Street Photography: Where does the street begin and end? Part 1.

Santiago Chile

The history of the pathway, the street, and the scenes they often lead to is a storied one. The trail is not so much a physical thing as an ephemeral one, a place in our collective imagination. Picture if you will, the most populated space in your town or city, it's energy, its culture. Picture the roads leading there, the square or congregating spaces. Where does the street begin and truly end and must it be populated by bodies to tell us something about our selves?
Culture is a thing that arrives when two or more beings interact in some kind of space, virtual, conceptual, or actual. The street is where we decide how to be with one another. We negotiate those we have yet to meet, and before we know it, culture and civilization has emerged. Even mostly empty spaces reverberate with our history, our intentions and our energy through structures or the smallest markings.

Antarctica. The imprint of culture at the end of the world

The street occupies an ample space in ou...