{"id":51250,"date":"2017-12-07T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.procamera-app.com\/?p=51250"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:29:53","slug":"in-focus-martin-u-waltz-berlin-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procamera-app.com\/en\/blog\/in-focus-martin-u-waltz-berlin-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: Martin U Waltz \u2013 Berlin Street Photography (Episode 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>We are excited to bring you <i>In Focus<\/i>,<i> <\/i>a new series that explores what happens when creative professionals and ProCamera come together.<\/h1>\n<h2>Visual artist Lance Hewison, who has guest blogged for us a few times already, has directed the first episode featuring Berlin-based street photographer Martin U Waltz. 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I always liked roaming the streets and exploring, and at some point I simply brought my camera with me and started shooting whatever was happening around me. Eventually I learned that there was something called Street Photography and that I was moving in that realm, so then I started to learn, ok, what does street photography mean and what schools of street photography are there and what could I do within this area.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Figures feature very prominently in your work. What do you find most interesting about photographing people?\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]It\u2019s the blend of people within the habitat of the city. I think that\u2019s the really interesting part. It\u2019s not so much that I shoot portraits, but that I try to contextualize people against the backdrop of the city and how they mix with it; that\u2019s what I\u2019m going for. And it depends; sometimes people are very dominant and sometimes people are tremendously small, like when I shoot from above and they are just tiny figures.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>Do you ever feel blocked or uninspired. If so, what do you do in that situation?<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I think every artist feels blocked and uninspired at times and I\u2019m no exception to that. What I\u2019ve learned is there\u2019s only one way to get out of it, and that\u2019s to start working again no matter how mediocre, no matter how unhappy you are with the results, and no matter how much you don\u2019t feel like it. Just go out and do your thing and shoot whatever goes on around you. There\u2019s no magic trick in overcoming a moment of dullness or lack of inspiration other than starting to work again. There\u2019s one exception and that\u2019s when I\u2019ve shot a lot in a short time. I\u2019m somehow \u201cshot out\u201d. I\u2019m simply exhausted and I know that I need to recover for a few days. But that\u2019s not being uninspired, that\u2019s being visually exhausted.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>Can you earn a living from street photography alone? Is it something you do for fun or for a living or both?<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I teach workshops and sell prints which brings in money, but as a street photographer you\u2019re not so much self-employed but more of an entrepreneur. So it depends on your entrepreneurial qualities and skills if you\u2019re really getting somewhere or not.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>After this experience, in which situations would you prefer to use an iPhone over a larger compact camera or the other way around?<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I was actually surprised how well it worked with the iPhone and how I could get pretty much the same shooting quality as with the larger camera. The advantage of the iPhone is obviously that you\u2019re in \u201cstealth mode\u201d. You can work extremely close and you can shoot in places where people would yell at you if you got a big camera out.\u00a0 The huge difference between a smart phone and a larger camera is shooting at night. That\u2019s when noise is coming in and the small sensor in the device is simply overpowered. That\u2019s a technical frontier that has yet to be fully tackled.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>What, if anything, do you hope to achieve with your photographs?<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]If I want to achieve something I would say it\u2019s a documentation of contemporary Berlin. I really want to grasp what the city is about these days. 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