Street Urchins

Four mischievous urban children roam the streets of inner-city Sydney and take all sorts of liberties with supermarket trolleys…yes, a typical Saturday night scene for an assortment of dissenter who crave not the lazy comforts of a suburban dwelling, but quite altogether feel at home staying up late and stomping about poorly-lit alley ways.

Sydney's Chinatown: f/2.8; 1/60sec

Sydney’s Chinatown: f/2.8; 1/60sec

Fancy all the fun games and adventuresome diversions that can be contrived in such enclaves with no adult supervision!!

Sydney's Chippendale: f/2.8; 1/60sec

Sydney’s Chippendale: f/2.8; 1/60sec

The best thing about street photography after dark is that there are no rules. The final viewer of a print will see more than the original photographer saw through her lens. On a night out like this, there is emancipation from daylight-derived regulations; the freedom to act and shoot at will means that protagonists are self-ruling thespians on a stage constructed for their own gratification.

Sydney's Surry Hills: f/2.8; 1/60sec

Sydney’s Surry Hills: f/2.8; 1/60sec

Choose your hero: you are now become him! Around each corner, within the smallest of neighborhoods, at any moment, photography allows us to freeze one of those moments and study all of the small dramas, episodes and pseudo-movie scenes that were taking place.

Be who you wanna be, young Street Urchin…

Sydney's Surry Hills: f/2.8; 1/60sec

Sydney’s Surry Hills: f/2.8; 1/60sec

About Alice

I run, I jump, I sing, I dance. Whether climbing trees, walls or stairs I do it at a clip. When out, my date is always Trusty Nikon (who never lets me down in the attire stakes; so smart in his black, with a pop of red!). Where does it lead, this love affair of mine? Well, its lead me to Dubai, via the matrimonial aisle, thanks to a gorgeous husband who whisked me from Coogee beach, Sydney into the Arabian Peninsula - to my new home, Dubai. I am a freelance writer and photographer and my wish is to snap away, to scribe and to share it all with you. Enjoy.
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