"You're always going to have people drawing pictures" Chris Osburn, Writer and Photographer

Chris Osburn came to Leeds College of Art to talk us through the sort of work he does.
He is a freelance writer and photographer, he does work for 'Londonist' http://londonist.com/profile/tikichris/posts for whom he writes reviews from around the city, as well as photography work for 'Juxtapoz' magazine http://www.juxtapoz.com/.
On his webpage, and on his flickr account, he does a 'London Daily Photo' which he has been posting for the last 4 years. These range in quality and content, but always capture something special he has noticed in the city in which he lives.
Chris is interested especially in photographing street art, which he captures in both a polished way with a professional camera, as well as with his camera phone, so there can be a very spontaneous feel to the image. He believes in the link between street art and social media, I suppose by this he means that both are ways of broadcasting a message into a public domain and open forum. He uses a lot of different forms of social media and networks to broadcast his work.
He does condone illegal street art believing that, "you are always going to have people drawing pictures". I asked him how he feels about commissioned street art, does he think that changes the validity of the art. He answered that he can't see too much of a difference between illegal and commissioned street art, but perhaps the illegality of it does add a certain romance to it, which I can understand.
Chris believes that the photographs he takes illustrates his writing and he likes how a camera can be like a pass into someone else's world, how it allows you to act as a fly on the wall, especially when he gets a job to do some event photography.

London Daily Photo

Overall, I was a bit underwhelmed by the photographs that he showed us in the presentation, however after researching him a bit, I think he 'London Daily Photo' is a really inspiring and humorous project which I will continue to follow through his blog http://tikichris.wordpress.com/.