Getting over your fear of photographing strangers

This is one of my favourite subjects. I love teaching in my workshops as most people feel awkward about approaching people on the streets to photograph them. Through experience, trial and error, I have had the pleasure to understand the psychology of approaching perfect strangers to ask them for a pic and the wonderful joy […]

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I am photographing 1,200 pilgrims, here are the first 200

My name is Matt Palace and I intend to photograph 1,200 pilgrims. “1200 Pilgrims” is a personal project carried out with the intention of photographing 1,200 Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. Individuals from around the world walked this 800km trail over the course of 30 days, as a spiritual retreat. The aim […]

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How to approach strangers on the a street for a portrait

Seeing a random person on the street that you’d love to photograph can rapidly become one of the scariest scenarios out there for many portrait photographers as soon as they start to consider how to approach them.  With “Don’t talk to strangers!” being drummed into us from a very young age, it’s just one of those […]

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