It’s not all the hype now, it’s been all hype ever since the cameras started to become available.

The beauty of (good) street photography is the unreproduceability. Every person can go to Horseshoe Bend and take beautiful sunset pictures if they study little bit of theory, but very few people can get similar street photography results to the masters. That takes time, good eye, sense of storytelling. Good street photograph has a story behind it - which can be very superficial (basically photo version of one like joke) or very deep (a documentary about a city riddled with AIDS).

However (and unfortunately), from the most people it is only what you described - random pictures of strangers.

Paulie B is incredibly talented chap. Very rare in the sea of crap that is on Youtube.

I don’t. I print, for myself.

It’s been a while since I realized noone cares about my photography and that’s fine.