Walking the streets of New Delhi, India

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"If your photos aren't good enough, you haven't gotten close enough." It is possibly the most famous and accurate phrase of Frank Capa. This photo and the series I did in the Chandni Chowk market in the old city of Delhi are inspired by that idea. We got on a rickshaw to go through the narrow streets of the market. Everything was hectic and chaotic, at least to our western eyes. And besides, everything happened a few centimeters from the camera. I prepared myself for what was coming by mounting an extreme wide lens (14mm) and setting it to manual with high speed (1/1000) and an aperture of F8. The ISO was the only thing I left on auto (my Nikon Z6's sensor gives amazing results when it comes to low noise, even at very high ISO).
Knowing that I was going to get a super-wide view, I strategically positioned the camera so that I didn't have to look at the lens or the screen. I had to anticipate what was going to happen and frame it with my mind.

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In street photography, the secret lies in anticipating what is going to happen and preparing to freeze a unique moment, a frame capable of narrating an entire film. The difficulty is not to interrupt reality with the intrusion of the camera. At the moment in which the protagonists are aware that they are being photographed, everything falls apart and the life story vanishes. That is why it is so important that the photographer becomes part of the landscape, camouflage himself and go unnoticed.
In this photo of the market in the old city of Delhi, I was riding in a richshaw with the camera resting on my lap, an extreme wide angle lens (16mm) and the camera in manual with a speed of 1/1000 s and an aperture of F8, leaving the ISO in automatic mode. I saw the scene 3 seconds before, I mentally composed knowing how the camera would react and I shot at the right moment, without looking at the scene or the camera.

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Tags:   Delhi New market street photography streetphotography people portrait india capital life worker workers social documentary

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