Street Photographers Foundation

Category: Photographers

  • Sai Min Htetoo

    Sai Min Htetoo

    Sai Min Htet Oo aka Dede

    I am Sai Min Htet Oo aka Dede. I am a freelance street photographer based in New York, born in Myanmar also known as Burma.

    I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do when I grew up. I always love to take pictures and as I get older my passion for photography grows. So I started to capture the sincere people’s expression, beautiful light, spaces, and whatever I see. Among them, I realized when I see people’s expressions and communicating with each other in my photos, my heart knew what I love. It is Street Photography. So I started learning about a street photo from Youtube, google, books and I asked some of the people who know more information about it. Later on, I met Rammy Narula on Facebook.I asked so many questions about the street photo and he helped and taught me more about it. I truly thank him for the button of my heart for teaching me more about street photography.

    First of all, I felt creepy taking photos of strangers without their permissions but after looking back at the pictures, I felt pleased with the results and all my fear went away. I am passionate about capturing moments instantaneously. I do believe the best moment never happens more than once and a good photo doesn’t require any explanation. I love to let my images speak for themselves.

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  • Kuba Abramowicz

    Kuba Abramowicz

    Kuba Abramowicz

    Born in 1984. I was brought upin pionki, a small industrial town in central poland. Ever since I was a kid I was very interested in exploring my neighbourhood and I knew I wanted to travel in the future.

    I went to university in krakow where I studied dentistry. It wasn’t until then when I got my first camera and started to shoot. After graduation I started to travel more. My camera bacame my travel companion and  the one thing I would not leave home without. At first I was mostly shooting away from home, soaking in the fascinating world I was discovering.

    Recently I started to shoot more ‘on my door step’. I find this much more challenging.

    I try to look for interesting moments and juxtapostion in the everydaylife. I like vivid colours and a little bit of humour in my photographs.

    Here some of my favourite photos from the last couple years.

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  • Peter Kiraly

    Peter Kiraly

    Peter Kiraly

    My name is Peter Kiraly. I was born in 1993, in Kecskemét. I started out doing street photography in 2016, as part of an university school project. Since then I’ve been carrying my camera with myself everywhere I go and I try to capture “decisive moments” which are sometimes humorous and/or absurd. The aesthetic and philosophical nature of photography also interest me besides its visual aspects, therefore I really enjoy discussions that revolve around these subjects.

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    About The Collection…

    I often don’t plan my series, they form on their own by revealing their connections. This (non-exhaustive) collection strives to showcase the variety of my photographs. However, I feel like I search for the same prospect as every other artist (which is also what the art of photography is in itself dedicated to): the possibility to mediate between reality and our sense of the world.

  • Bjane Levine

    Bjane Levine

    Bjane Levine

    I was raised in the suburbs of New Jersey, a short bus ride from New York City. I earned a PhD in Biochemistry from Columbia University, but left the field of molecular biology research and then worked as a manager in Health Care. After leaving research, I took an interest in photography and began taking classes at ICP and other online platforms. I further honed my skills through many photography trips around the world. My photography spans many genres including street photography, landscape photography and long exposure cityscapes. I continue to work on my project, Urban Tales. It has evolved to include both candid portraits, scenes on the corner and reflections of city life.

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    About The Collection…

    This project is a series of candid portraits of strangers and reflections of scenes captured on the streets of New York City. I prefer to capture transitory scenes on the street without the knowledge of the subject so that the expression, gesture and/or movement are authentic. I go out with no expectations of subject matter other than looking for a moment, which elicits some emotion that I respond to with the subject, it is mainly driven by an internal signal that connects me to the subject or situation. Often, I will shoot a few images and walk on my way, but sometimes I find that a place has great potential and I need the patience to wait around for a scene to evolve. I am drawn to creating layered scenes as well as up close candid portraits. I try to respect the subjects that I photograph, taking an image of a fleeting moment, which I observe with no intent other than to memorialize the scene. The resulting photograph is real for the subject/s as well as myself, yet it may not be a truthful representation of what actually occurred.   New York has been a place that I can wander the streets relatively inconspicuously and feel as if I am part of a bigger society. The people in the photographs all possess a characteristic, gesture, or physical trait that I identify as part of my own story. The series is a composite of pieces of my life – a self-portrait.

  • Teemu Jarvinen

    Teemu Jarvinen

    Teemu Jarvinen

    Teemu Jarvinen is a finnish born street photographer who has spent a lot of time photographing the night, especially around asia. He first started traveling the world in 2014 as a digital nomad, which led him to many beautiful places and eventually pushed him into photography. He quickly got obsessed with it, starting as a landscape photographer but quickly switched to shooting the streets in a dark, often cyberpunk-esque style.
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    About The Collection…

    This collection, “Winter in Japan”, was shot in northern Japan in the beginning of 2019. Usually street photographers are all over Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, but Hokkaido gets less attention which made me want to check it out and capture the scenes. I often went out late at night, not trying to capture people directly but rather the feeling of cold darkness. Eventually it became one of my favorite projects.

  • Gerardo Alcaraz

    Gerardo Alcaraz

    Gerardo Alcaraz

    I was born in Alicante in 1973 and I have been photographing since I was 16 years old, with my first camera that I still have and use. Street photography is my biggest hobby.

    Shooting with film and digital without rules. I don’t have a project, I’m not looking for anything in particular. When I go out, I always carry a camera and photograph what I like or attract my attention.

    I am finalist of the 2020 MSPF and finalist of the 2021 ISPF.

    My goal is to enjoy photography and keep learning. It’s a long way

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    About The Collection…

    This collection is made up of recent photos, from my last stage as a street photographer. These are disjointed photos, without pretending to show a series or project. Most of these photos are taken in Spain. In this small collection, we sometimes find humor, coincidences, compositions, or simply spontaneous moments from real life.

  • Marco Cajazzo

    Marco Cajazzo

    Marco Cajazzo

    I was born in Mazara del Vallo, a small Sicilian town, in 1975. Now I live in Catania where I work as a SW engineer. I started studying photography in 2017 when a friend who is passionate about photography pointed out that maybe I had a good visual sense (ironically I am visually impaired in the right eye). Now I teach street photography at the Imagozero association in Catania. I photograph mainly in Sicily trying to capture the beauty of the world with my Fuji X100V.

    I am in love with Elliott Erwitt’s photography and I think that David Gibson’s “Street Photographer’s Manual” is a milestone book for anyone who wants to start street photography. In 2020 I had the great satisfaction of being a finalist in three important street photography festivals, in Rome, Miami and Istanbul. I will participate in the Treviso Photo Festival which will be held next September.

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    About The Collection…

    My photos are simple, based on observing the world around me. I look for overlaps, coincidences, oddities, surreal situations: everything that can make the observer say “How is it possible?” or at least make him smile. These photos are the consequence of what I saw, not of an a priori project and I have taken them in the last 3 years mainly in Sicily. The street can be an incredible stage of beauty and humanity. The street photographer has the mission to capture the beauty of the moment.

  • Alessandro Deluigi

    Alessandro Deluigi

    Alessandro Deluigi

    I was born in Rimini (Italy) where I live.

    I have always taken photos, in recent years I have approached street photography that I prefer: I find it stimulating, I enjoy it, I am very passionate about it.

    My shots are often composed of a few elements, I prefer clean images, trying to combine perfect framing and timing. In doing so I tell a short story, a contrast, a coincidence, I look for the detail, sometimes humorous.

    Photography for me is the pleasure of freezing time for a fraction of a second and making it live forever.

    Some of my photographs have been selected from magazines and competitions in Italy and abroad.

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  • Joerg Stephan

    Joerg Stephan

    Joerg Stephan

    I was born 1965 in Stuttgart, Germany and I live half of my life in beautiful Bavaria. Today I live in Landshut , a small town in southern Bavaria. I started with street photography a couple of years ago after experiences in fashion and studio photography.

     

    In the streets I try to get closer to the subjects, but also love the broader scene. I prefer shooting from the hips, not been recognized at all in the crowd. I like using the flow of people in the streets, waiting on the accidantly encounter which ist he perfect second.

     

    I never leave the house without my Leica Q2. I do like the streets of my hometown, but of course the opportunities are limited. It is more exciting being in the streets of New York, Berlin, Paris or Singapore which I did visit the last years. All photos were taken before Corona and show street life as it was before. I do hope we all get back to normal and will enjoy daily life on the streets again.

     

    I do mix black and white and colour. Photos just work the one or the other way – both has it´s beauty.

     

    With one of the black and white ones I was finalist in the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) 2020, which I am still proud of. My latest project was publishing my first book. It contains 20 black and white street photos and is available on my website.

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  • Fedor Gorbatov

    Fedor Gorbatov

    Fedor Gorbatov

    I am 44 years old, I was born in Moscow and I am an amateur photographer. I am an IT engineer and the owner of a small outsourcing company. Photography is my second life. At some point, I realized that my life could pass completely and I would never see the beauty of this world. From now on, I will not part with the camera. I realized that photography is one of the shortest ways to understand the beauty of the world around us (and not go crazy). All good shots and a great mood.

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  • Tommaso Banti

    Tommaso Banti

    Tommaso Banti

    Born and raised near Tuscany’s sea, I have always been attracted to storytelling and fine arts. My interest in cinema and photography developed thanks to the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Michelangelo Antonioni, Benoit Paille, Bruce Gilden and Edward Steichen, who deeply inspire me as many other authors  and media do. Eager to learn how to be a director and to find my narrative style, I started my studies at Scuola Holden, a storytelling academy in Turin, where I completed my studies in Cinema. Thanks to this experience I had the opportunity to improve technically and to work on various personal projects in different medias. I finished my studies in 2020.  It was at this moment in life when I found interest in off  camera flash street photography.  Now I am studying Modern Italian Literature in Università di Pisa, but I am still working on new projects in different medias, trying to improve more and more, both on a technical level and on a poetic one.

    Water and wind are recurrent elements that appear in the works I’ve done, as they are and always will be a part of me.

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    About the collection…

    During this last apocalyptic year I’ve been wandering around, armed with a reflex and a cheap flash. I stopped strangers and talked with them for a while. We were in a stage of knowing each other, yet there was a kind of tension. We were feeling creeped out one of the other. What was the other thinking? How were they going to react?
    In their uneasiness I recognize myself, yet I don’t know why.
    It seems important to me to describe this ordinary feeling of uncanny, is it a feeling born during the pandemic or have neighbours always felt this way one about the other?

  • Ilana Rose

    Ilana Rose

    Ilana Rose

    Ilana Rose is an Australian photographer based in Melbourne. She has worked as a professional photographer and photojournalist for over 25 years.

    During this time Ilana has worked for some of the most respected media outlets in Australia, including as a Foreign Correspondent. Ilana’s work has appeared in major Australian publications while clients have ranged from Government departments to art’s organisations, record companies, NGO’s, film companies and private clients.

     

    As a photographer, Ilana is passionate about story-telling, social justice issues and street photography. Her work has been exhibited in Australia, New York, China and New Zealand and collected by galleries and arts organisations throughout Australia.

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    About The Collection…

    I have been fortunate enough to travel the world as a working photographer and my passion and obsession for photography means that I always have a camera in my hand. This collection of street photography is what I do in my down time, exploring new cities and countries, always looking for those fleeting moments of beauty, the quirky, magic light and photographs that help tell the story of the lives of the inhabitants of a place.