The street as a theatre.
more... "In The Flesh"
The streets are the stage for daily life; members of the public are actors in a love story, drama, comedy or tragedy, opera or ballet. But they could be the audience as well, observing the scene just like we are. The urban surroundings are the stage settings.
Werner Mansholt takes pictures on the streets around the world.
He prefers always seeing people being themselves and living completely in the moment, unaware of the camera.
His photographs are candid, authentic and believable. Orchestrating a scene is very difficult and he loves the process of searching and finding such moments for a great picture. Capturing the essential and humanistic moment with the lens, the actions in the drawing, the colours and the shapes gives him a feeling of happiness.
Just as Guy Le Querrec (Magnum Photos) says: „Photography is always a convergence of circumstances, a rendezvous with luck".