Random Photo Journal’s call for Neighborhood photography points to the practice or routine of creating candid images of everyday life in our go-to community/neighbourhood. For this project, we expect spontaneous moments of people in honest poses in their neighbourhoods or in the neighbourhood where a photographer resides, with and without the knowledge of the subject in the picture. It can be photography on the streets, beaches, open malls, homes, public events or at random in a way that tells your personal story as a photographer or lens artist.
Rooted in exploring migration, family history, and the complexities that arise from it, we aim to delve into the intersection of many kinds of worlds with “neighbourhoods” as the subject matter.
There is a unique quality about every neighbourhood that makes it a favourable subject of photography, for photographers like Daidō Moriyama, it’s the smell of the streets that he loves to explore, for David Arnold on Midtown Manhattan: “It is full of costumes and people with agendas. Nobody is at home or paying attention or acknowledging that they exist.” For some photojournalists, what they love is the people, present colours and hues in the environment, topography, food, lifestyle and culture in both daytime and nightlife. Photography that fully circumvents what makes up a neighbourhood is welcome. Depending on the neighbourhood class, richer or poorer, we expect every perspective of photography from photographers who certainly will love to be featured alongside peers in visual craft who see things in our society the same ways as them, or at least fondly similar. This call also goes for fashion houses, fashion designers, fashion enthusiasts, make-up artists, tattoos, and graffiti.
Arinzechukwu Patrick
Street shops, Street food, Street corners, Street walks, Street fashion: Clothes, Haircuts, Hairdos, Nails, Street fights, Police, Architecture: Archetypes, legends, level-up stories from the streets. Sex. Drugs. Parties. Religion!
Okay to avoid the confrontations the images bring with the making of it. Okay to not post, and it is fine if, at the moment, you saw the pictures and did not think it looked great. Photographs are a nice byproduct of the other things a photographer finds themselves doing or places they find themselves going, but they're not always the point of the journey.
Email Submissions to Randomphotojournal@gmail.com
