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Sometimes street photography has a static vision: we move, but we try to freeze a gesture, a shadow, someone crossing the street, a detail that catches our eye. But there is another way of looking — one that seeks movement . It’s a form of experimentation, one that allows the scene to loosen a little, to reveal the constant flow of objects and people. Cars passing by, buses sliding through the frame, lights stretching into streaks, people crossing — everything leaves a trace.

Yesterday I attended a talk by Javier Arcenillas (@javierarcenillas). Calling him simply a street photographer would fall short: he is somehow a mix of photojournalism, street photography, somehow an explorer and tinker — he has that impulse that sometimes falls asleep and needs to be awakened. I listened to how he understands photography, and some ideas stayed with me afterwards. He spoke about four archetypes of street photographers —not as rigid categories, but as ways of

Discover how to enter flow in street photography: switch off your mental filter, become invisible, stalk the light and seize the decisive moment

We live surrounded by stimuli. Lights, sounds, faces, conversations, screens… Our mind filters thousands of images and inputs every day without us even being aware of it. It’s a natural defense mechanism — otherwise, we’d be completely overwhelmed by the constant flow of information. Yet sometimes, something slips through that filter — something that makes us turn our head, look twice, something that breaks through our inner patterns. And if we happen to have a camera with us