Built Environment and City Streets

I am delighted that over the last few months LIP - London Independent Photography has been featuring in their online galleries some of the photographs I publish regularly in my Instagram (@daniloleonardistreet @daniloleonardiphotography). For me Instagram is mainly my notebook on cities and the made world. When I photograph, some of my guiding questions are as follows: how does public space look?, how is it used?,  how do we, human beings, sense space? John Donat (1933-2004), the great British photographer of architecture, whose work I find inspirational, put it perfectly: “One scruffy live picture is worth ten perfect dead ones.” He made this observation in a presentation at the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1967. A transcript of which entitled “The Camera Always Lies” appeared in the February 1968 issue of the RIBA Journal. I believe in the great importance of documenting human presence and how human beings make of use of the space offered by the built environment and city streets.