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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.

Alexander Petrosyan
After taking up photography in the year 2000, Alexander Petrosyan realized that, in order to truly understand the world around him, he must first try to capture it through the camera lens, something at which he has continuously succeeded. Petrosyan finds true joy in exploring and portraying his subjects in innovative ways, photographing not only the beautiful but also the grotesque aspects of life.
Working for My District magazine from 2003 to 2008, Petrosyan became a true professional, able to accurately present the three-dimensional with only two dimensions, and to illuminate the infinite levels of his environment in a single photograph.
At present, Petrosyan is a staff photographer for “Kommersant”, where he continues to push the limits of his surroundings, proving that there is something extraordinary about even the most, seemingly, ordinary aspects of life.

Publications
Petrosyan’s work has been featured in a multitude of acclaimed publications, including, but not limited to: «Newsweek», «National Geographic», «GEO», «Le Monde», «Russian Reporter”, “Spark”, “Money”, “Power“, “Kommersant”, “News”, “Arguments and Facts”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, and “Business Petersburg”.

Honors
2017 – Winner of the St. Petersburg contest of journalists “Golden feather” in the category “Photo of the year”.
2015 – Winner of the international photo contest “Heritage of generations” in the category “Historical heritage”.
2014 – winner of the IV international photo contest.Karl Bulla “Era visible features “in the category “News”.
2009, 2012 – The first open national award “Best photographer” – 1st place in the “architecture”, 1st and 2nd place in the “Genre.“
2009 – Grand Prix prize fund of photojournalism, as 1st place in the “Daily life”, “Nature and the environment,” third place “For art and culture.”
2008 – Winner of the second All-Russian contest “My City. A look through the lens. ”
2007 – The winner of the St. Petersburg Award “Photographer of the Year” (nominated: photo).
2006 – The winner of the St. Petersburg Award “Photographer of the Year” (nominated: photo).
2003 – Medal of Honour (Award of Exellence) in the category “photojournalism” by 25 world competition «Society of New Design» in Syracuse (New York, USA).

In 2011, the trading house “The Bronze Horseman” published a book of Petrosyan’s photographs, “St Pete”. In 2016, the publishing “Print Gallery” released second book, “Kunstkamera”.

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April 28, 2020
Angel Pasos
My name is Angel Pasos. I’m an amateur photographer based in Madrid and co-founder of Urban Disorder, a photography collective.
Passionate about photography, I spend so much time in the street, that sometimes I think I’m more of a vagabond than a photographer.
Self-taught, I mainly learn from my friends and from analyzing “the classics”. At times I would like to be like Bruce Davidson and others like Alex Webb, but when I see their pictures, I realize that I will have achieved enough if one day I just look like myself. Meanwhile, I take pictures because I can’t stop taking them.

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April 28, 2020
Pedro Cantizani
Pedro Cantizani is a Brazillian photographer based in New York City.
With a background in marketing, Pedro soon realized his passion was for the visual arts.
Through cinematography programs and personal venture,
he discovered his talent for photography and has been in pursuit of creating fine art street photography in the lively streets of NYC.

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April 28, 2020
Andreas Kamoutsis
Andreas Kamoutsis was born and raised in Athens, Greece in 1979. He has been engaged in Photography since 2013 and he has been an official photographer of Fujifilm “X-photographer” since 2016. Numerous of his photographs have been published in various means-online and in press such as newspapers and magazines which specialize in photography, both in Greece and abroad. He has given a series of talks, by presenting his photographic work in many cities in Greece. The emergence of emotions and the mystery combined with simplicity and harmony, set his primary goal at each of his photos. The way he takes photos shows an effort of personal adjustment to the constant changing environment of modern reality.

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About The Collection

The love of life and photography made me fulfil many projects out on the streets around the world like Cuba, Morocco, Turkey etc.
For me street photography cannot be defined or confined. Therefore, I started shooting the active life around me. I ‘d describe it as love of conceiving the simple and spontaneous which is unnoticed before our eyes and is converted into something special in the viewer’s eyes. I might call it “art of observation”. The result of a cerebral response. A constant challenge that keeps provoking my senses as a photographer.
I use to study light and shadow in each of my photographs, as both of them were essential in highlighting elements such as the texture, the color and the architecture that dominated around in every city.
My point is to find different people and cultures and tell their stories in common places through my lens in a personal way.
April 28, 2020
Larry Hallegua
Larry Hallegua’s photographs have been described as “bittersweet moments” and “fanciful characters frozen into bizarre activities”.They have been exhibited in Germany, at the esteemed Iserlohn Stadtische gallery, as well as many other countries including the USA, and the UK. In 2014, Larry became a finalist in Fotoura’s International Street Photography Awards, as well as the winner of Magnum’s Swapshop contest in 2017 and the series winner of Bangkok’s Street Photography Festival in 2020. He’s also a member of the Observe street photography collective

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About The Collection

MADE IN CHENGDU
In 2014 I moved to China to teach English in a primary school for one year. I was based in the west, in Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province.
During this time Chengdu had a growing population of over 14 million, and was one of China’s ‘pilot reform regions’. The city was experiencing rapid economic growth, resulting in heavy investment in infrastructure, such as a fast expanding metro and rail system, as well as the building of new schools to cater for the large migration of rural workers and increasing urbanisation.
I was among only a handful of foreigners living in Xipu on the outskirts of the city, and would receive daily stares from locals who rarely saw or mixed with foreigners. I used my camera to record, albeit in a whimsical manner, some of the behaviours of a city experiencing a growing sense of self confidence.
April 28, 2020
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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About The Collection

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.
April 28, 2020
Birka Wiedmaier
My name is Birka Wiedmaier, I am a native German and before recently moving to Berlin, have lived for many years abroad.
I am a mainly self-taught photographer and photography became a passion, about 10 years ago while living in Moscow. My inspiration comes from the people in the cities where I live. The people of a city, town or village are what define the face and life of their respective places, I like to capture them in candid moments, unnoticed.
Over the years my work has been exhibited in several countries, including Russia, US, UK, Germany, France and Malaysia.

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About The Collection

Before moving to Berlin, I lived for one year in Istanbul and instantly was fascinated by the city and its people. I loved to roam the streets and capture little scenes. You can find amazing light, get caught in the markets or packed streets and watching children playing.
April 28, 2020
Rangefinderx
My name is Mehmet Esen, AKA Rangefinderx.
I was born in 1985 in Istanbul. Based in Istanbul, Turkey.
My interest in photography started with the street photo book my girlfriend bought me and I have been taking street photographs for 8 years.
I’m a jewelry designer, but i quit my job a year ago and just focused on photography.
I travel the world and take pictures.
Street photography is my lifestyle and passion.

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April 28, 2020
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.

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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.
April 27, 2020
Anthimos Ntagkas
Anthimos Ntagkas

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.”

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April 16, 2020
Ximena Echague
Ximena Echague

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.

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About The Collection

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.
April 16, 2020
Salvatore Matarazzo
Salvatore Matarazzo

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.

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September 8, 2019

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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.