About
This site will feature photographs from Shawn Grimes of all types of street entertainers practicing their art before their captive audiences and give you, the reader, a chance to learn about their craft. The project will begin in the Spring of 2008 and wrap up the following Fall. I will try to post a new photograph each Friday along with a quick blurb about street performing.
People go to the theatre with the purpose of being entertained. They are seated and corralled and forced to focus at the stage before them and there is a set price for viewing the show. Street performers must draw their crowd from unsuspecting passer-bys. People interrupt their shopping, touring, or other plans to stop and watch a street performer. They have to be sucked in magnetically by the performers presence. Many street performers are disadvantaged by not being elevated on a stage but are positioned at the same level as their audience.
My focus will encompass a wide range of subjects; from the professional to the commoner and everything in between. Anyone who is providing entertainment to the pedestrian traffic is a potential focus in my work. If you are a performer or know of an exceptional performer in the mid-atlantic area that you would like included, feel free to email me at shawn[at]shutteronthestreet[dot]com.
