Street Manual

A field guide for street photographers.

by Luke Carey

Projects2 hours

The Queue

Specifically British. Specifically strange.

Photograph queues. For anything - sales, food banks, theme parks, post offices, nightclubs. The queue is the subject. The behaviour within it - the social rules, the impatience, the occasional solidarity - is the content.

How to shoot it: A queue holds people still and off-guard, which is a gift. Work it from the side to show its length and the body language running down it, then move in for the small dramas, the glance back, the phone, the boredom. Early sales queues and food-bank queues say very different things, so decide what the series is about before you shoot.

The output: A series that says something specific about British culture.

Camera Settings

Any.

The Assignment

Find a queue. Photograph it from inside and outside.

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