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The Street Portrait and Comfort Zones

Pat Green / October 2, 2021

What comfort levels can you push for growth? What is your comfort zone? Is it better to stay in your comfort zone or do you grow outside the comfort zone?

There are many different sub categories to street photography. My favorites are unobtrusive street photography and the street portrait. Unobtrusive street photography is also known as candid street photography and has overlap with photojournalism and documentary photography. It is in this realm my inner storyteller comes out. The art in this is choosing your subjects and anticipating the moment, For me this heightens my senses, forces me to be present. Robert Doisneau and

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Expectations Priorities and PDF Editions

June 3, 2021

We are proud to announce the new book, Portraits of Expectations: Coping Beauty, is now available as a PDF version. This was not the original intention of book due to expectations, but there was a shift in priorities that overruled the expectations. This is as it should be. 

You can get it by going to the Zines page of this website. 

The idea of a conventional photobook contains a level of prestige, but more important than that is the message and the story.  This is a story that is about a very important subject and was beautifully and powerfully delivered. 

Mental health does not care what your race, sexuality, gender, or income level you are at. The idea of a book edition and a magazine edition

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