Joel Sternfeld

Joel Sternfeld "American Prospects" In 1971, the 27-year-old Joel Sternfeld left his native New York to embark on the first of many trips he would later make to America with the aim of documenting his homeland while remaining fascinated by the people and landscapes that were intertwined to form such a complex society. Investigating the [...]

Thomas Hoepker

Thomas Hoepker (1936- ) is a German photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He is known for stylish color photo features. He also documented the 9/11 World Trade Center destruction. Hoepker originally made a name for himself in the 1960s as a photojournalist with a desire to photograph human conditions. Hoepker was born in Munich, [...]

Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz (American, b.1938) is a Contemporary photographer born in New York. He attended Ohio State University in Columbus from 1956 until 1959, and upon graduation, began a career as an advertising art director in New York. Inspired by the photography of Robert Frank (American, b.1924), Meyerowitz began working full-time as a self-taught, freelance photographer [...]

Black & White Awards 2023

Jama MasjidSINGLE IMAGE WINNER Gavin Libotte Jama Masjid Australia JURORS' PICKS Juan Carlo Calingo USA Rush Hour Yanni Rawat No India The Rhythm of the Street Juan Sostre USA Magic Coffee Laurent Niddam France Big Brother in black & white Nina Papiorek Germany Yi Brennan Reaves USA I Spy Peter Kiraly Hungary Rainy Day Neil Johansson [...]

Enrico Markus Essl

A Wider View – Street Photography Series A wider view, the view that I often like to find as a street photographer on my rambles through the cities, rare to find, but then I really enjoy it when I found them. A calm that you can rarely enjoy alone .. but sometimes there are those [...]

Giovanni Tisocco

Unique & Abstract Street Photography by Italian Photographer Giovanni Tisocco Giovanni Tisocco, the visionary Italian Photographer, possesses a profound passion for capturing intangible emotions and indulging in a delightful interplay of shapes and colors that enchant the eyes and invigorate the mind. His photography is a vibrant expression of self and a powerful medium for [...]

Rupert Vandervell

Enchanting Urban Symmetry: Black And White Street Photography By Rupert Vandervell Step into the mesmerizing world of Rupert Vandervell’s black and white street photography, where the bustling urban landscape transforms into a captivating realm of enchanting symmetry. With a keen eye for detail and an innate understanding of the play between light and shadows, Vandervell [...]

Kevin Wolf

About the Collection The people of Istanbul are "infected" by a "state of mind that is as life-affirming as it is -negating", the Istanbul-born writer Orhan Pamuk once wrote. This is known as „huzun", a deep melancholy that can be experienced in all corners of the city. That "Istanbul feeling" is the subject of this [...]

Thomas Hackenberg

About the Collection My series is basically about using music as an inspiration for candid street photography and putting music into pictures. In addition to being a street photography aficionado, I fell in love with music at a very early age. I was recently listening to a wonderful pop song sang by NYC-born singer-songwriter Melanie [...]

Tony Le

About the Collection I've lived most of my life about 40 minutes south of San Francisco, California. I've trekked into (what I lovingly call) the city a few times a week for years, and it feels more like home than the suburbs I live in. Still, that distance allows me to avoid becoming desensitized to [...]

Alessandro Lasevoli

About the Collection In the brisk embrace of New York's blizzard season, I'm called to the streets, much like a jazz musician is drawn to a piano. Manhattan becomes a stage, and as the city's denizens, often caught off-guard, wade through blizzards, their dance narrates tales of resilience and spontaneity. With my trusted film Leica [...]

Amy Horowitz

About the Collection There is a freedom in outward expression of any sort but amplified by the year spent indoors hiding from a deadly virus, freedom beginning in the Spring of 2021 took on a distinctive aura: a bold, colorful one. On the surface, there was a vibrancy, a specific mix of joy, defiance, morality, [...]