Janusz Jurek Embraces the Weirdness of On a regular basis Life in Charming Street Pictures — Colossal

Humor and happenstance take the entrance seat in Polish photographer Janusz Jurek’s wry photos. Working as a graphic designer and industrial photographer by day, he finds the best inventive freedom within the candid and incidental—the issues he notices as he strikes about city, travels, and attends festivals and different occasions. These are the locations the place he observes a few of the most unusual people and the quirkiest coincidences. “The less commercial and more bizarre, the better—people are more authentic then, less in control of what they’re doing,” he tells Colossal.

Jurek is drawn to conditions that occur exterior of the mainstream, usually turning his again on regardless of the current attraction is as a way to observe what’s taking place throughout him. He focuses on “the people, their reactions, small gestures, and strange coincidences. This is where moments that are truly surprising often appear,” he says.

As Jurek has realized over time, a few of the greatest photos occur proper at dwelling. The crux of the method is all about noticing what’s happening, not the place it occurs. And magnificence is rarely the target. “I don’t care about the photos being pretty,” he says. “Quite the opposite—for me, street photography is the antithesis of all the technical perfection and imperfection that’s everywhere on the internet these days.” Instead, he’s fascinated by the power to boost questions and provoke reactions within the viewer, from curiosity to amusement to slight discomfort.

Jurek is working towards the discharge of a group of pictures titled Look, Before It’s Gone, chronicling his road images over a interval of 5 years. See extra on Behance, and comply with updates on Instagram. You may also benefit from the work of Eric Kogan and browsing high photos within the Pure Street Photography Awards.