We're all street photographers now.

I've been a photographer 33 years. For most of that time I never heard or used the term street photographer. Now you hear it all the time.

Would you like to learn how to be a street photographer?

Why not join the Street Photography Now Project. It works like this. Each week you get an email from a leading street photographer to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world. People from around the world then up-load one image to that weeks Flickr group. You also have a chance to critique other up-loads. If you miss a week, no big deal, jump back in next week.

It's run by "The Photographers' Gallery" in London, with the help of Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, authors of the book Street Photography Now.

Sounds like fun, doesn't it?

Now you have a reason to get that new M9.

Rob Skeoch

www.thepicturedesk.ca