These photos tell you almost everything you need to know, if you pay attention to what they don’t do. Nobody is posing. Nobody is centered perfectly and smiling at the lens. People are mid-call, mid-step, mid-thought, holding drinks, checking phones, drifting in and out of conversations. In the first frame, the woman in sunglasses stands alone for a second, slightly off-balance in the composition, phone to her ear, badge hanging loosely, sunlight cutting across the pavement in irregular shapes.

Canon’s crop mode is often introduced through numbers—crop factors, megapixels, percentages—but that framing misses what photographers actually feel when they flip it on. The defining experience is visual. The moment crop mode is engaged, the viewfinder tightens, distractions fall away, and the subject steps forward with a confidence that feels unmistakably telephoto. Nothing about the lens changes, no digital zoom is applied, yet the camera behaves as if the focal length itself has grown.

Fashion photography slipped into a strange, fascinating niche over the past decade, almost without announcing itself, where the photographer no longer waits for a brand brief, a seasonal lookbook, or a PR-approved moodboard. Instead, the photographer works for an influencer—or, more radically, becomes the influencer—using the street as both runway and studio, and style as a long-term narrative rather than a campaign deliverable. It’s subtle at first glance. The images look spontaneous, maybe even accidental: a coat caught mid-swing at a crosswalk, boots half-lit by a storefront at night, a face turning away just as the light hits the cheekbone.

Most people don’t think of a Canon R100 and a cheap Chinese manual 50mm as a setup worth discussing in the same breath as Henri Cartier-Bresson. But standing in front of this tiny camera, the absurdly fast TTArtisan lens flaring a little at the edges like a half-remembered summer glare, you suddenly realise something: Bresson didn’t care about gear the way the internet does. He cared about reaction time, about intent, about walking the streets ready to trip a shutter at the exact moment life blinked.