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street photographers from USA

Tomer Vaknin
Tomer Vaknin

I’m Tomer, 36 years old, father of Emanuel and Ariel, married to Sharon and my Leica camera.
My love story with photography started at 17. At 22, the hobby became a profession, and with Leica – I realized a dream.
Leica is a manual camera brand that enables single, clean and clear photography.
Each photo with her manages to capture truly special moments, one by one.
Taking pictures with her on the street is one of my greatest joys in life.
When I’m not filming in the country, I go to Berlin or New York City.
There’s nothing like Sunday’s atmosphere, freedom or market in Berlin, or the beautiful people of the East Village in Manhattan which has long become my second home.
My photos have starred in coveted magazines in the world of photography, and at National Geographic Photography Competition,
I was awarded second place in photography in interesting areas in Berlin.
On my Instagram page, everything has come together: document the day-to-day authenticity, teach Emmanuel to take a photo with her personal Leica.

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July 21, 2020
Donato Di Camillo
Born in Brooklyn New York, Donato Di Camillo is one son of three siblings born from Italian Immigrant Parents.
As a child Donato suffered behavioral problems with anger, he would soon be expelled from school at the age of sixteen for violence, then finding himself in and out of behavioral institutions and jails.
Ironically Donato became intensely interested in photography while serving out a federal prison sentence in Petersburg, MCI, Virginia“I was always interested in magazines like National Geographic and LIFE. When I was a child I used to dream about being on adventures,exploring, always fascinated about other cultures in different parts of the world”
Since his release in 2012 Donato taught himself to use a camera while being on home confinement. At first he photographed, bugs, plants or anything else within the 120ft of his home, which he was restricted to.
Donato was featured in multiple publications and news broadcasts around the world, such as, BBC, Washington Post, CBC, Huffington Post, and was invited to speak at the prestigious HEARST magazines annual summit.
Di Camillo continues to focus on people and plans to put out his first book in 2020. He currently resides in Staten Island, N.Y.

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About The Collection

An old-timer once told me, “Shoot what you know,” so that’s what I did. I took pictures of the streets that I grew to know so well. I took bits and pieces of ideas from photographers who came before me and created what I like to think of as my own unique interpretation of life. We are all human beings, and we all share a commonality. A photograph should evoke feeling and emotion, it should bare its soul.
July 6, 2020
Manuel Pena
My name is Manuel Pena and I’m a self-taught photographer from New York. I developed my passion for photography in 2015. Since then I moved to capturing everyday moments in the streets of New York. My goal is to tell stories using light, shadow, composition and color. I only have one rule: Shoot anything that interests you and the pieces will fall in place.

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About The Collection

Beauty in the mundane
I don’t have a specific goal when I go out on my daily travels. It seems anything can be beautiful. You just have to be open in seeing and knowing when it’s there. I have to admit being a photographer in NYC can be unfair at times. I don’t have to look too hard as there are always things going on around me. These photos represent what New York is through my eyes. Enjoy!
June 24, 2020
Paul Kessel
Paul Kessel

After a career in clinical psychology and university teaching, I began photography late in life. (one-month shy of my 70^th birthday).
I always owned a camera before this time but rarely used it. In 2008 I started photography courses at The International Center of Photography in NYC and never stopped until ten years later. Originally, I was interested in portrait photography but discovered
street photography and became immersed in it.

I became a street photography workshop junkie and I feel that I have learned from some of the best. Now when I am outside, my camera is always with me and ready.
I worked on projects for a number of years. All culminated in self-published “Blurb Books”. There are 18 of them. More recently, I shoot randomly with the hope of finding an interesting image. My random street photography is self-published in the Blurb Book, “Never the Final Edit, version 6”.

I have been in about 85 group exhibitions. Some are by invitation and most are from contests. In addition, I have had 3 solo shows at NYC Galleries.
I have been a Finalist in the Miami Street Festival twice (2017 and 2018), the San Francisco Streetfoto Festival, the London Street Festival, and I was the winner of the most recent Los Angeles street contest (“Shooting Around the World_LACP 2020). I was a Lens Culture Street Finalist (2016, 2020) and won 3^rd place award in 2020.

I have also been the winner of a few other events, nationally and internationally.
I treat street photography as a sport and I have yet to hit a homerun, a hole in one, or a 3 pointer from mid court. It is the quest and the elusiveness of a truly good photograph that keeps me going.

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About The Collection

The twenty pictures included here are mostly relatively recent and are not necessarily part of a particular project. Most of them are culled from a project I had worked on, but many are random photos in public places, typically the street but sometimes on the beach, subway, or elsewhere. Most of these photographs have appeared in exhibitions. Some may appear to be portraits but all twenty are candid. I prefer to photograph multi-layered street scenes, but I often settle for a candid portrait with a bit of context.
June 20, 2020
Joshua Ethan Johnson
Joshua Ethan Johnson

Josh lives in NYC and makes documentary films and photos.
In 2015, Josh began an ongoing project called FACES (faces-pictures.com) which consists of spontaneously shot documentary films and photos.
He’s made over 26 films and thousands of photos under this project and has no plans to stop.
Josh makes his living as a filmmaker and photographer and spends most of his off hours making even more films and photos while finding time to fly fish as much as possible.

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June 20, 2020
Andy Hann
Andy Hann was born and raised primarily in Southern California. Along with skateboarding and surfing, he developed a deep passion for art and design which he followed into art school and then a prosperous 30 year career in entertainment advertising. After numerous awards and accolades, he says that he woke up one day and decided he was all done pandering to clients, picked up a camera and just starting shooting. “photography”, he now says, “is like a booger on my finger that I just can’t shake”.
Utilizing his formal design training and decades worth of advertising work, photography is a craft that seems to come quite naturally to Hann. Along with his strong sense of composition and use of natural light, he also infuses his offbeat sense of humor into most of his shots.
He says he is now on a quest to find the soul of his hometown.

Solo show at the CAMERAWORKS GALLERY, Portland OR. 2018

Runner up for “Best Single Image”, FOCUS ON THE STORY International Photo Festival, DC. 2018

Published in the Photographer’s FORUM – Best Of Photography 2108

Featured twice in the EDGE OF HUMANITY Photography Magazine 2017, 2018

Featured twice in the STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE 2018, 2019
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About The Collection

WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD
A three year photo essay of Hollywood Blvd.
Even as a young punk I was fascinated with the spectacle of Hollywood Boulevard. Equal parts circus and train wreck, for me it has always been a microcosm of all that is funky about America. Celebrity worship, garish displays of faux wealth, drug addiction, homelessness, exploitation, and urban decay – all on display for mindless tourists who meander about, handing out the money that perpetuates it all.
This book is a three year photo essay that takes a hard look at the vendors, residents, and visitors of the quarter mile stretch known by the locals as “the boulevard of broken dreams”. While never seeking to mock any individuals, it is a deliberate effort to poke a stick at our culture, and hold up a mirror as to who we are.
June 1, 2020
David Ingraham
David Ingraham is a Los Angeles-based photographer, musician and teacher. His work has been presented in numerous publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Black & White Magazine, American Photo, as well as David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine. His work has been exhibited worldwide, from Paris and Istanbul, New York and Toronto,
to Los Angeles.

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About The Collection

This particular collection of images are selections from David’s first book, titled Lonesome City, with a few others tossed into the mix. David’s work frequently explores the universal theme of urban isolation and disconnection, a fly-on-the-wall glimpse of life in the big city. As a street photographer, David has embraced the iPhone as his camera of choice for the last 10 years, finding its small size and ubiquity provide him with a certain level of invisibility in the streets that he was never able to achieve with larger, more traditional cameras.
June 1, 2020
Zach Kalman
I am a photographer living in the Washington, DC area. I make pictures in the places where live and work, but I don’t feel that my photography is about those places. Instead, I engage in the self-indulgent practice of photographing whatever it feels good to point the camera at. My wife and son are the inspiration for everything I do, and the theme of family seems to show up in many of my pictures.

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About The Collection

This is a set from a larger body of pictures I have made over the last few years, and continue to make, in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and New York.
June 1, 2020
Bob Price
My name is Bob Price and I am a photographer from Vacaville, California. Though I do not see myself as a street photographer, I can’t help myself from having fun when doing so. I enjoy documenting the human-influenced landscape.

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About The Collection

These are photographs from Hawai’i and California from 2015-2017.
June 1, 2020
Chris Hytha
My name is Chris Hytha. I grew up in a small town suburb outside of Philadelphia, and I was always fascinated by the city as a kid. Chasing this curiosity, I moved to the city to start Architecture school at Drexel in 2015. In my first few years of school I loved going out into the city to explore, and that naturally led me to pick up a camera to capture my adventures. My study of architecture heavily influences my vision for photography, and oftentimes I am more interested in exploring “what could be” rather than “what is.”

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About The Collection

This set of images is an exploration in light, atmosphere and scale in the city of Philadelphia. Very simple compositions often feel the most powerful to me, and I take a minimal approach to what is included in the frame. Additionally, there is a layer of surreality and fantasy throughout the set, with photoshop being used to accentuate reality.

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May 21, 2020

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David Gibson

David Gibson

Masoud Gharaei

Photographer and writer

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.

Stefano Mirabella

Stefano Mirabella

Stefano Mirabella

Italian Street Photography Festival

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce

National Geographic, The New York Times

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

David Campany

David Campany

International Center of Photography

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

Anna Godfrey

Prestel Editor

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

Nikos Economopoulos

Nikos Economopoulos

Magnum Photos

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

Masoud Gharaei

Masoud Gharaei

Street Photographers Foundation

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.