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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.

  • Ali Motamedi

    Ali Motamedi

    Ali Motamedi

    When the City Went to Sleep

    It was winter of 2020 when I moved into a new apartment in Manhattan. One month later, news from overseas brought an unknown virus: COVID-19 was spreading everywhere. Soon the stores, restaurants, and museums were closed. The shadows of fear and loneliness were everywhere. The city that never sleeps was finally asleep.

    Weeks passed and I was trapped in a tiny studio apartment in Manhattan. I tracked the number of dead in the news, and I heard that some stores were being looted and some types of food were not available anymore. New York looked like a different city to me. After a few weeks of living in lockdown, an inner force asked me to go out, a curiosity mixed with anxiety. I had more free time to walk in the evening and at night, so I started walking in the streets I used to know for many years. From Grand Central Terminal to park benches in my neighborhood, from a local coffee shop to Central Park and streets nearby, I roamed around and tried to get to know the place where I was living.
    I started the project in March 2020 and continued it until the end of the year. 

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    U.S. flag at half-staff as a remembrance of the people who have died from COVID-19, Central Park, April 11
    The Oyster Bar ramps, Grand Central Terminal, March 31
    38th Street and Tunnel Exit St, March 31
    Someone clapping and chanting for healthcare workers at 7pm, Tudor City Place, April 5
    A health worker waiting at the bus stop, Columbus Circle, June 5
    A discarded Coronavirus glove on the ground, Tudor City Place, April 23 “Love you”, Get Well Soon”: Hand-written signs on construction fence, 41th Street and 1st Avenue, April 6
    Love you”, Get Well Soon”: Hand-written signs on construction fence, 41th Street and 1st Avenue, April 6
    DELICO flower shop not selling flowers until further notice, 41st Street and 2nd Avenue, March 29
    Picolo Angelo restaurant operating with limited seating capacity, West Village, July 15
    Self-portrait, 41th Street and 1st Avenue, July 12
    The Lake, Central Park, April 7
    Sheep Meadow, Central Park, June 10
    42nd Street and 2nd Avenue, March 29
  • Giuseppe Cardoni

    Giuseppe Cardoni

     Giuseppe Cardoni

    Metropolitan Fragments

    The environment is delimited, circumscribed of the subway, with a complete absence of the external landscape that often represents a container of memories.The protagonists are absorbed in their thoughts with their heads bowed or intent on looking with the absent gaze of those who look but do not see, as if they were imprisoned in their inner world. We are almost facing an aquarium in which motionless and / or unconscious fish swim. Loneliness is almost palpable and silence seems to saturate every space of the environment in a metaphysical suspension. People anonymous, unknown, isolated, closed in themselves, unable to communicate, who despite being close to each other almost never interact with each other. The scene is still, extracted from the present and frozen out of time. (Metropolitan Fragments is an ongoing project)

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  • Mehdi Rouhbakhsh

    Mehdi Rouhbakhsh

    Mehdi Rouhbakhsh

    Birth in 1983, Franco, I grew up in an artistic family. My uncle was a known artist in the field of contemporary painting. I myself after finishing my academic study in the universities of Paris and obtained my master’s degree in International & E-Commerce, jointed to public society more involved to the ordinary life of people around the world.
    Then I have started to capture the scenes and promote the feel of photography art by observing the path of the great photographers like as Cartier Bresson and Sebastiao Salgado and oriented my sense to taking the shot in the street by recording every moment of the ordinary life, basically on the technic of BnW. Knowing the fact that the initiate’s motivation of the photographer is capturing all that is commonly unnoticed, the age of Covid and pandemic for me was the exploring a unique word that it was reflected exactly what was differently attractive in front of my camera.

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  • Tommaso Banti

    Tommaso Banti

    Tommaso Banti

    In Magenta

    “In Magenta” is a series I completed in February 2021. I’ve been trying through the use of a flash off camera and an old reflex to explore my hometown, my neighbours, the beach, where people wander endlessly and dead bodies are carried on the shore, unable to escape. The use of colour is meant to underline the enstrangement between me and what I once called home following the Corona Virus pandemic and the global lockdown.

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  • Ted Lai

    Ted Lai

    Ted Lai

    Densely populated and hyper-connected by technology, people in thriving metropolises are paradoxically growing further apart; some finding solace in their solitude.

    Solitude is bliss; Prince Edward
    Solitude is bliss; Central A lone protester makes way through a tunnel barred by protests that gripped and polarised Hong Kong.
    Solitude is bliss; Sheung Wan A last standing metal work shop, juxtaposed against newer stores on Upper Lascar Row.
    Solitude is bliss; Guangzhou
    Solitude is bliss; Guangzhou A guard takes a break from patrolling a istorical theatre.
    Solitude is bliss; Sai Ying Pun
    Solitude is bliss: North Point A calligrapher and sign maker gazes at his life’s work.
    Solitude is bliss; North Point
    Solitude is bliss; Mong Kok
  • Paul Kessel

    Paul Kessel

    Paul Kessel

    Hauptbahnhof

    Hauptbahnhof, the main train station in Frankfurt Germany, is a major hub for European travel. The skylights generate good light and as I have been there many times, I like to photograph there. All photos are candid and mostly no more than 10 feet away.

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  • Maude Bardet

    Maude Bardet

    Maude Bardet

    Baloonanza

    Every street photographer has items that attracted them more than others. For me, these are cotton candy, hanging fabrics and mostly… balloons . Balloons are colorful, have a nice shape, seem to dance in the sky and are usually accompanied with playful kids. They can also yield mysterious images by hiding people’s faces. They are for sure a good starting point in a photographic composition

    Aliyev center, Baku
    Family in Jodhpur
    Selling balloons in Alexandria
    Ad Deyorah neighborhood, Cairo
    Syrian refugee girl in Gaziantep
    Waterfront in Alexandria
    Aliyev center, Baku
    Kutor neighborhood, Baku
  • Matthew Kamholtz

    Matthew Kamholtz

    Matthew Kamholtz

    On Screen

    These pictures were born of necessity. As the global Covid-19 pandemic raged during the Summer of 2020, the epidemic of police killings sparked mass Black Lives Matter protests throughout the United States. But as thousands of people took to the streets, I was obliged to shelter at home as the protests, and the often brutal police reaction, played out on screens in television newscasts, live streams, and video uploads, bringing the streets into our homes. And so, I photographed the screens as I watched, a process that distorted reality, just as it paradoxically revealed its intensity and emotion. Although I was physically distant, the images felt intensely present.

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  • Rodrigo Roher

    Rodrigo Roher

    Rodrigo Roher

    Beb (Benidorm electric blue) 2017-2021

    The song from Los del Rio* has always told us that Seville has a special color (by the way, I still do not know which one it is). From Benidorm, which also has a “special color”, I found it very quickly: The electric blue. Beyond the “guiri”* tourism and IMSERSO* travellers, Benidorm gives off joy, light and color in all its corners. The Sun of the Levant and the Mediterranean sea, are the main guilties of all this. In this context of almost infinite vacations, is where the electric blue is omnipresent. In the streets, in the buildings, in the posters, in the clothes and of course in the sky and in the sea. Everything is blue. My surrendered look, was seduced by the blue, mainly because escape from it is almost an impossible task. The images of this serie were born from this almost dictatorial charm.*Los del Río: Spanish musical duo characterized by its flamenco style of flamenco pop and flamenco rumba. *Guiri: Colloquial term to refer to foreign tourists. *IMSERSO: Institute of Seniors and Social Services of the Government of Spain.

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  • Lorenzo Catena

    Lorenzo Catena

    Lorenzo Catena

    Comitiva

    “Comitiva” is an Italian term that refers to a group of young friends with a close bond of friendship. I met this group of young people along the shores of a small town in southern Italy in the summer of 2020 by chance. We spent a few afternoons together where I captured their daily rituals along the rocky beaches that characterize the landscape of their sea. With this series, I tell the intimate dynamics of a group of friends and their desire to live and be together. Framing the beauty of their youth, they appear to me as timeless bronze statues, and I try to relive the lightheartedness of an Italian summer.

  • Liliana Ranalletta

    Liliana Ranalletta

    Liliana Ranalletta

    Circus

    A world unto itself that of the Circus, a world suspended in its elusive and eclectic universe with unpredictable declinations of colors, shapes, sounds and smells. Where everything seems the opposite of everything and what appears is not or perhaps is only the instant stolen from the imagination of a constantly changing scenario, always poised between reality and dreams. The images are only part of the work that involved an autistic girl who lives in the circus. The project ended with the creation of a book.

  • Jonas Grauel

    Jonas Grauel

    Jonas Grauel

    Columns, Poles and Trees – Vertical Lines in the Street

    Each of the pictures of Columns, Poles and Trees“ combines a formal element of composition – the vertical line – with the spontaneity of street photography. Thus, the series aims to explore the interplay of formality and  freedom. In composition, strong lines divide the basic area of a picture into several smaller sections. Harald Mante, author of  The Photograph: Composition and Color Design“ writes that vertical lines suggest closeness and warmth – contrasting the effect of horizontal lines suggesting distance and coolness. This resonates well with the intention of street photography to draw us into various urban scenes. Street photography also intends to capture unique moments within everyday life and tells little stories about them. In the series the vertical elements are integrated into these little stories. We see people partly hidden behind a tree, leaning against a pole or fingers grabbing a pole.