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Street photography, a genre of photography 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.

Betty Manousos
I’m an economist turned Street and Social Documentary photographer, founder/editor of CUT and DRY Blogzine, and a member of the Photographic Circle collective. I’m currently based in Athens, Greece. I have always loved Street photography, but it wasn’t until 2018 that I actually started to get dedicated to that genre, in an attempt to preserve what time steals but photographs can save. I’m passionate about exploring urban spaces and watching every day people’s lives unfold around me. My photographic vision focuses on capturing the essence of a person, the feeling, the soul, the spirit of a city, the everyday life as it evolves in urban and/or rural environments. Photography speaks. And Street photography is like an obsession. It is another way of seeing me after all.

AWARDS / PUBLICATIONS
2019 IPA AWARDS: I won an Honorable Mention Street, People category One Shot Street Competition IPA – International Photography Awards,
2018 IPA AWARDS: An Honorable Mention Self Promotion category IPA – International Photography Awards
2019 URBANAUTICA: A Special Mention Open Call “EXTINCTION. THE WORLD WITHOUT US” URBANAUTICA
My work has been published in print and digital magazines and websites such as EYE-SHOT Street Photography Magazine, EYE-PHOTO Magazine, LIFE-FRAMER, Street Photography Magazine. Also, it has been featured in several photo-related sites such as 121Clicks, Photographize , Wonderzofphotography , Photographic Mercadillo , e.t.c.

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About The Collection

This Collection explores urban encounters and vibrant, lively spaces where you can feel the pulse of a European capital. All photographs have been taken in Athens, Greece.
May 21, 2020
Gabi Ben Avraham
Gabi Ben Avraham

“The Street is not a Studio”
I am an Israeli photographer (59), I live in Tel Aviv and work in a software company. After flirting with an initial fascination with photography and film cameras in the 1980’s, I went on to pursue a career as an IT manager and put my love for the still image aside.
Fortunately, my interest never disappeared. While the passion lay dormant for decades, all it took was the gift of a camera from my wife to awaken my inclination towards photography again.
The Street is not a Studio. Sometimes I stand and wait for things to converge – a cyclist, a dancer, a child – moving along. Street Photography/Documentary is my favorite way of looking at the world.
My camera has become an integral part of me and I cannot imagine myself without it. Everywhere I go I take it with me thinking ‘maybe today will be my lucky day and I will take the photo of my life’.
Via the camera lens I am constantly looking around me, searching for that ‘decisive’ moment that will never return, unless I catch it.
When pushing the button, I try to make some sense, restore order to the chaotic scheme of things in the composition, tell the story behind the scene and frame a surrealistic moment.
The components ‘speak’ with each other in a special dialogue, either by color, shape, or light. Capturing the elusive, special moment after which things will never be the same and making it eternal – that is my goal.
Forgotten, transparent people in urban surroundings are being granted their moment of grace.
The shadows, fragile outlines, reflections within daily lives that are not noticed in the busy and thick urban landscape and sometimes are even crushed by it – these are precious to me. Those expressions and compositions are to be treasured before they are lost in time.
Like a fisherman who goes to his daily work without knowing what he will catch, I take my camera and dive into the streets without knowing what will happen five minutes later. It is an adventure.
When I click I try to see the surreal and to sort things out of their everyday meaning and their usual context. I have my favorite places and I never come with the same photos. It is always different: the people, the light and shadows, the atmosphere.
At a single click, I try to fill the insignificance around me with significance and create a private and intimate hallucination in order to share it with the viewer. Even though the moment fades, it is burnt in the memory of the viewer.
I shoot independently for a few years and teach in Street Photography workshops.

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May 9, 2020
Simon King
I am a British Documentary and Street Photographer, with an interest in surrealism, action, and humour. I am also a photography educator, through writing and leading courses, and work on reducing down complex ideas relating to sociology and philosophy and figuring out the best way to help students interpret those ideas through the camera.
I started making photographs in my last year of university, and since then have made photographs in the worlds of fashion, production, journalism, activism, still life, portraiture, and worked on many other side projects.
My current work involves a combination of many ideas and will hopefully result in some meaningful and personal storytelling results.

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About The Collection

My selection of images here were all made in 2019, on 35mm black and white film. 2019 represents a transition in my work, as I began to move away from images based around aesthetic to photographing moment-to-moment happenings. I work with manual focus rangefinders, which means I spent a lot of time working on my ability to pre-empt action, anticipate potential, and force myself to never stop searching for possibilities.
May 9, 2020
Andrea Torrei
Light and colors as narrative, as emotions, as complement. I assign a lot of meaning to color and, sometimes, it may play the main role in a photograph evoking feelings.
I work in both black&white and color but I have been mostly exploring the latter and its emotional response. I am passionate about different genres of photography, from portraits to documentary, from street to landscape but the core of my work is about people and their stories in their daily life. Up close, personal and intimate sometimes. Bustling cities, lost in the chaos of the streets very often. Or in a calm and isolated corner in a remote place of the world by now and then, my camera is always with me ready to be part of the unexpected unfolding before us.
I was born in Italy where I love to live.

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About the Collection

Here a selection of photographs made during the last five years, some in Italy but most of them traveling around the world.
May 9, 2020
Steve Panariti
Over the past decade Steve Panariti has traveled the world, capturing models for big brands and, at the same time, documenting the real life “behind the scenes”. With the polaroid and the film he photographed what happens behind the camera: gestures, suspended and fatigued glances of models surprised in moments of relaxation, of unsuspecting cleaners and simple passers-by that convey, everyone, a sense of discomfort and restlessness.
Diamonds is an experiment in which the “out of focus” takes shape, neither imagined nor imaged, but harshly real and ultimately central.
It is a present-day jigsaw puzzle filled with nameless inhabitants of peripheral spaces, empty architecture and withdrawing lights the day’s end.
“We’ll never be as young as we are tonight,” echoed Buster Casey. Every night we forgo a sliver of our purity, and give up a grain of our audacity.
The photographs reveal the same idea found in the unwholesome pose of the adolescent, in those who have passed out and sleep on the streets.
The frailty of essence reveals our defective side, the shameless side, the side capable of dirtying itself since it is often closer to the ground: the unlikable side, that we seek to hide is there, but cannot be illuminated.
This part wants no responsibility. It ponders other, deeper thoughts: lingering in the instability that nears the authenticity of life. And thus, we become strong, stronger than we ever thought.

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May 9, 2020
Matheus Gomes
I was born in 1994 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where I’ve studied graphic design and now I run my own design studio. I bought my first camera in 2014, by the time I was still in college and had the assignment to create a photographic series about the city’s architecture. Although the results of this first experience were not great, it awoke in me a passion for photography and I have not stopped ever since. Whenever I go out I always try to bring my camera with me, shooting influenced by some classics like Alex Webb, David Alan Harvey, Bruce Gilden, Sebastião Salgado, Fan Ho, and others.

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About The Collection

“What lays in the shadows” is a series that reunites some photos characterized by the main features of most of my work: people surrounded by shadows, or even creating their own shadows, becoming thus these unrevealed attributes of my photos. The shots were taken between 2017 and 2020 in Belo Horizonte, New York, São Paulo, Arraial do Cabo, and Curitiba’s cities. And all of them work with the daylight as a blinding property of the shots
May 9, 2020
Melissa O’Shaughnessy
I am a New York based photographer who discovered the pleasures of street photography relatively late in life after studying journalism and art history and working as a book editor and president of a small investment firm. After quitting work to spend more time with my three children, I spent years learning the craft of darkroom-based black and white photography.
Gradually, black and white gave way to color and the street became the primary focus of my photography. I’ve learned that I can only see and make interesting pictures on days when I have a clear head and an open heart, which I find to be a deeply satisfying way to exist in the world, whether I have a camera with me or not.
I am a member of UP, an international collective of 26 photographers. My first book, Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs, will be published by Aperture in the fall of 2020.

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May 9, 2020
Elena Alexandra
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She studied Psychology, Political Science, and Arts in Russia, Germany, and Spain. Trained as a classical painter, she discovered her passion for street photography while working as a newspaper reporter in Madrid. Since then, she is capturing street scenes of her daily life and life in South America, whilst traveling. Elena´s work has been exhibited in San Francisco, USA; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Palermo, Italy; Częstochowa, Poland, and New York, USA. She won the second place for the “Moment” Award, the 1st International Biennale of Street Photography 2019, Częstochowa, Poland. Known as @bloomsofmind on Instagram, Elena is a curator of a @fromstreetswithlove street photography feature site. Besides Elena´s dedication to street photography, she is working as a researcher for e-mental health and an psychotherapist, practising the psychoanalytic approach by James F. Masterson together with existential psychotherapy (R. May, Y. Yalom). In her counseling work, she combines visual and introspective approaches, using photography as a means of expression. Elena is currently living in Hamburg, Germany.

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About The Collection

I love to feel life as you do it in street photography. I enjoy to capture the beauty of everyday moments, to discover magic in ordinary days – every shot you take as a street photographer is ephemeral and unique. Some moments are telling you stories that unveil their deeper meaning only later. To me, street photography is a confession of love to life. It is a spiritual experience of a deeper connection with the world surrounding me. I go out into the world, open my heart and eyes and see what happens next.
May 9, 2020
Naoya Takahashi
I live in Saitama Prefecture, Japan and mainly photograph the city of Tokyo. I started photography seriously around 2015, initially taking cityscapes, and around 2018 I discovered street snaps. I was fascinated by the moments and encounters that transcend the imagination.
The purpose of my street snapping is to “share a perspective”. It’s also a suggestion that when you take the camera, you notice interesting moments in the city, and the city is very beautiful when you look through the viewfinder.
It’s not just the dramatic scenes that are interesting. Silhouettes, colors, graphical structures, juxtapositions, and humor are also eligible. I think it is the part of Street Snap’s role to present them. My hope is that sharing a perspective will enrich someone’s heart a little bit.

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May 9, 2020
Emmanuel Monzon
Emmanuel Monzon is a french photographer and visual artist based in Seattle, WA. He graduated from the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Paris, France with honors. His work has been featured throughout the US, Europe and Asia (through exhibitions, selections and various awards).
Through his work, he explores and questions the signs of urban sprawl in our visual field. His photographic process is being influenced by his plastic art artist background.

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May 9, 2020
Cristina Embil
I am a woman from the region of Asturias, in the north of Spain. I have always loved photography but I am not a professional, I try to combine photography with my work in a Trade Unión. I have always liked photos that show the energy of the streets, which have layers and can be read as multiple stories. I am very honored to have participated in the 2019 Annual Street Photography Women Expo in New York City, curated by Gulnara Samoilova, Finalist at the Streetfoto San Francisco 2019 contest, Winner of the Brussels Prize at Brussels Street Photo Festival 2019, Finalist at Urban Photo Awards 2019 (Trieste, Italy), Semifinalist and Head On Photo Festival 2020 (Australia)

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About The Collection

I took these photos in the Quartier “Les Marolles” (Brussels), the neighborhood of the real brusseleer conversation. It is inhabited by artisans, non-native workers and the elderly. Some of them offer a desolate image. Men and women like this are part of the neighborhood, they are not isolated. The day I took the same photos there was a very colorful and popular party, a parade of giants also organized by the Spanish colony. We can see people of many cultures, ages and races sharing the party. Elderly with their bags and their Marollien bearing. Children and also whole families in distress sell their “bibelots” hoping to get some money. The neighborhood is dirty not only as a result of the popular street festival of that day, but also of something deeper that emanates from its own essence. In this series, although there are people, these are not the protagonists, but the heart of the neighborhood, which has its own heartbeat.
May 9, 2020
Ilan Ben Yehuda
I was born and live in Ramat – Gan, Israel. Work as a graphic designer for the fashion industry in the last twenty years.
I began to interested in photography about twenty years ago, studied film B&W photography at Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv.
In the last years, I am focusing on street photography. Places in which I photograph are Mainly Tel Aviv streets and sea coast, Jerusalem mainly the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim. For my work in Mea Shearim, I won first prize in the religion category in Israeli Docomantry competition “Local Testimony”.

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About The Collection

The collection in front of you contains some topics that I work on.
Street photography in general. Animal photography in the urban space and surrealistic documentation of life in the Mea Shearim.
The basis for all my work and common to all these subjects I dealt with in photography is catching the surreal moment and the absurd of human life.
At the moment I have no preference for a particular photography technique and I shoot according to the situation. I usually shoot in high contrasts of light and shadow and sometimes I prefer to use flash and sometimes just shoot.

major exhibitions:
2016 finalist, singles at Miami street photography.
2016 finals, series at San Francisco street photography.
2016 first prize Local testimony Israel, religious series.
2017 second, Local testimony Israel, urban series.
2018 second, Local testimony Israel, urban series.
2018 Leica Gallery Prague, “Israeli street moments” with Alex Livac and Gabi Ben Avraham.
May 4, 2020

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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.