Joel Meyerowitz

He was one of the first photographers who tried to express the urban street landscape in the way of colour photography. As an early advocate of colour photography, he played an essential role in changing people’s attitude towards colour photography. Few photographers, like him, have perfect eyes that capture unexpected and strange moments in everyday life.

His subjects often captured in a fraction of a second, but they seem to create under the careful arrangement. All this made him create some of the most extraordinary and unique works in the history of photography. “I don’t take pictures for the sake of taking pictures, but to feel a state of being and consciousness in these scenes,” he said. In a way, my work is a record of every epiphany in my life. “