The Daring Assignments

Choose one interesting stranger and photograph them across several frames as they move through a scene. Learn to anticipate and stay with a subject.

Ask three strangers for a posed portrait. Direct them gently. Learn the collaboration of the consented portrait.

Make ten frames from roughly one metre. Fill the frame with your subject.

Make five frames where the subject is looking directly into the lens. Hold the moment instead of fleeing it.

Spend an hour photographing only people interacting with hard light and shadow. Light as the subject.

Capture ten peak gestures: a hand raised, a laugh, a step over a puddle. Train anticipation.

Find one stage and stay forty-five minutes, working it as people pass. Patience over wandering.

Wade into a dense crowd, a market, a protest, a festival, and shoot from within it. Closeness in chaos.

Photograph someone, then talk to them. Turn the frame into a human encounter.

Put yourself into a photograph, via shadow or reflection, in the spirit of Friedlander.