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Jonas Grauel

Jonas Grauel

I‘m a trained sociologist working in a consumer protection organisation in Düsseldorf, Germany. I‘m interested in all the weird phenomena of modern societies‘ consumption – luxury, taste, indulgence, waste, advertising… and the unfortunate consequences for animals, nature and climate and how to relieve them. Also, I‘m a trainer for non-violent communication, a guitarist-singer-songwriter – and of course a street photographer!

Little Wonders only the Open Eye can see

To me, street photography is pure play. I roam the streets aimlessly and endlessly as we were doing when we were kids… here and there I will detect something interesting – be it an object, animal or a bunch of people. I’ll go closer to inspect the scene, ready to find surreal moments or see connections between things apparently unconnected.
Among the motives that fascinate me are half-hidden people, extremities popping out of somewhere, tigers, money, advertisements, strong colors, left-behind shoes, graffitis, light and shadow and many more.

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A Dark Figure passing by

February 3, 2022
Jonas Grauel
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Columns, Poles and Trees – Vertical Lines in the Street

Each of the pictures of Columns, Poles and Trees“ combines a formal element of composition – the vertical line – with the spontaneity of street photography. Thus, the series aims to explore the interplay of formality and freedom. In composition, strong lines divide the basic area of a picture into several smaller sections. Harald Mante, author of The Photograph: Composition and Color Design“ writes that vertical lines suggest closeness and warmth – contrasting the effect of horizontal lines suggesting distance and coolness. This resonates well with the intention of street photography to draw us into various urban scenes. Street photography also intends to capture unique moments within everyday life and tells little stories about them. In the series the vertical elements are integrated into these little stories. We see people partly hidden behind a tree, leaning against a pole or fingers grabbing a pole.
November 20, 2021

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.

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

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

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

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).

Jonas Grauel

Little Wonders only the Open Eye can see

Jonas Grauel

Columns, Poles and Trees – Vertical Lines in the Street

Masoud Gharaei

Photographer and writer

Stefano Mirabella

Andrea Bruce

National Geographic, The New York Times

David Campany

International Center of Photography

Anna Godfrey

Prestel Editor

Nikos Economopoulos

Magnum Photos

Masoud Gharaei

Street Photographers Foundation