I took this photo of my son at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. It's an unposed moment — a spontaneous scene he created upon encountering the giant spider on display. Although the image features my own child and was taken inside a museum, I consider it a form of street photography.

As I’ve explored in my reflections on urban ecologies, street photography is not confined to public streets or urban environments. According to Serge J-F. Levy (1), street photography is best understood as a process — a way of moving through space with attentiveness, responding to shifting shadows on a wall, an unexpected gesture in a crowd, the rhythm of footsteps echoing in a hallway, or the sudden alignment of forms in a fleeting instant. It’s about remaining open to the unanticipated (even if, in a second moment, we anticipate by mapping the environment) — to whatever moment might quietly or dramatically reveal itself.

In this sense, even though the setting is indoors and the subject is my son, the image aligns with this process-oriented view of street photography: it arises from a moment of spontaneity, presence, and unscripted interaction between bodies and space.

References

(1)- Levy, S. J.-F. (n.d.). Street photography as process. LensCulture.