Passerby is the central figure of street photography. The stranger in the frame, caught mid-step, who gives the picture its life and its ethical complications at the same time.
That makes it an unusually good name for anything in that world. A street photography collective, a magazine, a print archive, a competition, or an education project. The word is also the polite legal term used in discussions of consent and public photography, which gives an organisation working on those questions a name that’s already in the vocabulary.
On the .org it opens up further. Community organisations, urban studies projects, and anything concerned with public space and the people moving through it. The word is quietly humane, which suits mission-driven work.
One compound word, spelled one way, no hyphen, and it evokes a whole genre in three syllables. Names that carry an image are worth more than names that carry a description.
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