I like her subtle, gentle and simplistic yet enigmatic style of her work. Her street photography has a feel of slightly constructed feel bit realistic and big cinematic. Polly Braden came and shared background of her documentary projects and some explanation on the situation of many of her shots giving some insight on how documentary project is executed and how the actual shooting is like. I did some street photography years ago and I understand the difficulties especially the uncertainties of composition, as everything is moving. It is a time consuming and tedious process unless you have very good time leeway and patience; of course one excellent image could give lots of reward. According to Polly, the career aspect is more challenging with minimal financial reward and limited opportunities. However she developed her career really well with lots of presence in gallery and publications. She markets her story and works in amazingly extensive channels and with very good tenacity. I quite like her fixed lens approach as well, where it gives less intruding perception over long zoom lens in public.
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