STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
by
RUUD LEEUW
My focus in photography, as well as other interests, shifts and changes..
Around 2012 I became more interested in photography's 'greats' and found myself more frequently visiting photo exhibitions and buying photobooks.
Photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, John Margolies, Arnold Newman, Anton Corbijn, Steve McCurry, Werner Bischof, Annie Leibovitz, Marc Riboud, et cetera, captured my interest. Photobooks were bought and in subsequent years I started actively collecting 'art' photobooks, many of them secondhand.
Gradually I found myself less interested in portraits and landscapes and my interest evolved to documentary, photojournalism and streetphotography.
'Humanist Photography' (wikipedia) offers a wide range of photography.
In the last two years streetphotography began to take up a large portion of my travel photography. In 2016 I bought a Fujifilm X100T camera for dedicated 'streetphotography'. Soon replaced by a Panasonic Lumix G (DMC-GX80) and in 2020 I bought a secondhand Leica Q to compare it with theGX-80.
The images were shared on my travel pages, Blog and Flickr & Facebook accounts. In Sep.2016 I started this page, a gallery of such images I am most pleased with myself. In August 2020 I created a colour page of this work.
And followed by Photographers & musicians (street) in March 2021.
"There is nothing in the world that does not have a decisive moment" -Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Seeing is the paradise of the soul"
-Pietro Spanno, eye doctor, elected Pope in 1276
"The basic belief in art, is the basic belief in the goodness of mankind" -Vladimir Nabokov
"I’ve always said that the experience of taking the images is more important than the image itself." -Phil Penman
"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world picturesque." -Susan Sontag, 1977
In Sep.2021 I bought a Leica M-P (Typ 240) to experience Leica rangefinder photography. By 2023 my Leica equipment had grown to a Leica Q2 Reporter and a Leica M10-P (w/ 1958 Summicron 50 & 1968 35).
My About_me has more details about my evolving photography and equipment.
|
FOR MY SUBJECTS IN STREETPHOTOGRAPHY USE THE INDEX PAGE OR BELOW LINKS
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY (B&W) | STREETS IN COLOUR | EARLY YEARS | PHOTOGRAPHERS & MUSICIANS
|
MARCH (2025)
KEUKENHOF
LEICA M10-P w/ SUMMICRON 2/50 (II) RIGID | LISSE 30MAR2025
-+|+-
HALFVASTEN ANGERLO 2025 | CARNAVAL GELDERLAND
Even before the parade started I asked this couple to pose for me, for my interest in China.
The theme of their group was 'Chinese New Year', all dressed like this. Never got their names (EMAIL)
I went to crouching on one knee so often, the next day I had suffering hamstrings!
A big THANK YOU to all the groups posing for me!
SONY A7IV w/ 4/24-105 G OSS + CANON GX5 Mark II | 23MAR2025 ANGERLO
|
FEBRUARY (2025)
NIJMEGEN
LEICA Q2 w/ SUMMICROM 1.7/28mm
STRTFSTVL @ULFT
STRTFSTVL - Streetfestival @Ulft 2-2025.
'Checkpoint Henry, by Hendrik & Co. In times of migration and increasing urge for control, this is the world's
smallest customs post. Checkpoint
Henry is a one-man performance full of fantasy and interaction.
For the 'circus acts' see MyBlog_2025Q1 which also has the link to the folder on Flickr.com
A very young 'Official Photographer' to this event ☺
Roman Škadra ('Absurd Hero') is a Slovak artist living and working in Berlin
www.romanskadra.com
SONY A71V w/ SONY FE 4/24-105 + FE 4/70-200
| ULFT 23FEB2025
|
JANUARY (2025)
WINTERLIGHTS (18_19January) at 's-HEERENBERG
Castle Huis Bergh, Gelderland
A spooky scene was created in the church, with mist and a show of floodlights
A ghostly shadow in the castle garden
See also MyBlog_2025q1 for details |
DECEMBER
AMSTERDAM
That day I had (re)acquired a Sony RX10 IV. Mirrored in the back of a van.
Zen
Vondelpark
Ice skating near the Rijksmuseum
SONY RX10 IV | 10DEC2024
LEICA Q2 | 10DEC2024
START OF CHRISTMAS 2024 ON THE TOWN'S SQUARE
Stalls selling Christmas local products as well as soup ('snert') and glühwein to stay warm
Fascinated by fire: who isn't!
Enjoying warm peasoup, here called 'erwtensoep' a.k.a. 'snert' for short.
|
OCTOBRE
AMSTERDAM
Visiting the Amsterdam City Archives for photo exposition
The restless years 1970-1990 in Amsterdam: housing 'refurbished', demolition, real estate speculation, protest...
The work of Ed van der Elsken, Bertien van Manen, Maya Pejic and dozens of other documentary photographers
depict a unique look at a turbulent period of 20 years, in which the city of Amsterdam underwent radical changes.
Arms crossed...
WALKABOUT
Metro - Vijzelgracht stop, exit Prinsengracht
Essentials - fashion statement or existentialisme?
LEICA Q2 REPORTER / AMSTERDAM 20OCT24
|
SEPTEMBER
HERNEN CASTLE VINTAGE MARKET ('BROCANTE')
I have a sense for the macabre! Btw, this is not a real skeleton but one with numbers for educational purposes.
One of the volunteers of Hernen Castle. Hurrah for the volunteers!
LEICA Q2 REPORTER | HERNEN, 29SEP24
DAHLIA FLOWER CORSO | DUTCH CULTURE
Several large floats had reenactors to play out a scene
The lion of Lichtenvoorde
The cannibal, the 'bulbs' have reenactors playing out prisoners..
One of the most impressive I thought!
Anubis and a priestess in reverence..
SONY A7 IV w/ SONY FE 4/24-105 G OSS | LICHTENVOORDE 08SEP2024
-+|+-
VINTAGE TRAINS
SONY A7 IV w/ SONY FE 4/24-105 G OSS | BEEKBERGEN, 07SEP2024
VINTAGE ('BROCANTE') MARKET
Browsing makes hungry
Approached her for her 'western wear'...
LEICA Q2 | BRUMMEN @'VROOLIJKE FRANS'
- 01SEP24
|
AUGUST
FOTOGRAFICA MARKET
Vintage cameras and lenses, photographs and photobooks & magazines
Also time to exchange camera knowledge
LEICA M10-P w/ SUMMICRON 2/35 ASPH | DOESBURG 18AUG2024
BROCANTE (VINTAGE) MARKET
LEICA M10-P w/ SUMMICRON 2/35 ASPH | KASTEEL MIDDACHTEN, DE STEEG - 11AUG24
DEVENTER BOOKMARKET
Deventer bookmarket 04Aug24
The famous bookmarket can drain your energy
More tiredness exploring the many bookstalls
TWO HATS #1
TWO HATS #2
(ALL ABOVE ) LEICA M10-P + SUMMICRON 2/35 / DEVENTER 04AUG24
LEICA Q2 / DEVENTER 04AUG24
|
JULY
ZUTPHEN'S BOOKMARKET
LEICA Q2 | ZUTPHEN,
28JUL2024
BRUMMEN'S BOOKMARKET
LEICA Q2 w/SUMMICRON 28/1.7
| BRUMMEN, 29JUN24
|
MAY
CASTLE VORDEN, VINTAGE MARKET
LEICA Q2 | VORDEN, 20MAY2024
WOUDRICHEM, N.BRABANT (NL)
Woudrichem, fortified town and fish baking competition (yearly tradition on Ascension Day)
I met this original & friendly fisherman, retired but still living locally on his boat.
LEICA Q2 | WOUDRICHEM, 09MAY2024
|
APRIL
KONINGSDAG (THE KING'S BIRTHDAY APRIL 27TH)
Free market on the King's birthday, 27Apr24 @Velp
Free market on the King's birthday, 27Apr24
The way he was playing his trumpet I thought it small wonder he's selling it!
SONY A7IV w/ ZEISS 2.8/35 | VELP 27APR24
WAGENINGSE BOEKENMARKT (BOOKMARKET)
Modest is size, this bookmarket, but we got home with some nice results.
To buy or not to buy, that's the question...
LEICA Q2 | WAGENINGEN 20APR2024
|
MARCH 2024
ZILVEREN CAMERA 2023 WINNER SAKIR KHADER| PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD EXHIBITION
SONY A7IV w/ FE 2.8/35 | HILVERSUM 10MAR24
 MyBlog2024Q1
HALFVASTEN CARNIVAL PARADE ANGERLO | CULTURE DUTCH TRADITION
Huge number of floats and people in carnival costumes
Obscured by smoke
One of the actualities in the media is the growing number of wolves in The Netherlands
SONY A7 IV +FE 4/24-105
G OSS | ANGERLO 03FEB24
|
FEBRUARY
SEA LIFE Oberhausen
PANASONIC GX80 | 28FEB24
LEICA Q2 w/SUMMICRON 28/1.7
| ENSCHEDE, 17FEB24
CARNIVAL KICK OFF 2024
Finger pointing..
 CV De Bloaspipkes & De Narrenkappen, on parade
CANON R6 +24-105/4 L | VELP, 11FEB24
|
JANUARY
IN PASSING
LEICA Q2 | THE HAGUE 27JAN24
|
Created: 16-Sep-2016
|
