Street photography offers a continual sense of discovery. For one local man, it’s just a question of keeping walking
It’s not easy being a street photographer at a time when everybody walks around with a (phone) camera. Not only does it make your subjects – i.e. random people – more skittish about being snapped, it also makes it harder to stand out. No-one’s a photographer when everyone’s a photographer.
Antonis Hadjigeorgiou is 27, and perhaps he hasn’t really stood out yet – he wasn’t even sure about photography being his true métier till a few months ago – but he’s getting there, with over 2,000 followers on his Instagram (@tony_hadj). And he’s standing out in a different way too, earning himself quite a specific identity: the young photographer of old Nicosia.
It’s not exactly an official brand. Still, not only did Antonis grow up (unusually, for someone his age) in the walled city, but whenever he goes out to shoot – which he does four or five times a week – he’ll
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