19 March 2008 0:00 GMT / By Ian Hughes
Street photography is quite literally a dying art. The old masters of the candid image such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank would struggle in this day and age due to legislation and simple paranoia.
In society's eye it would seem that anybody wielding a camera in public is either a paedophile or a terrorist. This in turn drives the fine art photographers to employ more and more covert techniques which ends up looking even more suspicious.
In France it has been written into law that you are the owner of your own image - this, in effect, makes candid photography a form of copyright theft!
Modern exponents such as Londoner Matt Stuart have to take the regular stop and searches by the police and the verbal and sometimes even physical abuse from the general public in their stride. And the results are well worth it judging by this site.
A showcase for some of the best in the business of capturing people and places at their most unsuspecting. Fabulous images and long live the art form.
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