Siegfried Hansen: Street Photography, Geometry & the Myth of Decisive Moment

In this episode of Eyeshot 50mm, we sit down with Siegfried Hansen, one of the most influential voices in contemporary street photography, to explore how seeing comes before shooting. Hansen talks about geometry as a visual language, street photography beyond faces and gestures, and why the obsession with the decisive moment often limits how we read the street. Drawing from painters, jazz musicians, and photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, he reflects on intuition versus intention, editing as distance rather than control, and why coincidence is never truly accidental when your way of seeing is trained.