Xavier Ferrer Chust
Urban Chronicles
Urban Chronicles
Street Photography is a genre whose essence seems very simple: taking photographs in the street, however, this definition detracts from all its established canons. We can assume that a street photograph must be spontaneous, without posing or reframing, where the photographer takes his shots secretly, as Cartier-Bresson said, “Images a la savette”, but great authors who have taken their shots in them places took huge portraits and intervened the scene. Street photography is considered to be a snapshot of daily life in the city and that it is observed and photographed by an image hunter who manages to capture a moment in the broadest sense with his machine. CRÓNICAS URBANAS is a work carried out between the years 1988 to 2002 whose images show what happens on the street, building the scene with the anticipation and personal gaze of the author.
