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is a type of photograph that records everyday life in a public place. The very publicness of the setting enables the photographer to take candid pictures of strangers, often without their knowledge. Street photographers do not necessarily have a social purpose in mind, but they prefer to isolate and capture moments which might otherwise go unnoticed.

Dan Morris
i’m Dan Morris, a professional wedding photographer based in the UK and cover destinations all over the world. I started street photography 18 months ago after travelling to various countries for weddings and wandering the streets on my days off with the camera. I thrive on the unknown around each corner and get intrigued by people merely going about their daily lives. Street photography has become a great passion of mine and I look for moments, light and composition. Often infused with humour. If all three come together in a single image then that certainly gets the pulse racing. A tag line I like to use is Seeking the stillness amongst the chaos. I think it sums up my mentality when heading out on the streets.

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About The Collection

This collection of my images were taken in a few different countries. Simply walking around and capturing things that stand out and appeal to my eye. Aiming to give the viewer an insight and story behind the image.
May 21, 2020
Brian Villalongja
I am Brian Villalongja from the Philippines. My humble Street Photography journey started in 2011 with my first precious camera kodak z700. and lots of youtube viewings to learn from the Masters and idols Henri Cartier Bresson, Elliott Erwitt and Alex Webb.
Indeed street photography materializes friends from other places of my country and internationally, who are adept of the joys of watching armed version of the solitary walkers. we are more than observer of the streets. we are observers of real moving life.

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May 21, 2020
Bishnu Goenka
My name is Bishnu Goenka (22). I am a freelance photographer from Kolkata, West Bengal, India trying all genre of Photography but mainly into the street, because to me street is an emotion. I loved clicking images back when I was a kid but took it seriously from the year 2018. After my 10+2 I started working in a corporate sector through those saving I purchased a camera and started with my career into photography. I am still a learner and a beginner, as Photography itself is a vast subject to know it completely. My work is published in EyeShot Magazine and few went for Exhibition. For me, YouTube and social media were always an educational source of knowledge.

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About The Collection

This Photo series is on Black and White Bengal through my perspective. All images are from West Bengal. Images submitted here are some with stories, some with technicalities and some with action.
May 21, 2020
Soumyendra Narayan Saha
I am Soumyendra Narayan Saha , 47, an erstwhile software engineer. I practice street photography mainly in Kolkata and Varanasi,India.
I had been a software engineer for 12 years when I quit my job partly out of disillusionment and partly because I was bored of crunching 0s and 1s. So with a lot of time to spare I decided to shoot the streets one day and that was it – I was hooked. I started watching photographs online, and also listened to Indian Classical music and watched movies at the local cine club. Today after 5 years on the street, there is hardly any street/lane/gully in Calcutta that I haven’t walked with a camera, or, maybe that is too ambitious .
There has been times when I felt there was nothing to carry on photography for, like when my 10-yr old daughter was diagnosed and treated with a rare and serious autoimmune brain disease but photography kept the spirit alive, the desire to find more and to document or story-tell more was always there.

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About The Collection

Simply put this is a result of a 3-year period of street photography that I put in after I had quit my regular day job for personal reasons. I had lot of spare time in my hands and I also had DSLR camera like almost anyone. And I had a lot of visual hunger to satiate after having watched far too many movies. I wanted to see drama like the movies do, only more real and on the streets. To that extent one can say my street photography project was to find drama, humor, intrigue, mystery, surrealism on the Indian streets, particularly in Kolkata. I also wanted to discover the newly-adopted city where I moved in 3 years ago. So many of the places I visited were new which filled me with the urge to see more, shoot more.
I ended up purchasing quite a few photography books to fuel this hunger to see and document un-posed moments of surprise and emotion on the streets. Among them the ones that left a deep mark was “The Decisive Moment” by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Raghubir Singh’s India, Koudelka’s Exiles, Richard Kalvar, Diane Arbus.
For me today, photography, more so street photography, is akin to a sort of Zen meditation, where I need to go into a zone, a higher level of consciousness and focus, where I begin to see many things which I would otherwise miss and even predict at times. These are the moments I try to capture as best as I can, and meditate on later in front of my computer at home. It fills me with a sense of exalted meditation. A moment may be a simple arrangement of people and things and a particular quality of light but the end result it evokes whether it is a thought or feeling much much greater than the sum of parts. Therein lies the success, the thrill of street photography and the source of never-ending passion.
Whenever I go out to shoot I keep too things in mind. One is to keep a cultural context, which will remind me of the time and place the shot was taken. A lingering smell of the place and the smile of the people. The other thing I try to keep a constant focus on is geometry. For me geometry is the source of a lot of reality, the reality that we see day-in and day-out consists of a lot of geometrical structures and the underlying mathematics plays a role in our subconscious to shape the reality that we construct.
May 21, 2020
Tilo Nurmi
Live in black and white
There are people who dream in colors, others we do in black and white. Each blink is an instantly captured photograph. Thus, the open eyes capture an image and the heart reveals it, then it disappears. Technology, however, has allowed us to keep thah blink over time.
In the absence of color, the clock stops and the photo no longer belongs to a specific time or place. So it’s just a click, a breath, a sigh among people. It is only a small and minimal moment, like a piece of memory snatched away from the passage of history. Photography is a constant search for something that we don’t know where it is or when it will appear. Whether simple or fantastic, the important thing is that it be beautiful. Like the beauty of a precise and unrepeatable moment, like the honesty of a gesture or the mystery of a symbol or the prolongation of frozen movement: a thoughtful face, a steps going away, a back that leaves.

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About The Collection

The following photographs were taken between the social protests in Santiago de Chile and my extensive walks through Mexico City during the last year.
May 21, 2020
Alexandra Avlonitis
I began studying photography in 2015 after years as a fine art painter. Schooled in the essential elements of painting — color, light and composition — it was not a difficult transition. Whether inside the studio or out, the artistic tool box was the same.
As a native New Yorker, the genre of street photography was a natural fit.
I had always been captivated by the hum and buzz of the street; the energy of unremitting commerce; the mash-up of peoples and cultures. With a camera in place of a paint brush, I could capture the endlessly fascinating drama unfolding in the public sphere.

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May 21, 2020
Yusuf Duyar
I am a senior software engineer based in Istanbul, Turkey, and doing street photography as a hobby. I started photography two years ago. At the beginning I wanted to capture beautiful landscapes but after a while landscape pictures became so boring to me. And I found a fantastic and creative genre of photography – street photography. My works are especially focused on shadow and light, silhouettes and interesting moments of streets that impossible to repeat again. My daily job is very similar to street photography in terms of creativity. Photography is the only way for me to clear all the confusion in my brain. It is an invaluable experience for me to forget everything and think about photographs the moment I go out on the street.

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May 21, 2020
Marika Szymanek
I graduated photography school in Krakow, Poland and travelled extensively for the last years photographing and discovering my vision. Photography is definetely my favourite way of looking at the world and exploring new places. Wandering with the camera allows me to interact with people in a very unique way and almost always leads to places and situations that I would’t have noticed otherwise. Freezing the ordinary yet elusive moment and telling the stories of the people I photograph is probably the most fascinating journey of my life.

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About The Collection

The collection contains some of my favourite photographs from recent travels to 3 different continents: Asia, North Africa and Central America.
May 21, 2020
Kent Corley
Wandering the streets of cities big and small armed with a camera is a form of meditation for me. Before I knew there was such a thing as Street Photography I was already searching for meaning, design, beauty and humor through the lens of a camera. I now make a living as commercial photographer in North Carolina and am working on several personal projects including a series of surreal portraits in the era of COVID-19.

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May 21, 2020
Md Enamul Kabir
Md Enamul Kabir is a Dhaka based freelance photographer. He has completed his Advance course in photography from Begart Photography of Institute. For him, photography is all about moment and story which becomes the witness. He loves his photos to be concise and cohesive and he tries to achieve the best result possible with fewer subjects. Apart that Enamul loves to take photos of animals. His works has been exhibited and Awarded around the world.

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About The Collection

Co-existence
I have been afraid of dogs as far back as I can remember. Whenever I saw a dog on the street, I would walk the other way or wait till the dog went its own way. During my elementary school years, there were so many dogs in the school neighborhood and being extremely fearful of them, I used to wait around for someone, anyone, to come by so that I could cross the street full of dogs without being alone and frightened. I can’t explain it, but dogs just gave me the creeps, even though I’ve never been bitten.
My cynophobia continued well into 2014. However, after starting to attend Begart Photography Institute later that year, my feelings towards these canines took about turn. I found the deepest form of devotion from Moti, my instructor ImtiazAlamBeg’s dog and just fell in love with the beautiful creature. Never could I have imagined that a dog is capable of displaying more soul than most people.
I started this project after ImtiazBhaia’s dog Moti passed away. Moti taught me not only to shake off my unreasonable fear of dogs but also how to see the world differently.
Since the beginning of civilization, animals have been an integral part of human lives. My subconscious mind looked for the connection among this existence all around. Sometimes, we notice something that never happened before or never became visible to our eyes but if someone can feel this co-existence by heart, one would not be surprised to see the newness; rather one will welcome this newness. I gradually learnt to explore this world of coexistence. The creatures, elements and phenomena in the society began treating me as one of their. They unleashed their mysterious relationship of co-existence in front of my lens.
May 21, 2020
Betty Manousos
I’m an economist turned Street and Social Documentary photographer, founder/editor of CUT and DRY Blogzine, and a member of the Photographic Circle collective. I’m currently based in Athens, Greece. I have always loved Street photography, but it wasn’t until 2018 that I actually started to get dedicated to that genre, in an attempt to preserve what time steals but photographs can save. I’m passionate about exploring urban spaces and watching every day people’s lives unfold around me. My photographic vision focuses on capturing the essence of a person, the feeling, the soul, the spirit of a city, the everyday life as it evolves in urban and/or rural environments. Photography speaks. And Street photography is like an obsession. It is another way of seeing me after all.

AWARDS / PUBLICATIONS
2019 IPA AWARDS: I won an Honorable Mention Street, People category One Shot Street Competition IPA – International Photography Awards,
2018 IPA AWARDS: An Honorable Mention Self Promotion category IPA – International Photography Awards
2019 URBANAUTICA: A Special Mention Open Call “EXTINCTION. THE WORLD WITHOUT US” URBANAUTICA
My work has been published in print and digital magazines and websites such as EYE-SHOT Street Photography Magazine, EYE-PHOTO Magazine, LIFE-FRAMER, Street Photography Magazine. Also, it has been featured in several photo-related sites such as 121Clicks, Photographize , Wonderzofphotography , Photographic Mercadillo , e.t.c.

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About The Collection

This Collection explores urban encounters and vibrant, lively spaces where you can feel the pulse of a European capital. All photographs have been taken in Athens, Greece.
May 21, 2020
Gabi Ben Avraham
Gabi Ben Avraham

“The Street is not a Studio”
I am an Israeli photographer (59), I live in Tel Aviv and work in a software company. After flirting with an initial fascination with photography and film cameras in the 1980’s, I went on to pursue a career as an IT manager and put my love for the still image aside.
Fortunately, my interest never disappeared. While the passion lay dormant for decades, all it took was the gift of a camera from my wife to awaken my inclination towards photography again.
The Street is not a Studio. Sometimes I stand and wait for things to converge – a cyclist, a dancer, a child – moving along. Street Photography/Documentary is my favorite way of looking at the world.
My camera has become an integral part of me and I cannot imagine myself without it. Everywhere I go I take it with me thinking ‘maybe today will be my lucky day and I will take the photo of my life’.
Via the camera lens I am constantly looking around me, searching for that ‘decisive’ moment that will never return, unless I catch it.
When pushing the button, I try to make some sense, restore order to the chaotic scheme of things in the composition, tell the story behind the scene and frame a surrealistic moment.
The components ‘speak’ with each other in a special dialogue, either by color, shape, or light. Capturing the elusive, special moment after which things will never be the same and making it eternal – that is my goal.
Forgotten, transparent people in urban surroundings are being granted their moment of grace.
The shadows, fragile outlines, reflections within daily lives that are not noticed in the busy and thick urban landscape and sometimes are even crushed by it – these are precious to me. Those expressions and compositions are to be treasured before they are lost in time.
Like a fisherman who goes to his daily work without knowing what he will catch, I take my camera and dive into the streets without knowing what will happen five minutes later. It is an adventure.
When I click I try to see the surreal and to sort things out of their everyday meaning and their usual context. I have my favorite places and I never come with the same photos. It is always different: the people, the light and shadows, the atmosphere.
At a single click, I try to fill the insignificance around me with significance and create a private and intimate hallucination in order to share it with the viewer. Even though the moment fades, it is burnt in the memory of the viewer.
I shoot independently for a few years and teach in Street Photography workshops.

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May 9, 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.