street photography – Si Brown artist

Nature Writing, Notes Made Whilst
Notes Made Whilst… in Sheffield: 6 August 2019.

Notes made whilst in Sheffield: 6 August 2019. ~ warm wind, with an edge; blowing dark cloud in from the peak ~ children’s squeals from fairground rides ~ sparrows bustle in paving hemmed street trees ~ in Fargate’s swirling crowd’s…
By Si Brown July 30, 2021
Book Review
Book review – Modern Photojournalism

I found this marvellous book, Modern Photojournalism: Origin and Evolution, 1910-1933 by Tim N. Gidal, in a local antique market. It turns out to be the first volume of a series Photography: Men and Movements. These particular men* are predominantly…
By Si Brown July 26, 2021
On The Street
Crossing the road: Division Street, Sheffield

In search of the urban green man. Sheffield.
By Si Brown October 3, 2016
On The Street
Winter bicycle, waiting in the shadows. Sheffield.

Sheffield, my home city, a hilly place(like Rome, seven of them, allegedly) a city surprisingly full of bicycles. In winter, as the nights have drawn in they dodge and weave amongst cars and buses and pedestrians alike. Or, like this…
By Si Brown December 9, 2015
On The Street
Bound with a ribbon

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. Anzia Yezierska
By Si Brown February 28, 2014
On The Street
City Living

I was out making images for my Noctilucence project a few years ago. In 2011, in Sheffield, a comfortable relatively prosperous city. The first image offered itself up on the ironically named Paradise Street. It’s just a linking road really,…
By Si Brown August 24, 2011