How to shoot humanistic photography (or street photography or documentary photography) without being scolded?

I think many people will stick to the experience of the Bresson era when answering similar questions. Personally, I think those are not enough.

Mainly because times are different! As a human being with social attributes, the novelty and rejection of other people's cameras have been increasingly debated, even rising to the level of ethics, morality and even law. This did not exist in Bresson's time, at least to a large extent.

There are fewer and fewer groups welcoming the camera, and they are geographically distributed. Personally, the more backward the comprehensive development of society, the less people reject cameras, but the less people pay attention to themselves and privacy. Such as South Asia, Africa, South America and some poor areas.

This is why the so-called humanistic documentary film library is increasingly full of poor, weak, hungry, cold, ugly, strange and embarrassing films; A movie full of "humanistic care"; Movies full of backs and sides; Movies full of too many people, such as fishing on the Lijiang River, horse racing on the dam, the old man in the red land, smoking cakes and cattle grazing, and "blockbusters" directed by Southeast Asian preset plots.

The great classic of predecessors, "Composition in advance, and then capture the wonderful moment of someone passing by", has also been played into a routine by modern photographers, which has become a disaster.

If most of a humanistic photographer's films belong to the above, no matter whether he admits it or not, it is unhealthy.

This is not criticism, nor is it that the technology is not home. But society has changed, times have changed, and human concepts have also changed. This has gradually become the congenital defect of street, humanities and documentary photography.

If you want to ask, "What should I do?" Actually it varies from person to person. The same subject has completely different attitudes towards different photographers.

A thousand words are useless, just two words: friendliness and morality. Put yourself in the other person's shoes. It's comfortable for the other person to look at you, not the first reaction to doubt your motivation.

This is not to say what you are going to do. It is the natural expression of personal conduct after training: let the other person look comfortable.

As the old saying goes, "To be a man for the sake of literature" means to make a statement first, and then make a person.

So is photography.

Finally, I'll give you a suggestion. Street photography is lonely, so you'd better take your time.