Beschreibung:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In the era of social media and digital cameras, street photography, or the candid documentation of everyday life in public space, has seen a resurgence of interest worldwide. What draws people to the genre is its ability to transform the way they see and experience the spaces around them. Street photography, I argue here, is a mode of <jats:italic>shadow worlding</jats:italic>, a dynamic and collaborative place‐making practice in which the places being built are left deliberately inchoate and incomplete. Based on several weeks of participant observation among street photographers in two Indonesian cities, this article considers what happens when we begin to see and experience the way a street photographer does. I tell the story of several Indonesian street photographers, as well as describe my own experiences with street photography, to demonstrate the potential of the genre for reimagining and reworking our relationships with the cities we live in and the fieldsites we pass through.</jats:p>