Hellllooo again !!
I played around with a few different ideas ideas for what I wanted to do with my final but the one thing that was common throughout all of my ideas was a focus on the human experience. This crazy thing we call existence is something I’ve been contemplating a lot so I wanted to my project to simply reflect that !
The first thing that came to mind when I thought of photographing the human experience was street photography. Thematically inspired by the viral Instagram account @humansofny but stylistically inspired by more contemporary NYC Street Photographers I decided to center my final project around capturing the experience of one day in the city. I wanted to play a very ‘Mark Cohen from RENT’ role throughout the day and document my friends, the day, the environment, and the experience. I tried to merge more casual street photography styles with the type of environmental portraiture that I am used to.
For reference, here are three instagram accounts that document the human experience through street photography: