Street Photographers Foundation

Tag: street photography

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.

  • Gerardo Alcaraz

    Gerardo Alcaraz

    Gerardo Alcaraz

    I was born in Alicante in 1973 and I have been photographing since I was 16 years old, with my first camera that I still have and use. Street photography is my biggest hobby.

    Shooting with film and digital without rules. I don’t have a project, I’m not looking for anything in particular. When I go out, I always carry a camera and photograph what I like or attract my attention.

    I am finalist of the 2020 MSPF and finalist of the 2021 ISPF.

    My goal is to enjoy photography and keep learning. It’s a long way

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    About The Collection…

    This collection is made up of recent photos, from my last stage as a street photographer. These are disjointed photos, without pretending to show a series or project. Most of these photos are taken in Spain. In this small collection, we sometimes find humor, coincidences, compositions, or simply spontaneous moments from real life.

  • Marco Cajazzo

    Marco Cajazzo

    Marco Cajazzo

    I was born in Mazara del Vallo, a small Sicilian town, in 1975. Now I live in Catania where I work as a SW engineer. I started studying photography in 2017 when a friend who is passionate about photography pointed out that maybe I had a good visual sense (ironically I am visually impaired in the right eye). Now I teach street photography at the Imagozero association in Catania. I photograph mainly in Sicily trying to capture the beauty of the world with my Fuji X100V.

    I am in love with Elliott Erwitt’s photography and I think that David Gibson’s “Street Photographer’s Manual” is a milestone book for anyone who wants to start street photography. In 2020 I had the great satisfaction of being a finalist in three important street photography festivals, in Rome, Miami and Istanbul. I will participate in the Treviso Photo Festival which will be held next September.

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    About The Collection…

    My photos are simple, based on observing the world around me. I look for overlaps, coincidences, oddities, surreal situations: everything that can make the observer say “How is it possible?” or at least make him smile. These photos are the consequence of what I saw, not of an a priori project and I have taken them in the last 3 years mainly in Sicily. The street can be an incredible stage of beauty and humanity. The street photographer has the mission to capture the beauty of the moment.

  • Alessandro Deluigi

    Alessandro Deluigi

    Alessandro Deluigi

    I was born in Rimini (Italy) where I live.

    I have always taken photos, in recent years I have approached street photography that I prefer: I find it stimulating, I enjoy it, I am very passionate about it.

    My shots are often composed of a few elements, I prefer clean images, trying to combine perfect framing and timing. In doing so I tell a short story, a contrast, a coincidence, I look for the detail, sometimes humorous.

    Photography for me is the pleasure of freezing time for a fraction of a second and making it live forever.

    Some of my photographs have been selected from magazines and competitions in Italy and abroad.

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  • Joerg Stephan

    Joerg Stephan

    Joerg Stephan

    I was born 1965 in Stuttgart, Germany and I live half of my life in beautiful Bavaria. Today I live in Landshut , a small town in southern Bavaria. I started with street photography a couple of years ago after experiences in fashion and studio photography.

     

    In the streets I try to get closer to the subjects, but also love the broader scene. I prefer shooting from the hips, not been recognized at all in the crowd. I like using the flow of people in the streets, waiting on the accidantly encounter which ist he perfect second.

     

    I never leave the house without my Leica Q2. I do like the streets of my hometown, but of course the opportunities are limited. It is more exciting being in the streets of New York, Berlin, Paris or Singapore which I did visit the last years. All photos were taken before Corona and show street life as it was before. I do hope we all get back to normal and will enjoy daily life on the streets again.

     

    I do mix black and white and colour. Photos just work the one or the other way – both has it´s beauty.

     

    With one of the black and white ones I was finalist in the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) 2020, which I am still proud of. My latest project was publishing my first book. It contains 20 black and white street photos and is available on my website.

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  • Fedor Gorbatov

    Fedor Gorbatov

    Fedor Gorbatov

    I am 44 years old, I was born in Moscow and I am an amateur photographer. I am an IT engineer and the owner of a small outsourcing company. Photography is my second life. At some point, I realized that my life could pass completely and I would never see the beauty of this world. From now on, I will not part with the camera. I realized that photography is one of the shortest ways to understand the beauty of the world around us (and not go crazy). All good shots and a great mood.

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  • Tommaso Banti

    Tommaso Banti

    Tommaso Banti

    Born and raised near Tuscany’s sea, I have always been attracted to storytelling and fine arts. My interest in cinema and photography developed thanks to the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Michelangelo Antonioni, Benoit Paille, Bruce Gilden and Edward Steichen, who deeply inspire me as many other authors  and media do. Eager to learn how to be a director and to find my narrative style, I started my studies at Scuola Holden, a storytelling academy in Turin, where I completed my studies in Cinema. Thanks to this experience I had the opportunity to improve technically and to work on various personal projects in different medias. I finished my studies in 2020.  It was at this moment in life when I found interest in off  camera flash street photography.  Now I am studying Modern Italian Literature in Università di Pisa, but I am still working on new projects in different medias, trying to improve more and more, both on a technical level and on a poetic one.

    Water and wind are recurrent elements that appear in the works I’ve done, as they are and always will be a part of me.

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    About the collection…

    During this last apocalyptic year I’ve been wandering around, armed with a reflex and a cheap flash. I stopped strangers and talked with them for a while. We were in a stage of knowing each other, yet there was a kind of tension. We were feeling creeped out one of the other. What was the other thinking? How were they going to react?
    In their uneasiness I recognize myself, yet I don’t know why.
    It seems important to me to describe this ordinary feeling of uncanny, is it a feeling born during the pandemic or have neighbours always felt this way one about the other?

  • Ilana Rose

    Ilana Rose

    Ilana Rose

    Ilana Rose is an Australian photographer based in Melbourne. She has worked as a professional photographer and photojournalist for over 25 years.

    During this time Ilana has worked for some of the most respected media outlets in Australia, including as a Foreign Correspondent. Ilana’s work has appeared in major Australian publications while clients have ranged from Government departments to art’s organisations, record companies, NGO’s, film companies and private clients.

     

    As a photographer, Ilana is passionate about story-telling, social justice issues and street photography. Her work has been exhibited in Australia, New York, China and New Zealand and collected by galleries and arts organisations throughout Australia.

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    About The Collection…

    I have been fortunate enough to travel the world as a working photographer and my passion and obsession for photography means that I always have a camera in my hand. This collection of street photography is what I do in my down time, exploring new cities and countries, always looking for those fleeting moments of beauty, the quirky, magic light and photographs that help tell the story of the lives of the inhabitants of a place.

  • Danilo Suzuki

    Danilo Suzuki

    Danilo Suzuki

    My name is Danilo Suzuki, I’m from Brazil, but living in Japan since 2016. I have a background in architecture, so taking photos of famous buildings was a pretty regular hobby for me. Often in architecture photography is much needed to show the human scale, thus including a person in the frame. From that point, a shift towards street photography was very natural, and now, people became my main subject. It is fascinating for me how complex street photography is in terms of evaluating how good is a given picture and also the dynamics involving; if you explore the three-dimensional aspect of architecture photography (maybe four, if you show a person moving with a slow shutter speed , for example), on the streets I think we deal with maybe a fifth dimension: emotions. And that is a game changer.

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    About the collection…

    This photos were all taken within the last two years, and I think street photography has a role of showing our present time and documenting what’s happening now, whether is good or not. I don’t think Shomei Tomatsu was having fun photographing post-war Japan, neither Steve McCurry and Alex Webb in 9/11 NYC. In Japan, the already well-reserved citizens became even more distant, the masks and suspicious looks are trendy and we don’t see the joy we used to see on streets. But emotions are there. We just have to squint our eyes a little bit.

  • Santiago Martinez De Septien

    Santiago Martinez De Septien

    Santiago Martinez De Septien

    My name is Santiago Martinez de Septien, engineer by profession and amateur photographer. Born in Burgos, on 64, and living now in Malaga, Spain. Father of a numerous family, I’ve always had a fascination for photography, but it was in these last few years that I’ve discovered it deeply.

    I define myself as a “weekend photographer”. I actually work as an industrial engineer in Andalucía, but my interest in immortalizing moments surged many years ago.

    As a young boy I took pictures of the fields of Castilla with disposable cameras. Mid 80s I discovered the magic of development thanks to a friend from college in Madrid, who taught me the art of capturing light in a silly box in those analog times. From the darkness, the images started projecting into a wet piece paper like magic.

    Afterwards, when I finished my studies and started my professional life, the photographer fell asleep somewhere within me.

    But the biggest breakthrough in photography for me took place a few years back when Susana, my wife, sold a watch she no longer used and gifted me my first digital camera. This allowed me to revive this hobby again.

    My children, Rodrigo, Cristina and little Paula along with Susana, have been my first models, I owe them for their patience and stolen time.

    With keen interest in street photography and portraits I have been influenced by classic photographers such as Cartier Bresson, Eliot Erwitt, , Brassai, Michael Kenna…

    who changed the way I see thinks.

     

    international awards

    IPA-LATIN 2018 “Discovery of the Year”,

    Vienna International Photography Awards 2020. Gold medal,

    Minimalist Photography Awards 2020, “Street Photographer Of The Year”

    Budapest International Photo Awards 2020. Gold medal,

    TOKYO-2020 Editorial + Family. Jury Top 5 Selection

    CHROMATIC AWARDS 2019, 1er prize in fine arts

    Finalist 16th Lucie Awards. “Discovery of the Year” Oct 2018 New York 2020

    Street Photography Awards 2020

     

    Exhibitions:

    Best of Show, New York Oct 2018.

    Lucie Awards Week PX3 PARIS PHOTO AWARDS AND IPA 2018/19 ‚FOREMOST‘EXHIBITION. Jan 2020. Okinawa, Japan.

    VIENNA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARD, July 2020, Vienna Austria.

    Best of Show, Bangkok Nov 2018

    Best of Show, Manila, Philippines, Jun 2019

    Best of Show, House of Lucie Los Angeles CA USA May 2019

    Blipoint Festival 2019 Barcelona, Spain Oct 2019

    About The Collection

    This is a collection of images I took in the last four years.

    From Black and White, to Color.

    From family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, to anonymous actors who have the ability to convey different emotions or moods.

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  • Fatih Çindemir

    Fatih Çindemir

    Fatih Çindemir

    I was born in Turkey and I have been living in the capital city, Ankara. I started taking photos in 2008.

    I love living street photography. I can tell my passion in this statement ‘ As I am not able to express what I have in my mind and soul in words, I can reflect them in photographs.

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  • Dougie Wallace

    Dougie Wallace

    Dougie Wallace

    Premier Padmini taxis, first introduced to the streets of Mumbai in the 1960s, have now all but disappeared following the introduction of laws to reduce pollution in the city. Locally known as ‘Kaali-Peeli’, there were once more than 60,000 of these iconic black and yellow cabs struggling through the chaos of Mumbai’s streets.

    Over a four-year period, Dougie Wallace documented these elaborate Bollywood disco bars on wheels. The crowded streets of Mumbai and the assortment of passengers provide a dynamic and intense backdrop, as do the cabs themselves. Many are pimped out with large speakers in the boot that blast out Bollywood hits, or are colorfully decorated inside with posters of Bollywood actresses, upholstered in loud hypnotic patterns, or feature Hindu gods and goddess on the dashboard.

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  • Street Photographers Book Published

    Street Photographers Book Published

    Street Photographers Book Published

    We have the honor to inform you about the release of the first issue of the  Street Photographers Book series.
    This book was ready in February, but due to the Coronavirus lockdown and world health problem,
    there was a long delay in the distribution of our book.
    From today, you can order this book from anywhere in the world and receive it.
    Also, as regards to the charitable goals of Street Photographers Foundation,
    a portion of the profits from the sale of books will be proudly donated to child labor to alleviate some of their suffering.

    The photographers contributed to this issue are:

    Article by : Richard Sandler
    Interview with: Matt Stuart
    Alberte Alonso Pereira, Andrés Cañal, Ayla Güvenç İMİR, Barry Talis, Bimo Pradityo, Damian Milczarek, Dimitri Mellos, Ekin Küçük, Enrico Markus Essl, Fabricio Brambatti, Francesco Sembolini, Gareth Bragdon, Gil Rigoulet, Gustavo Minas, Ilan Burla, Jasper Tejano, Jaume Escofet, Jesse Marlow ,Jonathan Higbee, Juan Jose Reyes, Julie Hrudova, Keenan Hastings, Kraipuk Thanudkit, Maciej Dakowicz, Marcin Ryczek, Masoud Gharaei, Matthew Casteel, Mo Barzegar, Mohammad Torki, Nesam Keshavarz, Nick Hannes, Niki Gleoudi, Paul Russell, Pelle Sten, Peter Kool, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Philipp Merz, Rui Palha ,Sagi Kortler, Salvatore Matarazzo, Sam Rodgers, Sami Uçan, Shinichiro Yamada, Siegfried Hansen, Simon Nicoloso, Stan De Zoysa, Stefano Mirabella, Streetmax 21,Suzan Pektas, Tavepong Pratoomwong, Troy Holden.

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    https://streetphotographersfoundation.com/product/street-photographers-book/

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