Gary Mark Smith * Global Streetphoto Man's photostream  

The Fine Art of Global Street Photography;

*About the Artist.
Driven from his hiding place in Kansas by a puzzling wanderlust, master photographer Gary Mark Smith has (despite his reticence) become one of the most highly regarded and highly decorated global street photographers in history {Snapshot Resume: www.streetphoto.com/ArtistResume.htm ) Since 1982 he has faithfully lived up to his global billing by executing several extensive street photography field expeditions per year (every year) out on the streets of more than 60 countries on six continents. Although most of these journeys focus on hunting down and capturing visually bold and intellectually stimulating candid moments at public gathering places (a people-watching bystander stalking the poetry of everyday life out on the streets) --- Gary may best be known for photographing extraordinary and sometimes violent historical streets in their times.



Occasionally it's during breakouts of war and peace, or breakouts of fierce natural calamity -- or streets in times of revolutionary transition and disarray. But typically, when there is no history drawing him to its streets in it's time, Gary wanders aimlessly around the globe in his own time. Hanging around at outdoor cafes or on streaming street corners or on park benches --- willfully scouting for and anticipating moments of fleeting street art. Typically camping out in his tent on location at city campgrounds to save money, thereby availing himself the lengths of time required abroad to accomplish his dedicated task: To create a compelling global street photography portfolio during one artist's lifetime revealing both the variety of culture and the similarity of spirit and infrastructure one finds out on the streets of a single planet during one generation (at the turn of the millennium) where predominantly urban people can be studied and photographed going about the task of living out the leisure and bustle and sometimes grind of their everyday public lives.