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For today’s inspiration fix I’m gonna let you in on the Inspiring black and white street photography of Rui Palha. Born in April 1953, Portugal, and living in Lisbon.
Rui has been into photography since the age of 14. He’s a low profile street photographer inspired by great photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliot Erwitt and Doisneau.
Rui believes that for a person to be able to consider themselves a ture street photographer, they should love and respect the street people, the main actors of the street stage.
When Rui was asked why he always goes with black and white for his street photography, this is what he had to say:
Always black and white, of course. No colour no lie. If you look at a black and white photograph, and if you feel something pleasant or if you like it a lot it’s because the photograph is telling you something without artifices or distractions and, for sure, the photograph is good.
Sometimes a colour photo is appealing just because the combination of the colours is beautiful. This doesn’t mean that I don’t like colour photos. There are great photo-reporters using colours. But I only use black and white.
This also reminds of a great saying by Ted Grant:
When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!
Just take a look at Rui’s photography. Isn’t he a street god or what?!!
My name is Diana Eftaiha. I'm a photographer, web developer, and founder of thedphoto.com photoblog. you can follow me on twitter @graceofrox, or drop me an email to say hi at diana@thedphoto.com =)
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I saw this post on iphone’s reader and came here to do the comment
(by the way, as a blog owner, i hate those readers because this, the readers turns people into watchers =/)
WONDERFUL job his man do!
Congratulations, for him and for you because of the blog!
His photos remember me a very nice and professional photographer here in Brazil, called Evandro Teixeira, look at his job!
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=&q=evandro+teixeira&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=tWE7TMLiBoe0uAfmrqiYBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQsAQwAw
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thank you Rafael for taking the effort to comment. Rui’s photography is indeed amazing i 100% agree with you. you see beautiful black and white street photos all the time and some are really great but this guy’s work is nothing less than FINE ART!!
oh and thanks for the link. Evandro’s photography is brilliant as well i think i’ll contact him to showcase his work as well. thank you for pointing that out to me =)
great and very inspirring Rui…as you just know
congrats for your presentation here
F.
Some real nice work here! If u get a moment
ck out my 70’s street photography…
nice work Robert. thanks for sharing it with us =)
Thank you Rafael for the words and for the link.
Thank you Diana for your simpathy.
Thank you Fulvio.
Nicely done work, Robert.
thank you Rui for inspiring us =)
Thanks for the introduction to a true master of the craft. I couldn’t even make it through all his photos this first time looking through- I was too overwhelmed! Thanks for the post, I’ll be back for sure!
thank you aran for the lovely note im very happy you enjoyed the post =)
Thank you Aran.
The beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder…