A native of France who has lived and worked in New York since 1986, Didier Vanderperre has been photographing for over 30 years. His desire to photograph places off the beaten track has taken him to remote and less-traveled places areas of Indo-China and East Asia: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Xinjiang and more importantly Myanmar.
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In the summer of 1987, I opened a magazine and saw Elliot Erwitt’s ‘Great Dane Legs, Boots and Chihuahua’ for the first time. I was mesmerised. Shortly after that my mum bought me a second hand 35mm camera (thank you Mum), and I went to art college to study graphic design and photography. I occasionally made some ‘OK’ photographs, but it took my naive and impatient 16-year-old self a long time to realise that candid photography (as it was called then) was much, much harder than Elliot Erwitt made it look.
Since then, photography has always been a part of my life. Sometimes being immersed in it (building my own darkrooms and printing my own work) while other times my cameras have gathered dust or been sold to pay for other things. In 2016, after a 15-year hiatus and a chance visit to Arles, I rekindled my commitment to photography. I’m still plugging away.
©ChrisHarrison
B Jane Levine was raised in the suburbs of New Jersey, a short bus ride from New York City. She has a PhD in Biochemistry from Columbia University, but left the field of molecular biology research to raise her family.
After leaving research, she took an interest in photography and began taking classes at ICP and other online platforms. She further honed her skills through many photography trips all over the world. Her photography spans many genres including street photography, landscape photography, and long exposure cityscapes. Currently, her focus is a series of candid portraits of strangers captured on the streets of New York City.
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I was born in Springfield, Missouri, and raised in the suburbs of Memphis, TN where I studied illustration and photography. I earned my degree in photography in Memphis and have been a photographer for almost 20 years. In 2018, I began documenting my everyday life here in New York. This became the project A Fragile Utopia. I reside in Brooklyn with my wife and young son.
©BradJones
I was born in soviet Poland where I found my calling in the spatial perception and geometric patterns of architecture. After finishing my studies in architecture, I moved to Paris, where I have lived ever since. I discovered street photography in November 2018, during a workshop by Maciej Dakowicz in Mandalay, Burma. That was the first spark that incited a whole photography related trips.
When I go out in the street with my camera, I have no precise idea of what I am going to photograph. A priori everything interests me, the ordinary scenes, the details, the light, the colors, the shapes and above all the people inspire me. I respect people, I don’t want to attack them. I don’t use flash, ever. My presence is accepted, why I don’t know. I never put people in a situation. I adapt to the scene, I try to preserve natural expressions. I make candid street photos, simplifying the chaotic mess of life with a sense of beauty, to bring out some mystery and order. I love to capture those moments that make every moment beautiful in everyday life.
©AnnaBiret
Dive
This collection of images represents my synthesis of a path that leads straight into the profound aspects of my psyche, as well as my soul. Just as dreams bring with them the double dimension of latent and manifest content, so do images. This journey, which often begins with doubt, moves according to non-linear logic, now going into the more mental and thought-related aspects, now descending into the depths of the unconscious through dreams and slips.
Street Scenes
The street is the absolute of everyday life. In an increasingly digital world, it is where reality comes to life. The street is the circulatory system of all the cities of the world, where people of all ages, origins or living conditions mix and circulate. What guides my gaze is the quest for those fleeting moments through which I manage to reconcile virtuality and reality.
Fare Adjustment
Lost in Tokyo, I approached the metro ticket booth. The agent motioned for my rail pass. But where was it? And for that matter, where was I? The answer escaped me. Instead, swirling in my mind was a void made in the wake of my father’s recent passing. Light streaks traced over blurred recollections of abrupt travel to my family home. Deepening this emotional whiplash, I returned back to my apartment in Seoul only to learn my wife had been unfaithful. Wishing to escape the gravity of grief and infidelity, I booked a cheap ticket to Japan. But now there, I found escape was a fleeting specter like a spider web caught adrift in the wind to which I remained entangled. My life felt simultaneously in the air and weighed down by the turbulence of heartbreak. Reality returned to me as my fingers brushed over my rail pass card inside my camera bag. I slid it under the window and listened to the ticketing agent\’s voice echo through the intercom. “You need more for fare adjustment. One moment, please.” While the agent made his calculations, my mind was left alone to wonder how much more the toll would be.
South Korea
Lost in Tokyo
I approached the metro ticket booth. The agent motioned for my rail pass. But where was it? And for that matter, where was I? The answer escaped me. Instead, swirling in my mind was a void made in the wake of my father’s recent passing. Light streaks traced over blurred recollections of abrupt travel to my family home. Deepening this emotional whiplash, I returned back to my apartment in Seoul only to learn my wife had been unfaithful. Wishing to escape the gravity of grief and infidelity, I booked a cheap ticket to Japan. But now there, I found escape was a fleeting specter like a spider web caught adrift in the wind to which I remained entangled. My life felt simultaneously in the air and weighed down by the turbulence of heartbreak. Reality returned to me as my fingers brushed over my rail pass card inside my camera bag. I slid it under the window and listened to the ticketing agent\’s voice echo through the intercom. “You need more for fare adjustment. One moment, please.” While the agent made his calculations, my mind was left alone to wonder how much more the toll would be.
France
Dad and Son
Anna Biret
India
Look the feature
B Jane Levine
USA
Crossing into the afternoon light at a street fair.
Brad Jones
USA
A Fragile utopia
Chris Harisson
England
Untitled
Daniel Brusilo
Mexico
white surfer
Didier Vanderperre
Bangladesh
unloading bricks
Jonathan Jasberg
India
shelter from the storm
Jose Luna
Mexico
Taxi
Lenny Ruiz
Turkey
seagull s man
Giacomo Vesprini
Italy
Dive
Wenpeng Lu
France
Street Scenes
Chalermporn Yuthongdee
Thailand
Untitled
Maude Bardet
southern Angola
ovakuvalle near virei
Thomas Hackenberg
Germany
braunschweig
Simona Bonanno
Italy
horse and canadair
Mehran Mafi Bordbar
Watching
Photos of Winners and Finalists will be showcased this year.
Andrew Kochanowski is a candid photographer based outside Detroit, USA. Since 2007 his work has appeared in both solo and group exhibits in Detroit, London, Paris, Warsaw, Berlin, New York, Brighton (U.K), Cardiff, Milan, San Francisco and elsewhere, at venues such as the London Street Photography Festival, Brighton Biannial, SF StreetFoto Festival, Street Photo Milano, Miami Street Photography Festival, Paris Photo Month, and European Month of Photography in Berlin.
He is a founding member of Burn My Eye, an international street photography collective featured in numerous shows and exhibits worldwide.
He makes frequent appearances at street photography festivals, and his work and interviews have been published in numerous print and web publications including Leica Blog, Metropolitan Detroit, Dodho, Lensculture, Mutant Space, Eyeshot Magazine, Radiate, Huck Mag, and others.
He is sharing an edit of his street photography taken in the past few years in the United States, Italy, and Taiwan.
My name is Michael McIlvaney. I am a street photographer living in the UK and Ireland.
When not working to a project my work is generally unplanned, always candid and in public. All images derive from single shots. I delight in capturing the spontaneous events and serendipitous occurrences that unfold before the camera’s lens, transforming otherwise mundane scenes into moments of theatre. I search out those fleeting movements, flashes of colour, gestures and glances, and moments of connection that, when captured, reveal a story that would otherwise have been left untold.
I’m captivated by the city; the place where the public and private spheres jostle. I seek out the dancing light and deeply dark shadows which offer to dramatise the “performers” in any given scene.
I feel at home in the flow of the streets, amongst the bubbling, yet to happen, encounters. In collaboration with luck, described by Agee as one of the “cardinal creative forces at work in the universe”, I strive to transform the actual, and mundane, into a new, sometimes conceptually different, kind of aesthetic reality.
I was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Canada, and presently living in Hong Kong. My passion for photography started when I discovered street photography a few years ago. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I traveled frequently for work and I used that opportunity to document people and places whenever I could. In 2021, being grounded in Hong Kong, I worked towards improving my photography and decided that black and white is the direction I would take. When I shoot, I enjoy looking for good light, one that provides a nice gradient or high contrast for the frame. My goal is to make photos that tell stories with good aesthetics. I like to make candid shots of people, as they are the most natural expression of the moment, and I strive to be as respectful as I can in each situation.
This collection are photos I have made in 2021-2022. They show the everyday life of people in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although these are shots of strangers, I feel that they are, in some ways, a reflection of my own life. My career and lifestyle has definitely been negatively impacted by the pandemic. Street photography has been an outlet for me through these times. The moments in these photos are reminders of what I have in my life to be grateful for.
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
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.”
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.
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.
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).
Masoud Gharaei was born in March 1988, he is a 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. He is also the founder of Street Photographers foundation.