EYE-Photo Magazine, Issue #01, January 2019

ANALOGUE HEARTS
by Nikita Stupin
You should try to completely exclude viewing of captured frames. During the interaction with the camera, you
are fully focused on what is here and now, at all that is in the past, you should look at home. Learn to trust
yourself, the settings on your camera and your guts. Forget about the screen!
Rule 3
Plan, plan and plan again.
Always put concrete and a clear plan of the shooting day. My main attribute along with the camera has always
been and will be a small black notebook that inextricably follows me wherever I go with my camera. Before going
on the hunt, in the days of preparation for work, I prescribe how many frames and what specifically I want
to shoot. For example: Faces of people, close - 10, details of walls - 10, architecture - 5, etc. You can structure
your plan as you want, make it detailed or general, whatever! The plan will allow you to perform your actions
clearly and consciously, and it will also not allow you to forget about adhering to the rule number one.
Rule 4
Wait.
Haste is the enemy of Street Photography. Wait. Watch and wait for exactly the moment in which you see your
idea, through which the previously written plan will realize your success. Remember - there is no hurry, be patient
and wait for your “Decisive Moment”.
“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must
know with intuition when to click the camera.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Let’s love the art that allowed us to freely express ourselves and treat with respect to every frame that gives our
genius a chance to live forever.
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NIKITA STUPIN - Russian-Canadian photographer. Founder of a creative street photography crew “Moustache
& Glasses”. Adept of the classical Straight Photography style. Behind the back of the photographer are
more than 25 exhibitions, both in Russia, and in North America and the USA. Besides international venues, Nikita
Stupin’s exhibitions have gone over with success on “Red October”, in Fotoloft Gallery at Winery, Artplay gallery
and other art platforms in Moscow.
At the heart of his thin insight and unique approach to work not only his talent, but also his degree in the field
of clinical psychiatry.
Nikita is the member of the Russian Photo Union, an international organization of photographers of Group 7, the
teacher of faculty of the photo of Institute of Arts Education (Moscow), Toronto Film School (Canada) and MOM-
MA (Moscow). Member of the international organization Fujifilm X-Photographers, ambassador of the Fujifilm
company. The author of multiple publications on the Street photo and a phenomenon of Straight Photography,
and also author’s own technique of “contactless shooting”.
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