Learning Street Photography with Valérie Jardin

By serendipitous coincidence I saw a Facebook post about this Guardian article while listening to the latest episode of Valérie Jardin's podcast Hit the Streets. In the article Anita Chaudhuri relates what it was like to be mentored in street photography in Paris, and subsequently one-on-one online.

It’s a Sunday morning and I’m on Rue Mouffetard, a bustling market street in Paris, skulking behind a pyramid of nectarines. My sights are set on a fluffy black poodle nuzzling the ankles of its owner, a stripey-trousered woman of a certain age. Raising my camera to my eye, I risk a few furtive shots but, irritatingly, the poodle keeps scampering out of the frame. Its mistress is engaged in animated banter with a guy tending a rack of roast chickens. Promising. But, spying the camera, he throws his hands in front of his face.

There are many photography groups and pages on Facebook, but members of the Hit the Streets With Valérie Jardin Facebook group consistently post some of the most interesting examples of street photography and the group is well worth following.