Look-up ‘Street Photography’ in Wikipedia and the attempt to define it starts with ‘Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places.’. So why is it that today’s Street Photographers easily confuse it with Documentary photography. Is it really? Both Street Photography and Documentary photography are well understood traditions, so why is it that the former is so easily conflated for the latter?

Although there has been a huge surge recently in the interest of Street Photography, the majority of its self-declared practitioners appear to suffer from a severe lack of knowledge about this tradition and their work has very little to do with the genre.

Thomas Kuhn coined the term Paradigm Shift in the early 1960s, whilst explaining his theory regarding scientific advancement. Kuhn claimed that scientific advancement and the evolution of scientific theories has not been linear, but rather that a "series of peaceful interludes is punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions" …