority to the aesthetics.

Photojournalism or photojournalism is characterized by the presence of high voltage in each photograph, there are important or dramatic events, and requires strong or dramatic elements; This photojournalism can be found for example in newspapers or magazines. While street photograph is characterized by the activity of capturing the authenticity of the atmosphere / emotions of a public space (usually done candid), not prioritizing the completeness of information, prioritizing aesthetics, having low voltage, recording the daily events (banal), the elements can be weak or not dramatic but build a visual composition.

And also in street photography, we must remember that we are human and that we record is the subject, not the object. This concept is according to the opinion of writers such as, humanizing human beings and being fully human before choosing or becoming "this is it". In addition, in street photography, the photographer will always leave with many mindsets. So that the number of mindsets does not close the presence of suspicion. In On Street Photography's book, Erik Prasetya also states that all the frameworks taken by street photography photographers is not a limitation, but aids, and there are always other possibilities.

This is the lesson of a street photography photographer we can apply to our lives, especially us as Indonesian people and part of the world community. Be open!

Lastly, street photographers need to know a lot and be prepared that there are many more that he does not know. This is the right thing for us to apply, always learn a lot and learn a lot because so much we do not know.