Tag: street photographers

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.

Andrew Kochanowski

Andrew Kochanowski Andrew Kochanowski is a candid photographer based outside Detroit, USA. Since 2007 his work has appeared in both solo and group exhibits in Detroit, London, Paris, Warsaw, Berlin, New York, Brighton (U.K), Cardiff, Milan, San Francisco and elsewhere, at venues such as the London Street Photography Festival, Brighton Biannial, SF StreetFoto Festival, Street [...]

Michael Mcilvaney

Michael Mcilvaney My name is Michael McIlvaney. I am a street photographer living in the UK and Ireland. When not working to a project my work is generally unplanned, always candid and in public. All images derive from single shots. I delight in capturing the spontaneous events and serendipitous occurrences that unfold before the camera’s [...]

Nicholas Ip

Nicholas Ip I was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Canada, and presently living in Hong Kong. My passion for photography started when I discovered street photography a few years ago. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I traveled frequently for work and I used that opportunity to document people and places whenever I could. [...]

Steve Bonati

Steve Bonati In 2014, a series of workshops organised by The Guardian and led by Matt Stuart and Stephen McClaren gave me the inspiration, motivation and confidence to become a street photographer. The historical and contextual element of the course provided a great insight into the different approaches and imagery captured under the all encompassing [...]

Jaclyn Licht

Jaclyn Licht Jaclyn Licht took up street photography in 2017 while living in Providence, Rhode Island. Now a Brooklyn resident, and a member of the New York City Street Photography Collective, she wanders the streets with her film cameras as a way to get to know the intricacies of the city and the characters that populate it. [...]

Willie Velazquez

Willie Velazquez I’ve been walking around with a camera in hand for a few years now, shooting anything and everything that pops out at me. Whether I’m out on a dedicated photo walk or running errands and socializing; burning more film is always the objective. I don’t hunt particular subjects nor try adhering to a [...]

Pierrot Men

Pierrot Men I have always lived and worked in Madagascar and each of my photographs is a declaration of love for my country and its people. My father arrived from China in the 1920s, fleeing the Sino-Japanese conflict. He would have liked me to become a merchant like him. I first wanted to be a [...]

Nicolas Vassal

Nicolas Vassal Nicolas VASSAL, alias NIKO, is a French photographer who started photography more than 25 years ago. His source of inspiration and his subjects have been evolving throughout the years before becoming in a kind of random way, what we call a “Street-photographer” You can read many definitions about street-photography, the various ways to [...]

Zisis Kardianos

Zisis Kardianos Zisis Kardianos (b. 1962, Zakynthos) I have been active as a street and social documentary photographer since 1985, working independently on self-assigned projects which were later published in various national and international magazines, self-published books and have been exhibited in Greece and abroad. I have studied Sociology in Athens where I also followed [...]

Hsu Su-e

Hsu Su-e My name is Hsu Su-e, and I am Taiwanese. I started getting into street photography in 2018, and I have been attending the SP class taught by TC Lin @taominglin. I usually like to walk around traditional markets and the surrounding alleys, taking pictures of interesting local scenes, which may seem complicated. The [...]

Rex Kandhai

Rex Kandhai Hi I’m Rex Kandhai, a photographer from Queens, NY. Member of the Queens Street Photography Crew and New York City Street Photography Collective. Last summer I took a photo of a bunch of teenagers in Astoria Park, doing their teenage thing. The flash on my Contax is as bright as the sun in [...]

Dan Fenstermacher

Dan Fenstermacher Dan Fenstermacher merges documentary storytelling, and street photography with both humor and activism. Fenstermacher was recently selected as the winner of the 2020 Miami Street Photography Festival International Series Contest and the 15th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest for the American Experience category. Fenstermacher has photographic experience on four continents including a multi-media internship [...]