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Strangers Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I have been itching to do the Strangers Project for a while now. Basically, the challenge is to photograph 100 strangers in a given period of time – until the end of the year in my case. Initiating a conversation with people I don’t know is a great way to train myself for close-up street photography. I am using a 35mm lens, rather than a longer one, to force these really tight shots and, at the same time, it is paying off in that I can capture some of the surroundings, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images posted here all show people whom I have never met before and have explicitly asked for a portrait. To be fair, I have given everyone my email so that they can get a copy of their image, if they’d like.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Occupations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This second iteration of strangers aims to not just capture the individual, but also what it is they do. I am now trying to always take an image of someone in the process of doing something and then take a portrait as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early Portraits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These were my first couple of attempts at capturing strangers. Some are well captured while others are not perfect, yet. So we keep on going \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strangers Project I have been itching to do the Strangers Project for a while now. Basically, the challenge is to photograph 100 strangers in a given period of time – until the end of the year in my case. Initiating a conversation with people I don’t know is a great way to train myself for close-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54101"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54741,"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54101\/revisions\/54741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanebeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}