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II wouldn't say that. I'd say the title is very unfortunate, not because I am shocked but because I firmly believe a phtograph's interpretation should be up to the viewer, it's not the role of the photographer to tell people how they should interpret it. Something like Street Name - Year would be much better imo. I don't like titles that are oriented because they seem to imply the viewer is not intelligent enough to make a link on his own about what's happening, so he needs the help of the pohotgrapher to explain him what it's about.
 
Now if one discards the title, he can imagine anything. Would it be called "dreaming about fine lingerie" people would react differently. I know a man from poland who would find this woman a bit underweight. It's all a matter of personal perception and interpretation.
 
I would argue that it's really a shame that some people think one should not photograph fat people because it's disrepectful, or children because it's creepy.
 
If the viewer has issues in his head and thinks immediatly about sex when seing children, or about morbidity when seing overweight people it is entirely HIS problem, not the photographer's and certainly not mine. I don't mind my children being photographed because they are part of an interresting scene or just because they are beautiful.
 
Why could only beautiful slim women, flowers, sunsets and men in suits be photographed? How is that any more sane and democratic than photographing everyone, the homeless included?
 
How is photographing the ass of a beautiful woman next to the rear of a race car and call it "nice bottoms" less exploitative than to photograph a not-so-slim one next to a scrawny mannequin and call it "slender dreams"? It is not. It's all about perception and street photography is often about juxtapositions of things that work in the picture without necessarily having anything to do in real life (here we can't even be sure that the woman is looking at the mannequin due to the angle, that made the picture work in the first place)
 
The title is unfortunate but the picture does not discredit street photography which is exploiting life to make interresting pictures imo. Somehow nobody has risen a concern about the '"out of sync" picture capturing a woman that one could depict as being probably anorexic.

Hey there
 
i´m pleased to see your images!
 
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Hi Stefan, thanks for your comments
 
Finally somebody has thought about the images!
 
Ok, here's my reply:
 
The 4 guys behind the bench were not posed. 
 
None of my photos are ever posed, nor are they cropped, straightened or manipulated in any way.
 
Those guys were sheltering from the snow under a tree, behind a bench.  I had passed that bench hundreds of times and never seen the graffiti, because there were always people sitting there.  I saw the guys from 50 metres away, and as I drew level I turned, went down on one knee, and shot... and at that moment I saw the graffiti for the first time.  The graffiti is a protest against the metal bars Verona has placed on all benches to stop homeless people sleeping on them.
 
The bus and the wheelchair.... the bus won, the driver refused to move to one side, and the pavements were too narrow for Cristian to mount, so he had to turn around and exit the road with the bus following.  At that point, to add insult to injury, a police woman on point duty, held her hand up and made him stop to give way to traffic coming the other way.... I have that photo too
 
The old man sitting in the street was not a performer.
He was very still, and the people didn't understand, and they believed he was dead.... so the photo shows human reaction... instead of trying to help, they all just stared at him with disgust / horror / fear.
 
Dumitru, shaving in the park, is Romanian.  He comes to Italy for 6 months every year.  He has a nice house and family in Romania, but he chooses to live rough in Italy for 6 months and busk with his guitar and send the money he earns home, where it keeps his family in luxury, and where it will support him when he returns for the winter.  Those buskers earn between 100 and 200 euros a day.
 
Nutella.  Cause and effect.  Instead of selling the fried donuts, she was eating them. 
 
Nun kissing priest, full on the lips, for over 10 seconds - very early on a Sunday morning, very few people around, two other priests seemingly looking out for them.
 
The boy playing the violin.... Patrizio.... 9 years old.  I asked his "minder" why he wasn't at school, and she told me that he has to work because he is clever, and can earn more money than she can.  They are Rom.  He was capable of playing 40 seconds of one classical work, and then demanding money.  It was slave labour.  I spoke to both of them, the woman was proud of what she was doing, but Patrizio wasn't happy.
 
In this series, the only truly homeless person is the lady with the blankets.  It was taken on a Christmas eve morning, very early, in Verona.  I didn't speak her language, and she didn't speak any of mine, but she enjoyed a good breakfast, and hopefully had a better Christmas than she was expecting.
 
It's nice to finally see people think about the images, thank you

Can we try to keep this from becoming a discussion purely about homeless people?

Shooting the homeless and poor is cliché and don't make their situation any better. In my opinion it's kinda exploitation of poverty. Just my 2ct.

I'm waiting patiently for the Pro-2 too.
 
But I have a feeling the Pro-1 will be a future classic, and a camera in demand used for decades.
Personally, I feel good that I have secured one..
 
The more technically capable these bodies become, the more we as photographers seem to be chasing soul.
I think my X-T1 probably takes better photos. But it's the Pro-1 that I am in love with.
The T-1 will be sold when the Pro-2 is released.
 
The Pro-1 is a "keeper" for me.
 
j.

The Pro1 is still fantastic . And it will remain so for a long time . I bought a second , because prices are so silly . I have both other two cameras too - but the Pro1 is my favorite when I want to have fun. I take the T1, when object are moving around. The 100T , when discretion is required . And the Pro1 with XF56, if I want to relax.