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.
My name is Edas Wong, living in Hong Kong. I am a day-dreamer and love imagination. Street photography is an excellent media to express my crotchets. There are many surreal scenes which happen around us. What I need are just “go outside”, “stop playing smartphone”, observe” and then “click”. It is rather simple.
I’m primarily a street photographer and fortunate that I have the streets of New York City for inspiration. I was raised in the South Bronx and am of Puerto Rican descent. My shots are not planned – I walk and explore the many parts of the city with my Leica Q hoping to discover what I like to call “frame-able moments”. I try to express the variety of what the street offers in my photography – art, people, oddities, the good, the bad. I find that this type of photography suits my passion as the subject matter is always diverse. I am not a photographer by trade. I only began taking photography seriously about five years ago. In many ways I feel as though I’m still learning to see and to me that’s most important. The ability to stand back and absorb a moment is something many of us rarely do. If you open yourself up to that – the observance of things – there is beauty there to capture.
I am a London-based, freelance photographer who specialises in candid street photography, portraiture and events.
Initially, I dreamt about becoming a screen actor. I would often go for long walks in Central London to observe human behaviour. I saw it as a way of building my craft as an actor. I would tell myself on numerous occasions that I should get a camera to capture some of the scenes that caught my eye and engaged my brain. I eventually purchased my very first camera and I haven’t looked back since.
Before picking up a camera and exploring the medium I had very little interest in the subtle, visual delights of the world. Such as colour and the way that light can bring colour to life. Photography rekindled my love for the small things. This series of photos is a homage to the medium of photography and the beauty of colour; as well as an exploration of the human condition. Largely romanticised, but always candid and real.
I’ve worked as a psychiatrist for the last fifty years in the San Francisco Bay area. Fifteen years ago I became fascinated by the possibilities of photography and now rarely go anywhere without a camera. I enjoy the hunt for that moment of mystery, surprise, and humor in my everyday life. I seek unplanned and unposed images that hint to a larger story, like a publicity still from some forgotten movie. These fragments of fictional stories are drawn from the real world in an odd coupling of my unconscious, my intentions, and chance. I am one of the originating member of the Burn My Eye street photography collective.
I was born in 1971 and live in Hannover, a city with 500.000 citizens in Germany.
My first contact with street photography was on my travels in the 90´s when I even don’t know anything about this genre. Since 2016 I have been concentrating exclusively on street photography. I am already slightly addicted to it.
Since I am blind on the left side since birth and have only 25% vision on the other eye, I am rather a slow photographer. Candid photography is not my preferred discipline. Composing a stage and waiting for the decisive moment is my favorite way to work. I can be very patient. Sometimes I´m kneeling on the floor for 15 minutes when I think it´s worth it.My styles and triggers change from time to time. Sometimes it is the work with reflections and blur, sometimes it is juxtapositions or curiosity gaps that inspire me. But always a clear and graphic composition is important to me. I don’t like chaos in my pictures. I would like to leave out all unimportant picture elements as far as possible. The selection should give you an overview.
I am less interested in showing certain characters on the streets. I would rather document the light, the colours and the forms of the urban landscape in relation to the human being.
For me a good photo is not only composed in a balanced way, but also tells a story or conveys an emotion.
At the moment I´m doing minimal photography on street to stay safe during the pandemic.
My name is Tolga Tacmahal.I born in İzmir ,Turkey at 1977. I am interesting in photography for 15 years. I usually use streets as my stage while trying too keep humans as the main subjects.
My last projects is a black and white photograph exhibit which are connect with certain theme.
I like telling stories by photography.
Tural Rahmanli (b. 1992, Karabakh) is an Azerbaijan photographer who focuses on the human aspects of political, social and cultural issues. Tural Rahmanli photographic career began when he moved to Turkey in 2013. He received his MBA from Bahcesehir University. In 2016, he joined the turkuaz street collective. He is currently based in Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Project title : ‘UKRAINE’
The photo series “Ukraine” by Tural Rahmanli creates not only a connection between reportage and art, but also different people and timelines. The author represents the journey in a foreign country and its darkness as a poetry-like language. He addresses to Ukraine’s social crisis and society affected by this. Ukraine is another look to the present day’s society tested by many occasions through the windows of the past. He substitutes coldness of photos with people portraits from the close up plans inviting the viewer to comprehend social problems.
JADSADA INEAK a member of Street Photo Thailand Collective. He starts shooting street in 2014 because of the passion from the group of Street Photo Thailand. As a starting point for him to spend his free time every day of his life . He never studied about street photo before. He tried and tried until found out that street photo can be everyday and everywhere. He believes that creativity and idea are the key to success.
I’m a human rights activist, and a documentary and street photographer. Born in Poland, I grew up and spent most of my life in Germany, before I moved to the USA in 2015 with my wife Emily. I have worked as a campaigner for organizations like Amnesty International and All Out and I try to combine my human rights work and my passion for photography whenever I can.
There are few cities that inspire the modern world as much as New York City does. It’s ever-growing, ever-rising – a kaleidoscope of American culture. With my photography, I explore the play that unfolds day by day against the backdrop of New York’s restless concrete jungle.
My aim is to expose both the glossy surface and darker underbelly of American culture while portraying a witty, affectionate satire of a diverse and fast-paced city.
I shoot mostly in color, with crisp, vivid colors. I put people at the very center of my photography. Secluded from the current of the masses, the focus suddenly lies on this individual. And with the image the story unfolds and enters a dialogue with the spectator.
I always have my camera on me, so I shoot on my daily commute, in my lunch breaks, really anywhere and anytime. Sometimes I walk for 20 blocks without taking one single shot. On some days I return home without any shot I deem worthy of keeping. And sometimes I stick around one spot and find dozens of scenes popping up around me.
I can’t really tell you what exactly I’m looking for. I know it, when it unfolds in front of me. It can be a certain gesture someone is making. It can be a moment of closeness and privacy in the chaos of the streets. In the end, it’s a slice from the life of a fellow New Yorker. A moment that stuck out for me as special and worth conserving.
Photography is the best way I can express my thoughts and feelings. There are so many stories out there in the streets worth telling. Being able to conserve an entire life story in one picture – it’s like magic. And of course, it’s highly addictive. I think what drives many of us to go out into the streets, again and again, is that insatiable hunger for more, the constant hunt for that much-hailed decisive moment.
Born in the North of France, I am a freelance photographer based in Bordeaux.
Although I bought my first camera only in 2012, the medium quickly became an indispensable element of my life.
At the beginning, not knowing clearly what I wanted to do with it, I followed some workshops with famous photographers of different specialties (war reporter, street, portraits …), exciting weeks which confirmed me in my wish to pursue this passion. In 2015, I completed these sessions with a short technical training at the Gobelins school in Paris, but it is mainly in practicing alone in the streets that I learned the most.
Winner or finalist of numerous awards, my images have been exhibited in France and abroad (Bordeaux, Arles, Marseille, London, Miami, Milan, Kuala Lumpur, Brussels and New York…) and published in numerous online or print magazines.
Winner of the “Women street photographers” contest for an artist residency in New York city in December 2019 (WSP is a platform, Instagram feed, website and traveling exhibitions curated by Gulnara Samoilova), a selection of my residency’s work was presented last year in a solo exhibition in NYC, alongside WSP’s annual exhibition in Dec. 2019-Jan. 2020.
Ever since I started the photo, I have not ceased, beyond the pure aesthetic aspects, to look for the attitudes, the backgrounds, the small details of our daily life which, associated with a particular light (often a chiaroscuro) allow me to project myself- and the viewers too, I hope – into a universe halfway between fiction and reality. Photos like small improvised theatrical scenes or sequences of dreams, results of a small wait or taken on the fly, but a reflection always in my eyes of a particular emotion (humor, romance, mystery, surprise…), or a reflection of my interrogations about the aspects often absurd, often chaotic and obscure of the lives we live.
There is at the same time in my images, the desire to better understand my environment and that of the person crossing my frame, as well as transcending it to bring a little extra magic or poetry.
I’m not sure which came first, being nosey or having an interest in “street photography”.
I was born in Pesaro in Italy in 1974. I start take photographs when I was a child and my parents bought me an automatic film camera. I’m a self-taught photographer but during years I had the opportunity to join the masterclass of important photographer like Alex Webb, Jonas Bendiksen and Maciej Dakowicz.I really don’t know what influence me and my photographs. I simply look at people and sometimes people give me a reason to take a picture.
The Summer Has Come
The beach is a great equalizer—no matter one’s way of life, everyone sheds their clothing (and social conventions) as soon as they step onto the sand. Here, varied moments of enjoyment from seasides around the world.
Summer is a season when people let go of both their clothing and their social conventions. The warm weather and long nights encourage everyone to express their connection with nature and their lightness of being.
The beach is also a sort of equalizer, as everyone is enjoying the same scenery and everyone is almost naked. Distinctions of class and experience disappear. I took these pictures over the last 10 years in locations around the world: the cover image was shot in 2007 in my hometown of Pesaro, Italy. Every time I go to the beach there, I relive the memories of my childhood, building sand castles and playing with my parents and friends. Summer always meant the end of school, of homework, of responsibility.
I am an Argentinian street photographer, with my interest focused mainly on capturing characters and everyday situations on the streets of Buenos Aires.
Street photography is a passion that I cultivate as a hobby that helped me focus my gaze on the social and individual environment that surrounds me, giving me the possibility of observing reality in a less superficial and more humane way.
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.