Photographers are artists with the camera, using a blend of technical skills and an artistic eye to take pictures of people, places, landscapes, food, you name it. Photographers can work as fine artists, wedding and event photographers, or sell their photos to commercial clients.
Awards, exhibitions, Barry’s work stands tall and talks for itself.
Barry has an immense understanding of natural and artificial light,
he delves in and out of the realm of religion exploring human nature and bringing us along for the ride.
Barry is a member of the international photography collective Burn My Eye .
Hersley-Ven Casero is a multidisciplinary visual artist, street & documentary photographer born and based in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Growing up in a small rural village in the Visayas region, his passion for photography began during his time in college, where his artistic eye was noticed by LA Times photographer Luis Sinco, and he was sponsored equipment and mentored by him. Upon graduating, Hersley did a stint as an Art & Photography course teacher at Foundation University, and also conducted – along with his mentor, and Magnum photographer Eli Reed – a series of South Pacific Photography Workshops. Now, as a full-time artist, when he’s not in his studio, he is out on the streets with his camera in hand. Over the years, Hersley has developed a reputation in his home city as a prolific and passionate street and documentary photographer, quick to the scene of historical events, and from time-to-time his photographs are featured in local newspapers, as well as national and international publications. His long-term passion project is his ‘Catch a Moment’ street photography series, in which he catches split-second snapshots of elements aligning in humorous and uncanny ways in everyday life.
As I mature as a photographer, and as a person, I find myself becoming increasingly aware of the transience of human beings, particularly in the context of wherever they may be, or whatever they may be doing, at any given time. I am fascinated by the fact that every time I click the shutter in front of a stranger moving and interacting within their environment, I have captured a little piece of the absolute randomness of life, a snapshot of an otherwise unremarkable moment in history, that is timely, comical, tricky to the eye or just plain beautiful. It really is an incredible feeling when suddenly, out from the mundane, the Universe delivers a fleeting and uncanny moment of magic and *click*, it’s not lost forever, but a recorded and tangible piece of art.
Myself Bunty Gandhi. I live in Navsari which is a small city of Gujarat. Photography for me started out of some life changing setbacks in 2017. Initially, for a few months, I was shooting whatever I came across, but slowly I developed interest in street photography… but I was still far away from what you called real street! It’s later in end of 2018, I understood what street photography actually is.
As a street photographer, I try to bring echoes and feelings places in contrasts to my pictures. I don’t have specific collection. I shoot anything which I find interesting and which connect to me. But, it’s real hard to shoot streets here in small city with many limitations so I keep changing my ideas and perspective to get most out of it.
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.
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.
Rudy Boyer is a 35 year old father of three living in Nice (France).
He is in charge of a concrete analysis laboratory in the building sector, but since 2013, when he finds the time (he is also a musician!), Rudy photographs the streets of his city and region in a remarkable way and has been polishing his style over the years.
He uses light and urban geometry to compose complex images which are full of surprises.
He is self-taught and resolutely unprofessional in his approach to photography.
This series is not one, it is rather a collection of images made through time, hours of patience and miles of walking.
These images bear witness to our time, while trying to keep a touch of humor.
I’m not trying to get a main idea from these images but only pleasure, pleasure in capturing them but also in showing them.
Anthimos Ntagkas was born in Athens in 1979. He graduated from the Military Academy and currently works at the Geographical Agency of the Greek Army.
His first engagement with arts was in 2013 with his participation at the “Atopic Bodies”, a performance at Atopos CVC.
He continued with the publication “My Body is my Temple”, a photographic book, in collaboration with Atopos CVC as part of the “Notemple”, an exhibition of the artist HOPE, at the Breeder Gallery.
Since 2014 Anthimos Ntagkas is experimenting on street photography.
In 2018 he was asked to exhibit his photographic work at the movie theatre “Andora” where it remained as the main decor of the lobby.
He then participated at the Corinth Exposed Photography Festival 2019, presenting part of his work as one of the keynote speakers.
Since then many magazines and web pages have published his work (Bored Panda, Daily Mail, Athens Voice, Lifo, etc.)
“The photographs that I found most interesting are the ones with juxtaposition.
The connection between two different themes or even more inside one photo is very intriguing.
I get influenced by a lot of photographers who relate to this subject of photography, but my main concern is always to do something completely different each and every time.
Luckily the themes at this type of photography are endless and I never loose interest in photography.”
I grew up in Buenos Aires, became a photographer in Europe, and I am now living between New York and Brussels.
I have learned a lot in many street and documentary photography workshops over the years. From MAGNUM to IN-PUBLIC, from APF to LEICA AKADEMIE and, more recently, at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.
Many photographers have influenced my work over years of interaction and, lately, I am inspired by Rohit and Vineet Vohra.
My work has been exhibited around the world in 17 countries of Europe, America, and Asia, including 4 Individual exhibitions and 40 Collective exhibitions.
I won the Second Prize at the Brussels Street Photography Festival 2019 and was Finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival, StreetFoto San Francisco, Italian Street Photo Festival, and Brussels Street Photography Festival several times.
I am Ambassador and Jury of Women Street Photographers, curated by Gulnara Samoilova, based in New York, and Curator of Latin American Women Photographers (Fotografas Latam) for its international exhibitions.
I am a member of Little Box Collective, a group of street photographers from all over the world.
I am also a Curator and Jury of photography exhibitions, and I conduct Photography Workshops and Mentorships, in-person, and online.
My life has influenced the way I look at the people around me.
I have always lived in big cities like Buenos Aires, Madrid, Brussels and New York, with a large floating population, which naturally led me to empathize with the struggle and challenges of people on the move.
Living now in New York, I am at the epicentre of this human dynamic. People flock every day to the great city from all over the world, in search of their own dream, showing resilience and courage, overcoming all odds. They need to succeed, failure is not an option.
With street photography, I share the vision I have of my country through the faces of those who live here. My approach is extreme and direct. I get very close, physically, to the people I photograph.
With the flash I try to highlight that mask of vanity that each of us has built as self-defense.
However, thanks to moments of vulnerability and the reactions that the camera captures in the faces, the images are seasoned with a touch of dramatic irony, and a grotesque vision of real humanity.
I’m not a silent photographer outside the scene. I am aware that this ‘hard’ photographic approach has raised some criticism and controversy, and is considered by some to be aggressively abusive, even immoral.
I think instead it is an honest approach. Photography does not lie, it exposes what can be seen as real. My intention is to find truth, not to be derisive or demeaning.
This is still an active project, and I do not know how and when it will finish.
I born in Hong Kong in 1958, and has been retired from a career in banking since 2014.
My first contact with photography was in 1977.
I have not been very serious on my photography for over 30 years.
I regain my photography interest from 2009 mainly on birds photography but change to photograph people in street from mid 2014 which now known as “Street Photography”.
All matters in our life will be disappeared in a moment, however, I can retain some of my feelings and express my point of view through the lens.
I follow my gut instinct and my feelings to record the people and things in street.
I never ask for permission from the people I took their pictures as it would ruin the natural expression on them.
Sometimes I find a stage with good light and shadow, I would wait the right people walk through my frame.
I like street photography as thing happened and people in the street everyday are different and fresh even though in the urban I have been living for over 30 years.
I took all my pictures mainly in Hong Kong.
I like to take pictures in Central District as this area full of new and old buildings, local and foreign people, different vehicles, attractive light and shadows in different period of the year.
A good picture for me no need be artistic or esoteric, however, it should bare with emotion and passion of the photographer.
I believe that a picture without emotion is dead.
My favourite subjects are light, shadows and people with attractive expression and gestures. I considers street photography an activity where I can continue to learn my whole life long.
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.
Italian Street Photography Festival
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 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 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 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 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.