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The tones and contrast between light and dark areas define black-and-white photography.[38] It is important to note that monochromatic pictures are not necessarily composed of pure blacks, whites, and intermediate shades of gray but can involve shades of one particular hue depending on the process.

Paul Lukin
Born in the coastal city of Split, Croatia in 1980, Lukin started photographing in 2004 and has been obsessed with the medium ever since. He works on long-term, self-assigned projects, focusing on emotional and psychological studies of the human condition. His images often incorporate dark and mysterious undertones, creating an impressionistic allegorical narrative from documentary photographs that merges the deeply personal and collective. Lukin is a finalist of Sony World Photography Awards 2018, finalist of Siena International Photo Awards 2019, and was shortlisted for the World Press Photo 2019. He was also an invitee artist by European Cultural Center for the Venice Art Biennale 2019. His work has been exhibited in galleries internationally, including the prestigious Somerset House in London. His photographs appeared in publications and media outlets ranging from National Geographic, GUP Magazine to BBC.

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THE AGE OF MELANCHOLY
As sadly rates of mental health issues are constantly increasing, The Age of Melancholy by Paul Lukin is a dark visual narrative that explores different aspects of life and loneliness from both personal and universal perspectives. In an age in which we’re all digitally connected, real connections seem to become harder to make. Loneliness is becoming a growing health epidemic of our era.
July 11, 2020
Gloria Salgado Gispert
At the age of seventeen I was given my first camera, it was the same camera my mother had used to document our childhood, she used to photograph our everyday and create family albums that I have looked at hundreds of times. Without really knowing or thinking about what I was doing, I took photographs of my high school and university years. I started doing the same my mother did, documenting my every day, mainly the people around me, my family, my friends, people I met on my way. Street photography came naturally, it had to be that way. The process of photography is so beautiful, it makes you see things in such a different way, that pictures present themselves to you wherever you are.

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I am simply someone that documents my everyday with the help of the camera. It helps me understand everything that happens around me and my place in it, and I do it mostly for myself, because it makes me happy, because I see extraordinary things and moments thanks to the camera.
I would say I take pictures with my heart, do some thinking during the editing process and wish I had more time to be a bit more serious about it and be able to prepare a complete series of work instead of 20 pictures from different unfinished projects.
July 11, 2020
Juan Galan
I am a Spanish street and documentary photographer currently based in Bari, Italy. I attended photography classes independently at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Salamanca, as well as film photography at the University of New York, while finishing a degree in psychology. Recently, I started to document the lifestyle of the local people in Southern Italy, with a strong focus on composition, contrast, subjectivity, and people’s expressions.

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Eat, Pray, and Love
There is something about the Mediterranean cultures that has always fascinated me, whether it is Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, or Italy. There is a simplicity in the lifestyle, the enormous cultural diversity in their history, the optimism of their people, the enjoyment of contemplation, the family values and the closeness, the philosophical and humanistic approach of their societies.
Eat, Pray and Love is the title of a movie, but in southern Italy —in the Puglia region to be precise— seems to be emblematic of its cultural identity. Eat a good plate of local cuisine, Pray on Sundays, and Love surrounded by romantic spots. One might say that the Italians keep this territory a secret because of its authenticity. It ranges from the countryside to the sea, from the sandy beaches of the Ionian Sea to the rugged coast of the Adriatic, where the octopus is enjoyed raw and fresh fish is served without dressing.
This photo-essay addresses the core values of people from Puglia. It is an approach of their life-style, traditions, social life, neighborhood business, close relationships, etc. A set of values that shake your spirit to make you live passionately and humanly, very distinguish within Mediterranean cultures, where luxury is the simplicity of everyday life.
June 28, 2020
Ehsanul Siddiq Aranya
I’m Ehsanul Siddiq Aranya from Bangladesh. I was born in Khulna, Bangladesh. I grew up and completed my School and College Education from Jashore, Bangladesh. I’ve Completed my graduation in B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Daffodil International University from Dhaka. Currently I’m living in Dhaka for corporate job purpose. I am professionally a Software Engineer working at Orange Business Development Ltd. which is a Software Company of Bangladesh.
Photography is my hobby and I am a Travel & Street Photographer driven by passion. Travel, Street, People’s lifestyle, daily life and all people related genres are my favorite genres. I started capturing photos in 2010 with my uncle’s Handi-cam, cousin’s Compact, and Point & shoot camera. And then in 2013 I realized the name of “capturing photo” is Photography, Then in 2014, I started with a DSLR camera. In 2014 five of my street photos were exhibited in Drik (A famous art gallery of Bangladesh) in three different Exhibitions. That was a turning point this hobby. Then I started to learning how to capture good photos and learning from each little part of the world. Still I am learning and as ‘collection’ is my second hobby so I combined both of my hobby and started collecting good photos in my portfolio. Clicking different photos of different activities of people, location, and culture with my third-eye and showing them to my favorite people is my hobby.
To me, photography is the medium to show what the world looks like and how it’s changing every day by human. And I am trying to tell the world what I feel about the world via the universal language photography.

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June 24, 2020
Wieslaw Mamon
My name is Wiesław Mamoń, born in 1966 and I’m a Polish engineer and teacher. My adventure with photography started relatively late in my life, when I was in my mid-thirties. At first I enjoyed landscape and travel photography most, but it wasn’t until I attended some photo exhibitions where I came across works by such artists like Pedro Luis Raota, Stanko Abadzic and Manuel Alvarez Bravo that I got fascinated by how photography turns 3(or more)D reality into its 2D interpretation. As in this process the role of photographer is crucial, I found it intellectually challenging and entertaining to create my own visual stories. Apart from inspirations from masters of street and documentary photography my photos basically reflects my personal qualities, experience and family, cultural and religious background.

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This collection is a mix of my shots from 2009-2019, taken both in crowded places of big cities where I often got to with the intention of shooting and in quieter surroundings during my family trips. In my photos I look for beauty, harmony and positive emotions rather than shocking or provoking content. Compositions that are aesthetically pleasing, sometimes surprising and/or funny, usually showing ordinary people in their everyday situations. I enjoy playing with long exposure and visual illusions.
June 24, 2020
Sachin Chauhan
Sachin Chauhan

Sachin Chauhan is an internationally recognized India based Street Photographer.
He holds a graduated degree in bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication.
He had done internship in The Times of India Newspaper as a Photojournalist.
He has been doing photography from Last 4 Years.
His core essence of Photography is “ Candid ”. Sachin’ s Work has been exhibited internationally.
This Year, Sachin nominated for World Pretigious Award “LEICA OSKAR BARNACK AWARD” In 2019 ,
He won two Big International street photography festivals. Right Now, He is doing job as a Part – time photography Teacher in a University.
He is member of India based Unstaged Collective – A street photography Collective. Sachin will be in Curation Panel of Brussels Street photography Festival 2021.

Awards & Exhibition

1^st Prize Winner in Brussels street Photography festival 2019
3^rd Prize Winner in Miami street Photography festival 2019
Finalist London street photography festivals, 2019
Finalist Sanfranciso street photography festivals 2019
Finalist Italian street photography festivals 2020
Excellence Award Winner among 10 Asian Cities as a part of “ Welcome Asia Campaign”
Featured in the International Lens Culture Exposure Award 2018 Competition (Online Gallery)
24hour project – New York

Published

Published in Creative Image Magazine ( Raghu Rai – Magnum Member)
Published in Chiiz Magazine

Featured

National Geographic Yourshot
Getty Reportage

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I love to shoot candid moments. Being a street photographer i love to shoot energy and active moments in my frames.
Love to shoot color and monochrome photographs. My photographs are my reflection which shows emotions, feelings and fears.
June 22, 2020
Sadik Ucok
Sadik Ucok

Sadik Ücok was born in Adapazarı in 1963. His interest in art and photography started at an early age
and he began to draw cartoons in his school days.
His professional cartoon works appeared in the Çarşaf Humor magazine of Hürriyet Gazette in 1980.
He has also drawn professional cartoons in various cartoon magazines such as “Gırgır” and “Fırt”.
He has developed a serious interest in photography since 1985 and he has been working as a professional photographer since 1992.
Sadik Üçok has won awards in national and international contests and has participated in many exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad.
He has been member of the jury in a number of prestigious photography contests.
He established “FOTOSEK” photo sharing group in Facebook in 2010.
He has been awarded “the Sami Guner” trophy in 2013, one of the prestigious photography awards in Turkey,
for his presentations of “The Blacksmith of Safranbolu”, “Pavli Fair” and “The old and the New Galata Bridge”.
He organized six co-exhibitions in Germany and Turkey together with photographer Ralf J. Diemb between 2014 and 2019
and in the meantime he collaborated with Ralf J. Diemb in editing a photography book “Hayat = Life” which was published in Germany in 2014.
They opened a long-term photograph exhibition called my dear Istanbul, at the Istanbul Photography Museum in 2018.
He has edited several books such as “Engravings on photographs from Turkey”, “Venetian routes in the Mediterranean” and “Ottoman rulers’ tombs “.He worked as a volunteer in virtualizing 100 masterpieces from the collection of the Hatay Archaeology Museum. This virtual project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish Republic.
Sadik Üçok keeps making graphic design and illustrations for books, magazines and the advertisement sector.
In addition to teaching photography and Photoshop he works on documentary and street photography.

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I call myself a social life photographer rather than a street photographer. The next generation will read the history with the photos we take today. The mission of the photographer is the same as a historian. So the photographer is a visual historian. Life is flowing fast and it’s my responsibility to record social life for future generations.
The photo is miracle, and the miracle of this miracle is black and white. I am not against color photography but my passion is black and white. B&W has no deficiency, but on the contrary, all colors are already in an excellent B&W.
June 22, 2020
Pepe Hanze
Born and raised in downtown Guayaquil, Ecuador, with Lebanese roots form both my mother and my father side of the family I am used to be around people all the time.Growing up I was not into sports, which made me spend a a lot of time , sometimes an entire days watching through my room window what happened outside on the streets. I t was the 1990’s when I found a rangefinder camera in on of my mothers drawers. Since then I have a camera attach to my hand. At that time it was safe to go out by myself to explore the streets alone. I think my photography is the result of my childhood memories, long walks and the person I became when I met my wife. Streets tell stories and being able to tell , document and develop them is my passion. At 18 I learned to develop film and print in a darkroom, I made an improvise darkroom in my bathroom. I like to document people and being welcome to their most personal spaces, as a lonely spectator, at their own silence like old street photography. I have a fascination for shadows, lines and shapes. With my photography I am able to materialize what I feel.
Exhibitions:
The Avant-Garde and Latin America Photography. Poetics and Discourse of the Modern Gaze. 15 Noviembre 2014 Miami.
Nominimo Circa 2016 Samborondon Ecuador.
Nominimo Circa 2017 Samborondon Ecuador.
Galeria de La Fuente Solo exhibition “Recuerdos de Cuba.

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June 22, 2020
Nicolas Ettori
I was born in 1987 in Montpellier (south of France) where i grew up and now i live in Paris. Self-taught, my passion for photography comes from my love of skateboarding: wanting to capture tricks in motion and freeze them forever. Later my interests went beyond the sport to where I find myself today in the world of street photography. I like to capture the moments of life, to compose and frame the world with what the street offers at every moment.
I try to highlight the details, play between the light and shade, observe the reflections, and let the geometry dictate the angle of my shots, all of which come together to create my own style.
I’ve recently started analog photography because it needs to be triggered more carefully and i like having to wait the development of the film before seeing the result.

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June 22, 2020
Andrea Morbidelli
I’m an Italian boy passionate of street photography, living in a small town situated on the Adriatic Sea.
I started taking street photos in August 2019, when I bought my first Fujifilm camera that I always bring with me. When I went in Berlin with one of my friends, a talented street photographer, and I found my approach to photography.
I travel a lot since I was a child, and I am very curious to know the differences of other peoples, photos are the medium I use to approach with these different cultures.
The scenes I see during my travels are always best through my camera lens, because I became able to capture moments of unknown peoples life without interfering with them. I’m also a bit shy so, street photography in particular, is my way to approach with strangers, to understand them a little while I continually try to improve my camera skills.

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About The Collection

These photos are a collection of moments I lived with my camera in the last year, my way to see the world around me and to understand it, peoples, customs, ways to do and appear, everything in a single moment.
June 21, 2020
Murat Harmanlikli
I am a Turkish photographer, currently based in Kocaeli. Interested in photography approximately for 20 years. Until a few years ago i had been shooting with analog cameras and using dark room in order to develop and print my photos. After 2016, i’ve started to shoot with digital cameras. I only produce black and white photos since i think i can express myself better.
As long as i’ve known myself, i’ve always loved to walk along the streets like a stray dog. While merging into crowds, amongst which I hide and lose myself and driven by the mass of people, I can feel the soul and the sense of the streets. I think this is the summary of my photography.

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June 20, 2020
Marina Bulduk
Well, I’m Belarusian but I reside in Istanbul/Turkey now. The motto for my life is CARPE DIEM (seize the moment). Maybe that’s why street photography is one of my great passions in life. I’m desperately in love with street photography because it is unpredictable. That’s what makes it a challenge. Leaving your house you have no idea what you might see during your street hunt. Letting go and being present in the streets is a liberating feeling. You’re capturing fleeting moments that will never occur the same way again. Well, I took my first candid photos only at the beginning of 2018 but I wish I had discovered it sooner.
Mostly I try to catch some moments of everyday life of Istanbul in more or less artistic way…and I love experimenting with my camera (trying to create something out of nothing). My gallery is pretty chaotic but most of all I’m addicted to silhouettes, shadows and reflections. With street photography you learn to appreciate these little things and details that are always around us but are usually taken for granted. Stay focused, folks!

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Silhouettes
That’s what all we’ll be. Just some silhouettes, rarely seen, but yet believed in.
June 20, 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.