Honestly that approach always feels like it crosses a line. Asking a fishmonger to hold up a fish or a flower seller to rearrange their stall immediately kills the spontaneous energy. The best street shots come from catching someone lost in thought while weighing produce, or the specific way a vendor wipes their brow that they'd never do on request. Once you introduce collaboration, you're documenting a performance, not daily life. Those tiny unselfconscious moments are what actually reflect cultural shifts.

Wait, didn't it used to be pointless? Idk, maybe not.