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Danielle Houghton was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1969 and has had a passion for photography since picking up a camera as a teenager. Her commitment to Street Photography really ignited in 2010 and since then she has been very active in the online Street Photography Community. She has also exhibited in London.

She likes to explore fresh ways of documenting the streets we live in where a ‘street’ can be more than the traditional definition and can encompass anywhere a sense of life occurs.

Let us get to know Danielle a little bit better:

1. How did you get into street photography?

In a way I discovered street photography twice – though the first time I did not know what I enjoyed had a name.

In my teens, as my brother dabbled in developing black and white photographs in a cupboard at home. I thought it may be fun…

What does Mar Mikhael mean to you? How would you represent it in a street photograph? Here’s your chance to show us and the inhabitants of this dynamic neighborhood!

BSP will be showcasing street photographs from the community at the upcoming Discover Mar Mikhael Car-Free Day organized by Achrafieh 20/20 (who held a similar event back in September that we also took part in). Get a better idea of what last year’s car-free event was like and all the fun we had at our on-street exhibition here.

You have the chance to showcase some of your photographs by taking part in our contest. The top photographs submitted will then be exhibited all day for hundreds of passerbys to see and get a taste of the city through your lens on Sunday April 7th.

CONTEST THEMES
Photographs submitted must fit within one of these themes:

1. CONTRASTS
Show us the contrasts within…

Decided to kill some time yesterday afternoon printing. Finished off what’s left of the regular 8×10 paper. Also had some fun with my antique Zephyr lettering set on the prints, figure that’s better than my messy handy writing, still trying to get used to the lettering set yet. I think I had more fun with that stupid thing than printing. By the way trying something new, everything was printing f5.6 or below on the Rodagon with the help of ND and even CP, for those who knows what I am talking about, I don’t see much difference, do you?

I’m going to give him this print Friday, hopefully he’s working. There’s a consistent scratch on the prints for this frame, I am not sure how it happens. But I do know I urgently need more archival sleeves to prevent that. Fine example of scanned prints is not as good as…

Yesterday I traveled to Edinburgh for the day with a group of friends. The first thing that struck me was the number of homeless people begging on the streets. It was bitterly cold and these folk were everywhere. On Princes Street we witnessed an act of kindness when a guy walked up to a homeless man and gave him a coat and then just walked off to get his bus.

My entry for Arts of Respect 2013: Diversity.

My photographs are usually taken in various areas in New York City. With the hundreds of people passing by you at every second, one would see people of all kinds of races and ethnicities. My street photography goes in depth on what kinds of people I tend to see in the city. When I photograph, I don’t see a person based on their skin or race. Instead, I document their personalities, expression, and actions tell the viewer everything on where they are and who they are as people.