Michail

My father handed me my first camera (a rangefinder) when I was 16 but funnily enough I have never shot street photography with that camera. After a long silence, I woke up in 2004 with a couple of digital cameras (one pocket and one DSLR). The pocket one made me discover the beauty of candid photography and my good friend Nikos Papadimitriou confirmed me that it was original work. He was a great fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson and he transmitted me the virus. Street photography took me hostage because it is the photography of freedom, of emancipation, of synergy among human beings and at the same time the total absence of them. It is an attitude against the ordinary, an instinctive response to the unpredictable, a juxtaposition of the unrelated. ​ (michail-photography.eu)