Urban Photography: "If Walls Could Talk" Workshop

I've recently participated in an urban photography workshop around Shoreditch organised by the DVJ group of the Royal Photographic Society and photographer Ida Pap.

So what exactly is urban photography and how is it different from street photography? 

Instead of documenting the street life and trying to snap interesting images of people and their interactions, urban photographers concentrate on their surroundings. The scene becomes the main subject, while the once in a while occurring people are only there to emphasise it. 

This approach gives a great amount of freedom to the photographer, who becomes free to roam around the streets anonymously and create something new from very mundane subjects like scraped walls,  puddles, discarded cartons, etc

Here are a few of the snapshots taken on the day

Red Umbrella

Take me for a ride

Butterfly Graffiti

Brick Lane Reflections

Asymmetry

Painted sky

If I can bicycle, I bicycle

Child Play

I'm lost without you..

Autumn colours