Street Photography

Nicholas Chen

Street photography has always been about capturing and documenting a particular moment of a narrative in public places. As an architecture student, I start to look at street photography from the perspective of architecture, focusing on the narratives between the architecture and the person.

People are a huge part of architecture and there are people that hang around at the same place for a long period of time that they become a part of the architecture and our experience and journey of the city.

The series of photograph represents some of the types of people I often encounter on the streets of Glasgow city centre. Homeless reader at Merchants House of Glasgow, Apple repair sign holder at Apple Glasgow and Street performer at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Each one of it has a unique narrative and relationship between the architecture and the person. These narratives are often unseen from the eyes of an ordinary, but looking through the lens of architecture, these narratives begins to emerge and form an intriguing narrative.

The triptych also depict the comparison of scale between the architecture and the people, how a person fit in and interact with the architecture in natural way that was not intended by the architect.