How to shoot excellent documentary photography and throw away the SLR after reading it?

I dare not comment on how to make a good documentary photography. Let me briefly talk about my views.

Famous photographers in the history of photography at home and abroad, such as henri cartier bresson, the father of documentary photography who founded the "decisive moment" theory, Mark Rib, who shot China for countless times, and Daido Moriyama, a famous Japanese freelance photographer, all spent a lot of time on street photography, and retained one classic moment after another by capturing ordinary people's daily moments, and their works touched countless people. It can even be said that photos that usually help people remember history and times are often not earth-shattering events, but street photos that record the details of ordinary people's lives and the characteristics of the times.

For sweeping the street, we must first confirm the intention and theme of shooting, otherwise it will be superficial and cursory. Some photographers will be obsessed with shooting historical buildings and human moments that are about to disappear, some will focus on recording people and things that are most characteristic of our times, and some photographers will look for ordinary life details that show the brilliance and touching of human nature in the streets, and record emergencies, conflicts and disputes. However, everything remains the same. Only by recording what can move you can photos move others. The feelings of humanitarianism, equality, sympathy and pity that discount human nature in eastern and western art in photographic works will never be out of date.

This is a cliche about the importance of photographic equipment to photographic works. There is a saying among friends: the same level of equipment, the same level of equipment!