I've been hit by rocks several times.(posted 8099 days ago)My impression is that the best street photography is done when there is a well-defined, non-threatening relationship between the photographer and their subject. That means either getting to know the people you are photographing really well, or, paradoxically, being a complete stranger who is outside the usual power structures. Somewhere in the middle is where you get all those suspicous glances and angry boyfriends.
I must dig out the slide my wife took from our hotel window in central Madrid, with me sitting on a railing pointing the camera up at her, and a group of local women self-consciously prinking and preening in the foreground, unaware that they are not in fact my main subject.