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Tour & Street Photography Workshop Reviews

SNYC has had hundreds of very satisfied customers from all over the world on our tours and workshops! See their reviews here and on Trip Advisor.

I have provided walking photo tours and street photography workshops for hundreds of visitors to NYC and New Yorkers alike. These are some of the reviews.
 

Review by John, United Kingdom

I really do need to say a big thank you for taking me on board and guiding me through the streets of New York. I have started to look at the photos and I am reflecting on the time I spent with you. As I reflect, I realise that what you have to offer is invaluable and goes well beyond simply identifying possible photo opportunities. New York was really my first attempt at Street Photography and you taught me so much. I know I was probably more focused on the buildings than the people but I did take in everything you said and I did learn a lot. I came home much wiser and a much better photographer for what you taught me. In the days after the workshop, I found myself using what you had taught me and more importantly looking at what was in front of me with a completely new perspective. I came home a much better photographer and for that I will always be grateful.

As I think back, I will become increasing appreciative of the time you spent taking me to the boxing club, the bar and the street photographer. This added a completly new dimension to my experience and added much depth to my awareness and experiences of the city. Thinking back, these were invaluable occasions and I find myself talking all the time about them. They have certainly become a focal point of my discussions with people. I love being able to say that I met local artists and saw things a typical tourist may not see. I would love to return some day and have you show me more.

You may be interested to know that The New York Times published an article on Thursday 8th Dec about Advent Calendars. The relevance is that they talk about the most expensive one being one produced by Tiffany which is based on the “Equals Pi” work of Basquiat. I was so pleased that you had introduced him to me and had taken me to see the art at his studio. I do not care about the Advent Calendar at $150,000 but I am so pleased to be able to say I was at the door and I saw the work on the wall. A big thing.

Thank you so much again, for everything. You really did make a difference to my skills, my perspective and my insights to the world of art.

December 2021

 

Review by Peter, Brussels, EU

Fun private tour with Leanne I spent a fun half day with Leanne just ahead of New Year in Soho and the East Village. As a reasonably comfortable street photographer, the tour nevertheless got me thinking again about how I was taking pictures, particularly light and shadow and reflections.

We put a particular emphasis on street art and murals as we went around. Leanne is a gifted teacher who engages comfortably and in a very New York way with you and the surroundings.

We met at Astor Place mid-morning and spent four hours exploring Soho, Nolita and the East Village.

Along the way we met and got talking to a BBC journalist, the guy in the Overthrow New York boxing club, an upcoming photographer Jean André Antoine, with a side line in on-street Polaroid photos using a 1940s camera with a 1960 Polaroid back, @Biancadoesnyc refreshing one of her murals, and the people at John Varvatos - the former CBGB’s club.

So this was also a trip in social history as well as some great photographic opportunities to see parts of town that I would not have discovered on my own. A really great experience which delivered some good photos.

We finished at a bike shop, Rapha’s, which also does coffee and where you could sit outside at the back on a reasonably warm December day.

ToursLeanne Staples