“Rejection Exposure Therapy” by Eric Kim

How to Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography with “Rejection Exposure Therapy”

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Photographs © Eric Kim

 (A photograph from my ongoing “Suits” project. London 2011)

This is an essay I wrote addressing our obsession with “favorites” and “likes” on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, 500px, Google+, photo blogs, and so on. If you have ever felt that you were photographing more for affirmation from others than yourself, give the essay a read.  I share my personal experiences and also make practical suggestions in the end how to overcome an addictions to “favorites” and “likes”.

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Capturing Proof and Evidence on the Streets of LA: Medhi Bouqua on Shooting with an iPhone by Eric Kim

Photographs © Medhi Bouqua

Eric’s Kim Note: This article is written by Medhi Bouqua, a street photographer based in LA. He shares his experiences shooting with an iPhone– and the importance of documenting life. Medhi shares more of his thoughts and images below:

Medhi: Today’s society is definitely over equipped/ flooded with many different types and genres of technological gadgets for all sort of necessities. Photography has become an essential tool of proof and evidence, showing, duplicating a moment and emotion by capturing the exact frame, reflecting it, and documenting it all at once.

Photographs © Medhi Bouqua

It is a shame that only a minority of enthusiasts have awakened to explore, document every emotion, segment of reality and life in a creative sense to bring us closer together, to share our love in a sentimental picture, and in a matter of established fact.

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On Social Media and Street Photography by Eric Kim

Photographs © Eric Kim - Dubai, 2013

At the moment of writing this, I have over 30,000+ Facebook fans, 13,000+ Twitter followers, 20,000+ Google+ followers, and 12,000+ YouTube subscribers.

People have called me a bit of a “social media phenomenon” at times – and commend me for being so good at “marketing myself.”

I am certainly not the social media guru but I have learned a few things through social media through the years (especially when it comes to photography).

I wanted to write an article on some guidelines I suggest street photographers (and all photographers alike) when using social media: 

1. Build connections, slowly
2. Less is more
3. Promote others, not yourself
4. Use social media as a bridge to real-life communication
5. Disconnect
6. Conclusion

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