30 June 2009#26

The South Bank, London, 16th September 2006

Detail shots in street photography tend to be very much overlooked as they usually deal with the minutiae of everyday life rather than any grand themes or dramatic lighting effects. In this picture of a street magician marking a playing card, the look of his assistant as I caught the shot is as important a part of the image as the main subject matter as his look reveals the thoughts of someone being discovered doing something a bit naughty. I wonder if he’d have looked at the camera in quite the same way, if at all, had the shutter on my D200 at the time been quite so noisy.