Ashok Verma in "Childhood Games": Street portrayals of your message to others

Ashok Verma: "Street photography needs a meditation queen."

"Street photography is your inner voice. It is your message to others, when you are outside the studio." With these simple words, Indian photographer Ashok Verma expressed his concept of street photography, this art which he considers important to create a story from real life, but it is strange and unfamiliar Therefore, it needs - he says - a moment of psychological preparation, a moment of reflection, and more than that, self-training to anticipate the exciting and strange moments.

This came during a dialogue session under the title "Childhood Games". Verma said: "Photography in the street is a queen that resembles meditation, because you are in a different world through which you create something new dazzling, attractive and automatic." The snapshot needs a simple camera, and it may need more technical lenses, but what is important for Verma is the time before taking the photo on the street, those small moments that do not exceed a fraction of a second, when he decides to take the photo.

Verma presented several elements that a professional photographer would need to pursue his artistic career, most notably patience, how to deal with photographic tools, where and when the image was taken, and expectations that require special skill for the photographer to invest in.

Fermat stresses an important element of capturing the image related to knowledge of human behavior, tracking and understanding body language, and what will happen to the person you want to take a picture of in the next moment, such as expecting that he will jump, or perform a strange and unusual act.

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