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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Chun Ming Chan
Chun Ming Chan

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”.

Photography to me is the memory and passion of life.

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.

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September 8, 2019
Felix Renaud
Felix Renaud is a Montreal, Canada based photographer specialized in portraits and narrative imagery. Felix loves to capture the essence of fictional and real-life characters. He was attracted by cartoons & movies and he is more passionate about colors, contrast, and composition to tell stories.

In his words about lighting “It’s hard to explain my lightning because it changes from a shoot to another. I work mostly with strobes. Every shoot is different, sometimes I can use one light and sometimes ten.”

Thanks, Felix for accepting our invitation. Please read on…
Could you please introduce yourself?

I am a Montreal-based photographer specialized in portraits and narrative imagery. Capturing the essence of fictional and real-life characters is what I love most. I always work on my photos to make them look like they’re from of a movie or similar to a painting.

I’ve always been attracted by beautiful images, mostly cartoons, and movies. That’s why I’m so passionate about using colours, contrast, and composition to tell stories.

How did Photography happen to Felix?

My younger brother had a new camera at the time. I was a bit jealous and curious about taking pictures. So I bought my own, while I was studying at film school. I thought I wanted to be a DOP. As life would have it, I started working as a camera assistant and quickly realized it wasn’t for me, so I started to assist a few photographers here and there and before I knew it, I was honing my photography skills and building a solid client base.

Your photographs are very creative and inspiring; can you please explain your lighting and studio setups?

It’s hard to explain my lightning because it changes from a shoot to another. I work mostly with strobes. Every shoot is different, sometimes I can use one light and sometimes ten.

Before you start a shoot, how will you prepare yourself?

I think a lot before a shooting. Whether for a client or for a personal project, I act in the same way, I like to be prepared. I inspire myself first by looking at pictures, movies or by listening to music. I put on paper my ideas, I draw lighting plans and prepare a list of equipment that I will need. After that, anything can happen!

How do you inspire yourself?

Once I have a project in mind, I think about it all the time. Not only when I’m at the studio or at the office, all the time. I find inspiration or ideas around me in connection with upcoming projects. It can be the way the sun lights someone outside, or the way the concierge walks from a grocery store. Most of the time, I look at the things or pictures that catch my attention and I ask myself this simple question, why do I like that? We rarely take the time to ask ourselves a simple question like this.

What type of camera, lenses and lighting equipment do you use?

Camera body: Canon 5DIII and Canon 5DS

Lens: The new primes from Sigma Art 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and Canon 100mm, 135mm and 200mm

Filters: Rarely I use filters but sometimes a polarizer or an ND.

Flash: Speedotron packs and Alienbees

Photoflex softboxes, Matthews gripping gear, and Manfrotto tripods.

Outex case for my underwater work

If you could go on assignment anywhere in the world to shoot whatever you wanted; where and what would it be, and why?

Go to New Orleans to photograph real bluesman. To be able to be part of such a rich musical community. To photograph this in my own way, documentary photos with a touch of fiction.

If not a Photographer, what would you have been?

Hard one! I think I would be a graphic designer or an illustrator.

What is the best compliment do you ever had?

That I had my own photographic signature.

Which photographers have inspired you?

Chris Buck, Tim Tadder, Yan Rabanier and Joey L, just to name a few.

Who are you, besides being a photographer?

Parent of two beautiful beings, Pablo and Luna. And I’m engaged to the most wonderful and powerful women, Manuela. Otherwise, I am passionate about water. I practice swimming and freediving in my spare time to rejuvenate myself.
Copyrights:
All the pictures in this post are copyrighted to Felix Renaud. Their reproduction, even in part, is forbidden without the explicit approval of the rightful owners.
September 4, 2019