The street photographer can be seen as an extension of the flâneur, an observer of the street .a person who 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.the street photographer is similar to social documentary photographers or photojournalists who also work in public places, but with the aim of capturing newsworthy events; any of these photographers’ images may capture people and property visible within or from public places.
photographers who 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.
I come from Paris. I started photography by chance 3 years ago now.I photograph what surrounds me.Each picture has a story you can tell yourself ,I show people what they can see if they are not absorbed by their phone or their thoughts
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.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal. I became a gastroenterologist and from 1983 lived in the city of Caldas da Rainha in the center of Portugal. However after retirement I resumed my sleeping passion for photography. During 2015/2016, my photographic “voice” has changed and my work has been “in colors” and I started by photographing my hometown (about 30 thousand inhabitants). As a result, a photo book with the name “99” was born (launch at January 2020), with 99 photographs. https://youtu.be/wVzhkovtzuQ The book includes an Essay by David Gibson and an Afterword by Paulo Abrantes.
I have been fascinated to discover the magic of light in the urban kaleidoscope mainly when fragments of colors emerge between deep shadows. A way of seeing through the primacy of aesthetic choices, geometries and the elaboration of contrasts. The plastic approach, the chromatic composition, the emotions and the graphic impact are decisive. These Photographs are featured in my photo book “99”. Info about the book and ordering at [email protected]. The book deserved some words from Matt Stuart: “What a nice surprise to receive, a beautifully produced photo book, laced with (99) wonderful colorful photographs. A mixture of Cristobal Hara, Alex Webb and Costa Manos all rolled into one! Great work”.
I’m a Portuguese photographer living in Lisbon and began my photography journey 4 years ago the moment I started to bike to work. The bicycle gave me the freedom and time to explore and see things in a different way. Since then I’ve never stopped photographing and trying different things. I’m always looking for light and shadows interacting with people and the way it changes the environment during the day.
It all started with that magic B/W masterpiece by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a photograph which I saw as a photographic beginner in a book in the early 1980s and which accompanied me through my whole life, giving this initial spark to my interest for showing people in the public realm. The black-and-white picture of a small boy, carrying home two huge wine bottles with an expression of pride and joy on his face. When I saw this picture, it struck me like lightning: How on earth could a photographer be there, see and catch such an intimate, candid moment? What he said to be The Decisive Moment. With the equipment available at that time. This was THE picture for me which changed everything, motivating me to go out and try to find great pictures around the next corner, never knowing what awaits me and what life has in store for me. After all, it’s all about curiosity.
As a teenager, I had a subscription of German GEO magazine, showing, among other things, the pictures taken by the famous German photojournalist Thomas Hoepker at regular intervals. These pictures also had a key influence on me. Although they were published in a documentary and journalistic context, they showed life on the streets of the world – street photography in the truest sense of the word –, whether in the German Democratic Republic of that time, New York, or Beijing. These were pictures which burned themselves into my memory and which I never forgot since then, providing me with internally memorized guardrails for my own photographic passion.
After a longer break dedicated to my professional career in the language industry, I had more time to spend on photography again about ten years ago and never stopped going out on the streets since then. My biggest influences today comes from names like Martin Parr, Matt Stuart, Nick Turpin, Dougie Wallace, Fred Herzog or Tony Ray-Jones, just to name a few. I also do love the work of the contemporary photographers represented by collectives such as iN-PUBLIC, UP Photographers, OBSERVE, Little Box or The German Street Photography Site.
What is more, I am a keen collector of photobooks. For me, it is important to explore the work from as many different photographers as possible, seeing and understand their approaches and photographic languages, which helped me to find my own way and decide which of my own photos are good or not so good, something which I still find hard to tell sometimes. Finally, I am a music enthusiast and couldn’t live without it. Music also has a big influence on my photographic language.
Two of my pictures were Finalists in the 2017 edition of STREETFOTO SAN FRANCISCO and the SIENA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS (SIPA) 2020.
My collection shows typical examples of my photographic work in public places. I see myself as a flaneur, an observer, trying to see things that others might not see, to make something out of nothing, find something special in the ordinary. All of my photos were taken candidly; nothing is staged or manipulated. Technology is not so important for me, after all, it’s the eye that decides and finds the picture. I shoot RAW and apply modest postprocessing. The major part of my photos shows people, which is an important element for me. From time to time, I find a street still-life or try to combine different layers in a minimal composition. I like ordinary street scenes, often waiting until all the elements come together, often revisiting places, often returning home with nothing.
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.
My name is Sudeep Lal. I’m based in New Delhi, India. I’m a self taught serious amateur. I started dabbling with photography sometime around 2014. Initially it was lot of travel and random photography. In the year2015 I was introduced to the genre of ‘Street Photography’ and the works of the great masters. I was immediately drawn to the genre and since then have settled down with Street photography. I predominately shoot in colour and the likes of Alex Webb, David Alan Harvey, Harry Gruyaert and Raghubir Singh have greatly inspired my work.
I have always been intrigued by the drama which quietly unfolds around us in our daily lives. It is exciting to walk the street not knowing what unexpected encounters await you just around the bend. This is an attempt to steal such moments and record it before it fades away into obscurity.
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.
Charalampos Kydonakis, architect from Crete, editor of the ‘dirty blog‘ , member of UP collective. Published monographs :
Warn’d in Vain / An Argonautica NYC tale
Back To Nowhere / A Minotaur inspired tale from Crete
B-sides from ‘Warn’d in Vain‘ ; an Argonautica inspired New York City story; a stranger’s questionmark inside the world’s most photographed city; made between the years 2014-2017 that I spent 7 months on the other side of the ocean. ‘Warn’d in Vain‘ is a parallel tale with ‘Back to Nowhere‘ is a Minotaur inspired story from my island, Crete, the only place i’ll never have the chance to see how it looks in the eyes of a stranger. (2009 – 2017).
My name is Victor Cambet, I am 25 years old, I am a graphic designer. I was born in France, in Lyon and I have now lived in Montreal for more than 3 years. I am passionate about street photography that I practice every day!
Capturing moments of fleeting life is my way of documenting our ever-changing daily life. My approach in a society saturated with image where perfection has become codified, is to highlight the true beauty of the human being, that which we come across everyday but that we no longer notice. I always try to isolate only one person in my photos to give an aspect of solitude facing the city.
Born in ’84 in sunny Napoli, Italy. I love being on the streets looking for interesting characters, ambiguous situations, paradoxes, juxtapositions and so on. Walking and watching and shooting pictures has turned into an amazing hobby. They call it street photography, at any rate, it became the right “therapy” to feel better about myself and the others and to make sense of things.
Born in Brussels in 1973, Nicolas is an agronomist by training. He then studied Development and Swahili at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has over twenty years of experience working for international organisations and NGOs. He has documented issues of rural poverty and agricultural sustainability in Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Mongolia or West Africa. A focus on human development informs his unique photographic perspective.
In 2014, he embarked on a one-year overland journey from Brussels to Hong Kong and photography quickly became his medium of choice for documenting stories from the road.
Nicolas has been documenting urban life in Hong Kong since 2015. His candid street scenes have been published in various magazines, exhibited and featured online by a range of street photography collective or competition.
In Hong Kong, he had the opportunity to attend two Magnum Workshops to continue developing his vision, with Richard Kalvar as well as Alex and Rebecca Webb. He was one of the series finalists in the 2019 Brussels Street Photography Festival and he is currently finalising his first street photography book project on Hong Kong entitled A Goldfish Dream.
He is currently working as freelance photographer and consulting at the same time for the United Nations Development Programme on Agriculture sustainability globally.
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.