Here is an old post dated Sept 2009 I found on Nick Turpin’s blog, sevensevennine, titled “edit edit edit” (edit : another interesting development of this post here on B:streetwise) that we should all meditate as aspiring street photographers. As per Nick Turpin :
Less than 1% of the ‘street photography’ I see on the web is worth seeing
99% of street photography on the web is crap
It is probably true, I would even say less. If you just look on flickr the tremendous amount of pictures that are posted each day, and that are flagged as street photographs, how many are good street photographs? How many are not a theme already captured, interpreted, transformed millions time already by others? How many are not a flat and dull snapshot of a character over a billboard, how many are intense, how many just look so candid and so genuine at the same time that they look fantastic? Probably a few, a very few actually.
I am also participating at this giant mess about street photos, so I wouldn’t blame anyone doing so. (although my intents are pure 
) However effectively, difficult to find good pictures in these high volumes of low quality pictures generated each day. The issue is that it slowly decreases the overall quality of street photography, and the judgments people have on this branch of photography. For an external viewer, many pictures qualified as “street photography”, made quickly with quick black and white editing, look more or less all the same like standard and unplanned snapshots.
It is important to remember that the Street Photographer, more than any other kind of photographer, is just an editor….an editor of time and space, using the camera frame and shutter to cut out a single poignant juncture of the two.
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Instead of editing a days shooting and posting your best image of the day…..edit your years shooting and post your best ten images of the year….now that will be a set worth looking at.
So I will apply the advice to myself, however a year is very long, so I’ll start with a week. An other way to interpret this, is, on 100 pictures you have published so far, only select one and only one… hmmm. In these conditions, I start from scratch, which gives a lot of room for progress!
However, this buzz around street photography can be interpreted as a good sign : it means that street photography is in good health, more and more people are practicing it, more and more people are publishing their artwork, and even if only a percent is correct and can be considered as quality street photography at the end, it provides a fair amount of chances to get a lot of artwork at the end of the year, it’s just statistics. So, it’s an overall benefit for the genre, and allows development and diversity of the discipline.
Anyway, I stay confident in the relative quality of websites such as 1x.com which provide a systematic screening of pictures, offering a giant quality check before releasing anything on the web. So… let’s try not to disappoint mr. Turpin, and the overall street photography community, right?