Street Photographers Foundation

Tag: American Photographers

  • Marci Lindsay

    Marci Lindsay

    Marci Lindsay

    I currently live in Washington, DC, and am still rather new to shooting street photography. I went to college and then started a short-lived career as a city planner in NYC, and if anyone had told me then that I would soon be in Iowa raising four kids, I would have told them they were looking in the wrong crystal ball. We moved every few years, hitting suburbs in Virginia, New York, and Austin. I hope I am now finally and permanently a city dweller again, and also that I will continue to be able to see the world, as I was happily doing in pre-Covid days.

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    About The Collection…

    I fell in love with street photography when I was a child, long before I knew it had a name. My parents had exactly one photo book, and it included work by the likes of Elliott Erwitt, Helen Levitt, Robert Doisneau, Garry Winogrand, and more. Later, studying in Paris, I spent money I didn’t have on a book of Magnum photographers’ work. But it wasn’t for another 35 years that I took up the challenge of photographing in the streets myself!

     

    These photos reflect my version of holding up a mirror to the world I see and capturing moments that most people would never notice. To me they are far more interesting—and funnier—than anything we could make up. I am drawn to ordinary people doing ordinary things. To me, it’s all extra- ordinary—gesture, connection, humor, and our workaday lives. We humans are so much more the same than we are different, and hopefully my photos remind people of that.

  • Argus Paul

    Argus Paul

    Argus Paul

    I’m a biracial Korean-American photographer who works in both South Korea and the USA. Frequent travel between these two countries has provided me a unique perspective of Korean identity and its relationship to both global and regional communities. As an artist, I’m interested in creating work that gives voice to others and I often volunteer my efforts to marginalized communities. Currently, I am a member of Native Agency and Diversify Photo.

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    About The Collection…

    “How to Draw a Line” explores the border towns directly south of the DMZ. As a biracial Korean-American and as someone who has lived in one of these towns in the past, I felt a personal connection to this space caught between two worlds — where military camps, secluded villages, and tourist attractions all coexist while separating the North and South still officially at war.

    My memories guided and motivated me to revisit the area. During the Fall of 2019, I trekked multiple times between the northeast and northwest coasts of South Korea. While the routes can be drawn as literal lines on a map, the images draw a conceptual “photographic line” that traces the overall journey. Throughout these travels, I witnessed a liminal existence: subdued yet expressive, in spaces simultaneously active and still. The camera captures the subtle surreality of these isolated areas, offering an unexpected yet often overlooked view into Korean life.

  • 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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  • 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.