Street Photography | People in Paris

A collection of street photography: portraits of strangers on corners or through windows.

Some people people-watch, sitting on street corners or at cafe tables. A select few reach for a note book and sketch away, creating characters with stories and adventures imagined. Yet, I find there is a frustrating sense of inactivity involved in this process, feeling stuck and still with one single frame in which to capture.

Thats why I take to the streets. I walk and delight in the split-second moments that a 50mm lens affords me to capture. With street photography, I’m no longer observing but stumbling upon a moment – an exchange and interaction. Some of my subjects notice. Others will maybe never know. All are captured with the intent of dignity.

The French, I find, are more expressive of their personality. Each individual follows a fashion of their own style and lives out their unique moment, perfectly intertwined within habitual routine.

All street photography images subject to copyright –  © Eleanor Hyde 2022

More from France here.

More street photography: ‘Humans of Japan’ here, or Camden Streets here.

A French artist wearing a beret sketches a portrait in the street
a woman in a pink dress walks a large grey Great Dane dog through a large French square

*Disclaimer: One or two of these were shot in Bordeaux, although the majority were from the streets of Paris.

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