Street Photography Projects to Spark Your Creativity
Street photography is exciting, unpredictable, and endlessly varied. But there’s a catch: sometimes the sheer openness of it all can feel paralysing. You step out with your camera, look around at the bustle, and suddenly you don’t know where to point the lens. Everything feels too much—or worse, too ordinary. That’s where projects come in. They give you purpose. They narrow the field and sharpen your eye. And importantly, they can be as big or as small as you like. Some projects grow over months, becoming bodies of work. Others are “micro projects” — simple, playful challenges that you can complete in a single afternoon. I was recently part of a conversation about exactly this struggle. The question was: “I’m primarily a street photographer, but I’m struggling to pick projects. Can you suggest five?” The reply was brilliant: practical, fun, and rooted in the everyday reality of being out on the streets with a camera. What follows are those ideas, expanded with examples and prompts...