“I think over time you get better at spotting emotions, as well as gestures, compositions, and more because these are the things that you’re constantly looking for; The ingredients of a photo,” says Willie Velazquez, arguably one of NY’s best street photographers, to the Phoblographer in an interview. “I think you may even begin to take in the world in a different way compared to the people around you who don’t shoot.” He continues to state that sometimes, even he doesn’t know what he sees — but it’s a gut reflex to just shoot. Overall, he attributed some of his work to just pure luck.
