WNYC, Street Shots

The Big Apple's WNYC hosted a street photography contest last year and posted a video of the winner, Joe Wigfall, on their site.

Take a look. You will be pleasantly surprised at Joe's dedication to the art of street photography. He doesn't earn a living doing what he does in the video, but he makes a powerful argument of engaging the streets with his camera...art for art's sake. (And, he doesn't rely on a camera that looks like a piece of field artillery. You will see him carrying a bag from which he draws a small point-and-shoot camera, as well as a more common DSLR-type.)

Joe has his own technique for capturing images as he negotiates the schools of New York City's pedestrians, taxicabs, and bike messengers. He sees with his hands.