Street Photography for the Purist

Forward by Patrick Kahn, Publisher of The Book LA and Panelist for the LUCIE Awards
Street photography is an art and a way of life.
It is not just, as Chris Weeks modestly suggests, taking your fucking camera everywhere. It is that too, though, most importantly, it is your eyes, that
you have to take everywhere. Your eyes and your brain and your heart and your gut.
Live your life as a tourist, and you’ll record it like a tourist. And your images will be just pictures. As cool or “artistic” as they may be, they will just
be consumable, disposable pictures.
Street photography is about immortalizing a moment, a mood, an image. It’s about capturing the essence of a moment, with all its emotional weight
and/or its poetry and/or its flavor.
My friend Chris asked me to do this foreword, and I am very happy to do it for him, because he is the real deal. He lives and breathes photography.
He captures life with rawness and poetry, like very few can. And he does it in every situation, over and over again.
What strikes me most with Chris Weeks’ photography, is that he you obviously feel the influences such great classic masters as Cartier Bresson,
Doisneau, Robert Frank, Brassai, Lartigue or even Helmut Newton, yet his vision and delivery which is deliberately modern and sexy (in the
conceptual sense) definitely bear his mark.
I can always tell ... Yeah, this is a Chris Weeks shot!