Katerina Christina is a 25-year-old, Greek-American fine art street, documentary, and studio photographer based in San Francisco. She first picked up a camera in early 2018 in search of a creative outlet to balance her mechanical engineering studies at Stanford University. What started as a hobby is now a daily source of inspiration and appreciation of the world around her. Her street photography focuses on slowing down to appreciate the small but powerful moments we often miss consumed in technology—the quiet moments in the chaos. Her perspective in street photography is shaped by the chaos of the years before and at Stanford when she rarely took the time to appreciate the swiftly passing moments around her. Now she documents these moments every day with the hope that others will be inspired by her images to slow down and take in the world around them with admiration and respect.
Her long-term documentary project ‘Shattered Glass’ tells the stories of women around the world who are shattering barriers and expectations in male-dominated roles, giving fellow females the role models, exposure, and resources they need to break into these fields, all while unapologetically embracing their femininity.
Outside of photography, Katerina creates line drawings with both pen and charcoals. Her style mirrors that of her photography, using minimalism to evoke emotion and intrigue.
Tag: black and white
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.
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Katerina Christina
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Elwira Kruszelnicka
Photography is my passion, my daily work and the best way to find peace and harmony. I take photos intuitively and with my camera I am like a child with a toy. Once I looked for frames hastily and hungrily, now I know that only when I slow down, I see so much more. It turned out I do not have to go far to catch an interesting moment. A stroll on a nearby beach, city, watching people – it may bring much joy.
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”Anonymous heroes of everyday life” is a project that was born some time ago. When I looked through a few street pictures, I suddenly saw something common and universal in them. I felt certain anonymity of the man in urban public spaces. I think big urban spaces and fast pace of life make our anonymity grow. The city itself is becoming more and more distant to human nature and though we try to make up for its comfort with technology we feel alienated. However, in the middle of the day when you look closely enough, you can see nameless heroes separated from the urban bustle. In the pictures they can look a little bit lonely, though it didn’t have to be the way they felt. In everyday life we pass around a lot of people like that: thoughtful, busy or staying in reflection. Choosing the right way to look: from the distance, against the sun, reflected in a puddle, or focusing on the human shadow, helps us to see it more clearly.
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Federico Feliciotti
I’m an italian amateur street photographer. I live in a small town in central Italy and I started to love street photography about a year ago, during one of my travels. Since then I started experimenting and photographing everywhere. Street photography, in particular, makes you understand what you have around you, allows you to pay attention to detail. For me it’s a means of grasping reality better and experiencing it more deeply.
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My photos are a summary of my path in this first year of photography. Starting from a more ‘’classic’’ style, gradually I approached a mnore conceptual and studied style, where I always start from an idea in my mind.
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Giannis Angelakis
Giannis Angelakis is from Chania. He was born in 1979 and has lived most of his life at Chania. He spent some years in England where he did a degree at Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Wolverhampton (BSc) and studied at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham. From a very young age he works as a journalist and for the past years he is an official “Fuji-X Photographer”. His work is mainly focused on daily life at the island of Crete as well as covering news stories.
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Chania, beyond the tourist fantasy
Crete, in the years of the financial crisis of 2008 became even more depended on the tourism industry. Everything seemed to evolve around tourism because this was the only “industry” that was making money at a time where salaries were collapsing and unemployment was going to the roof. One side effect of this huge dependence of economy from tourism was that life in Chania was somehow reduced to an image that fits the idea of a touristic destination. People in Crete, according to the dominant narrative, are always smiling, dancing, drinking raki and playing music, enjoying the sun and having fun. Positive stereotypes can become negative when seen from another prism and stereotypes of the joyful native can turn into stereotypes about laziness. The constant repetition of similar images of picturesque sunny beaches, glorious sunsets and almost caricaturist portraits of “indigenous people” imprints in the minds of visitors that this is really Crete. It casts a shadow to everything else that doesn’t serve the dominant narrative and forces people to comply and adjust to the collective fantasy that move the wheels of economy. In a global level, people are more and more location independent. Just before the coronavirus epidemic, we lived in a time of constant travel and flexibility. Travel is not anymore a matter of having a vacation but is more and more becoming a matter of status. New technologies and social media created a market for the abundance of material created, which is dominated by images of places that should be in a “bucket list”. This was a reality that the dominant division was between those “independent” and able to travel who could reach a higher level of consciousness which surpassed national or local boundaries towards an identity of a cosmopolitan citizen and the natives, those who are bound to a place, who can’t work from a distance, who belong in communities and depend from them. My effort is to bring back to the surface some of the richness of life that does not fit the dominant narrative of what a travel destination is.
Here, you will find a combination of photos from everyday life in the town of Chania. It is a peculiar mixture of pictures which seem disconnected but I perceive that they somehow capture the complexity of living in a place like Chania from a quite dark perspective. -
Simon King
I am a British Documentary and Street Photographer, with an interest in surrealism, action, and humour. I am also a photography educator, through writing and leading courses, and work on reducing down complex ideas relating to sociology and philosophy and figuring out the best way to help students interpret those ideas through the camera.
I started making photographs in my last year of university, and since then have made photographs in the worlds of fashion, production, journalism, activism, still life, portraiture, and worked on many other side projects.
My current work involves a combination of many ideas and will hopefully result in some meaningful and personal storytelling results.[thb_button_text link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fstreetdances.wordpress.com|title:Simon%20King%20website|target:%20_blank|”][thb_button_text link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fsimonking_v|title:Simon%20King%20Instagram|target:%20_blank|”]About The Collection
My selection of images here were all made in 2019, on 35mm black and white film. 2019 represents a transition in my work, as I began to move away from images based around aesthetic to photographing moment-to-moment happenings. I work with manual focus rangefinders, which means I spent a lot of time working on my ability to pre-empt action, anticipate potential, and force myself to never stop searching for possibilities.
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Naoya Takahashi
I live in Saitama Prefecture, Japan and mainly photograph the city of Tokyo. I started photography seriously around 2015, initially taking cityscapes, and around 2018 I discovered street snaps. I was fascinated by the moments and encounters that transcend the imagination.
The purpose of my street snapping is to “share a perspective”. It’s also a suggestion that when you take the camera, you notice interesting moments in the city, and the city is very beautiful when you look through the viewfinder.
It’s not just the dramatic scenes that are interesting. Silhouettes, colors, graphical structures, juxtapositions, and humor are also eligible. I think it is the part of Street Snap’s role to present them. My hope is that sharing a perspective will enrich someone’s heart a little bit.[thb_button_text link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Ftakahashi_naoya_candid%2F|title:Naoya%20Takahashi%20instagram|target:%20_blank|”] -
Gladys Yelland
My name is Gladys Yelland and I live in Edinburgh which is such a beautiful city. I am an amateur photographer who is generally self taught, but I have done some workshops with Ami Stratchen whose work I greatly admire and she gave me the confidence and encouragement to go out and shoot street.. I spend a lot of time doing street photography, as I love watching people and how they interact with their surroundings, and watching how the story unfolds. As I feel one capture can say a thousands words – timeless. I was currently doing a street photography course, however with the current situation I have had to delay it for now.
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The collection of photos I have uploaded where capture from 2018 to 2020 around the cities of Edinburgh, Sorrento and Paris, illustrating general
buzzing life of the city, the different seasons we encounter within the city, the signs of the times ie. social issues from the different classes, or the generation gaps. As well as the variety of people we meet and the play of light, -
Dimpy Bhalotia
Dimpy Bhalotia is an award-winning street photographer of Indian origin. After completing her schooling from Bombay, she moved to London to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Fashion. Having worked in the fashion and interior’s industry for many years with renowned designers in London, she found her love in street photography, and she believes the black and white medium found its love in her.
She is a self-taught independent travelling photographer. She sees the world in monochrome and finds art in the extraordinary details of the seemingly ordinary life on streets. She believes the universe is a piece of art and so is every soul and street. It is this inspiration that makes photography her ‘fitoor’ (passionate obsession) and drives her to wake up before the sun’s rays touch the earth!
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Dominique Misrahi
My name is Dominique Misrahi, I was born and raised in Marseille, France until out of a midlife crisis I decided 20 years ago to move to NY where I still reside now.
My background is in dance and fitness. I taught for many years until I had my children.
I always loved photography since a very young age and it’s only been 3 years that I really started to take it more seriously.
I studied with Bruce Gilden, Jamel Shabbaz, Richard Renaldi and attended a few classes at ICP. I was part of all the exhibits around the word with the women street photographers curated by Gulnara Samoilova. She has been since a mentor and an amazing influence and support.[thb_button_text link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fdominique_nyc%2F|title:Dominique%20Misrahi%20instagram|target:%20_blank|”]About The Collection
It all started with a Bruce Gilden assignment, he sent me out to take vertical portraits and I think I found my call. I am a people person and I have no problem to talk to strangers in the streets. I want to show beauty in diversity and real life. Each face tells a story, let s leave the imagination.
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Panagiotis Kotsiris
Panagiotis Kotsiris is an Athens (Greece) based photographer who is interested in minimal street photography, mostly black and white.His work is mainly geometrical and of high contrast.
He is involved in photography since 2013.He tries to capture the urban city life by focusing on human presence.
Among his inspirations are Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans and Andre Kertesz.
He works in the private sector[thb_button_text link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fnma07_%2F|title:Panagiotis%20Kotsiris%20instagram|target:%20_blank|”]About The Collection
What comes first? The spot or the man?
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Kramer O’Neill
Kramer O’Neill grew up in the northeastern United States with a darkroom in the basement and the nagging suspicion he wasn’t getting the full story. Decades later and a continent away, little has changed.
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Where They Fall
Where They Fall considers people and the places they fall: from the air, on the issues, into the water, in line, in love, off the earth, out of fashion, to the ground, into dreams, from here, for you. -
Leng Ung
I am is a Chinese Cambodian self taught photographer who immigrated to France during the Khmer genocide.
I started experimenting with photography at the age of 25 after joining a French photo club. My primary goal at this moment was to improve my vacation photos. But then, i fell in love with photography and learned black and white film craftsmanship – which I believe to be a cornerstone for my today digital black and white work. I learned how to process film and use the enlarger in the darkroom. And still today, I am applying the same approach to interpret my digital black and white images.
Today, I am currently based in Montreal, Canada after spending few years in Chicago, USA.[thb_button_text link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fleng.ung.312%2F|title:Leng%20Ung%20instagram|target:%20_blank|”]About The Collection
My recent work « Corridors of light, metaphor of life» is meant to question the validity of relationships. As a migrant – immigrating from Cambodgia to France because of the Khmer genocide, then France to the USA and recently from the USA to Canada, I experimented many separations with friends. Each time, it is the same interrogation: which relationship will be strong enough to survive the distance? So, I made this series to be a metaphor for (my) life. Like a play, each corridor of the light in the city is an act. A scene. What I tried to do while shooting these images was to imagine that pedestrians were actors, actors who were all the time entering and exiting the city stage. I felt a relationship with these strangers who seemed to evanescently enter my life through one side of the stage, only to briefly occupy that spotlight and then leave on the other side of the stage. Fade to black. Gone.
While the vertical frame of these images portrays the scene—a North American city—the negative spaces should not only be seen to represent the immutable past, but also the unpredictable future. And consequently, my blacks are not merely shadow but voids – voids as the memories of me in the mind of people I left behind, voids as the memories I had from my early years in Cambodia…
Many of us live in claustrophobic environments, in big cities with social media almost automatically finding relationships for us. Sure, it may appear that we have more and more “friends,” and for some of use, these friends span the world over. However, despite the new communication technology, I often wonder who accompanies us in the life journey? And how strong are these bonds? can relationships survive distance and the shadows of our daily life?
This series is really questioning the validity of our relationship to modern spaces. And as a deracinated person myself, this questioning is also an introspective inquiry.
