The Long Game: Ryan Faer on Learning Street Photography

Well, beyond the street photography, I mean, do you use your camera to photograph people at work?

Yeah.

Um, I, I don't.

'Cause you do a lot of famous people and maybe, maybe they don't wanna be photographed.

[laughs]

Yeah.

No, and I don't, I, I don't let them bleed together.

I wanna keep it separated.

It's so important that the relationships that I have with our players are really strong so that I can best support them and their goals and things like that.

So mixing photography and theirs not, is, is not super conducive for that.

But it's been nice 'cause I think early on, you know, like my Instagram, like I built a following on social media platforms, Twitter back in the day and whatever, through coaching and sports science and sports performance.

And then one day it- Posted a photography picture on my Instagram and then kept doing that.

Mm-hmm.

And I'm sure people were like, "What on earth is this?" Well, it's been nice recently that, like, players are starting to recognize that it is just something I do and it's a part of my life.

And it's really good when the players start to see you, and, and staff, they see you beyond just the person they see at work.

So it's actually been really fun to, like, like I actually went out with a ...

So don't bring the camera to work, but we have a couple young players that I've, that I've gone and done street photography with out here.

'Cause they just, they thought it was cool.

They bought, they got their own camera.

They like photography.

They'd never walked the streets with a camera.

So I said, "Hey, like, let's, let's go out and do it." And they're, you know, they're 18, 19-year-olds.

They're kids-

Yeah

... living here by, by themselves.

Well, beyond the street photography, I mean, do you use your camera to photograph people at work?

Yeah.

Um, I, I don't.

'Cause you do a lot of famous people and maybe, maybe they don't wanna be photographed.

[laughs]

Yeah.

No, and I don't, I, I don't let them bleed together.

I wanna keep it separated.

It's so important that the relationships that I have with our players are really strong so that I can best support them and their goals and things like that.

So mixing photography and theirs not, is, is not super conducive for that.

But it's been nice 'cause I think early on, you know, like my Instagram, like I built a following on social media platforms, Twitter back in the day and whatever, through coaching and sports science and sports performance.

And then one day it- Posted a photography picture on my Instagram and then kept doing that.

Mm-hmm.

And I'm sure people were like, "What on earth is this?" Well, it's been nice recently that, like, players are starting to recognize that it is just something I do and it's a part of my life.

And it's really good when the players start to see you, and, and staff, they see you beyond just the person they see at work.

So it's actually been really fun to, like, like I actually went out with a ...

So don't bring the camera to work, but we have a couple young players that I've, that I've gone and done street photography with out here.

'Cause they just, they thought it was cool.

They bought, they got their own camera.

They like photography.

They'd never walked the streets with a camera.

So I said, "Hey, like, let's, let's go out and do it." And they're, you know, they're 18, 19-year-olds.

They're kids-

Yeah

... living here by, by themselves.