1. Street Photographer: Matt Stuart
Halima Parhar

2. Life of Stuart Born 1974 in Harrow, North West London
1986 – discovered skateboarding
1994 – interested in Kung Fu and Bruce Lee
Matt’s father introduced the photography
Robert Frank
Henri Cartier-Bresson
18 years of shooting, works in London

3. Stuart’s Style & Method
Finding comedy and liveliness in everyday life
Looking for bursts of colour, still with a touch of grey in the streets
Hyperfocal distance – distance between the camera lens and the object, still in focus and captures fast moving objects
Good control over manual focus

4. Stuart’s Interactions With Society
“I’ve learnt over the years what works and what doesn’t. I keep my elbows in, and after I take a picture I flick my nose—and it’s so quick that people think: Did he just take my picture or did he just scratch his nose? And 95% of people think you scratched your nose.”

5. Stuart’s Well-known Photos

6. My Stuart Inspired Photo

7. Questions
How does street photography enable a person to view society and the world in a different aspect?
What are certain characteristics of street shooting that makes it different from other types of photography?