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We are pleased to announce our 2020 & 2021 Street Photography Awards exhibition, which will take place in Paris on May 27,28,29, 2022. A total of 62 photographs by 43 street photographers around the world will be on display in Galerie Joseph Le Palais. The jurors David Campany from ICP, Andrea Bruce from National Geographic, Anna Godfery from Prestel, Nikos Economopoulos from Magnum Photos, and Masoud Gharaei, Founder of Street Photographers Foundation, selected images for Awards based on creativity, originality, and quality. A selection of eye-catching images of street life through the lenses of the winners and finalists from around the globe will be presented in the exhibition.
PHOTOGRAPHERS ON SHOW:
Lucia Herrero • Francesco Gioia • Dimitri Mellos • Maude Bardet • Adam Miller • Paul Kessel • B Jane Levine • Argus Paul Estabrook • Cristina Embil • Fabian Muir • Eric Davidove • Jeremy Paige • Kuba Abramowicz • Meysam Hamrang • Navin kumar • Peter Kiraly • Piti Amraranga • Raffaele De Vivo • Roberto Di Patrizi • Ximena Echague • Sudeep Lal • Tomasz Kowalski • Sai Min Htet Oo • Tommaso Banti • Denis Perepelenko • Giuseppe Cardoni • Jian Wang • Tomer Vaknin • Bartosz Swiatnicki • Rafael Pier • Roman Lazarev • Alan Burles • Akib Amjad • Filip Machac • Bouwe Brouwer • Andy Hann • Santiago M. Septien • Sina Shiri • Ilya Nikolayev • David Fidalgo • Subhran Karmakar • Ambrus Deak • Giuseppe Volpe // Curated by: Masoud Gharaei
5 Rue Saint-Merri, Paris • Metro: Rambuteau (11) 230m • Hotel de Ville (1-11) 280m
David Gibson (1957) is a British street photographer and writer on photography. He was a member of the UP Photographers street photography collective.
Gibson’s books include The Street Photographer’s Manual (2014) and 100 Great Street Photographs(2017) / Street Photography: a History in 100 Iconic Images (2019). His photography has been published in a number of survey publications on street photography, and exhibited in group exhibitions in Britain (including at the Museum of London, which acquired his work for its permanent collection), at the Museum of the City of New York, and in France, Bangkok and Stockholm.
Italian Street Photography Festival
Masoud Gharaei was born in March 1988, he is an Iranian photographer. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of Iran. He is also the founder of Street Photographers foundation.
Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece. He studied law in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist. In 1988, he started photographing in Greece and Turkey, and eventually abandoned journalism to dedicate himself to photography.
He joined Magnum in 1990, and his photographs began appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world.
In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. The work in the Balkans won him the Mother Jones Award (San Francisco, CA) for work in progress. Upon the completion of his Balkans project in 1994, he became a full member of Magnum. His book In The Balkans was published in 1995 in New York (Abrams) and in Athens (Libro).
Anna Godfrey is the London-based Commissioning Editor for Prestel, the international arts publishing house. Prestel publishes award-winning books on photography, art, architecture, design and fashion. These include best-selling street photography titles such as, ‘100 Great Street Photographs’ (2017), ‘Street Photography: A History in 100 Iconic Photographs’ (2019) and Anna’s recent project, ‘Women Street Photographers’ (2021); the first book on women street photographers which collates the work of 100 contemporary women to explore the intersection of public space, photography, gender and power. Anna’s publications have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, i-D and many more.
David Campany is a writer, curator and artist, working mainly with photography.
This website is an archive of David’s published writings, with information about curatorial projects.
His books include A Handful of Dust (2015), The Open Road: photographic road trips across America (2014), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014), Gasoline (2013), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (2010), Photography and Cinema (2008) and Art and Photography (2003). He also writes for Frieze, Aperture, Art Review, FOAM, Source, Photoworks and Tate magazine.
Recent curatorial projects include Dust (Le Bal, Paris, 2015) Walker Evans: anonymous (Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2015), Lewis Baltz: Common Objects (Le Bal, Paris 2014), Victor Burgin: A Sense of Place (AmbikaP3 London, 2013), Mark Neville: Deeds Not Words (The Photographers’ Gallery London, 2013) and Anonymes: Unnamed America in Photography and Film (Le Bal Paris, 2010).
David has a Phd and teaches at the University of Westminster, London.
Andrea Bruce is an award winning documentary photographer whose work focuses on people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war’s wake. Her clients include National Geographic and The New York Times as well as many publications around the globe. Andrea was a 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where she studied political theory and democracy. Andrea started working in Iraq in 2003, bringing a local reporter’s knack for intimacy and community focus to the lives of Iraqis and the US military. For over ten years she has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas, focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan. For eight years she worked as a staff photographer for The Washington Post, where she originated and authored a weekly column called “Unseen Iraq.”