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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.

Alvaro Vegazo
I’m Álvaro Vegazo, from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain and I’m a Civil Engineer. Photography is my passion, especially I like Street and Documentary Photography. I started to photograph when I was 15 years old, but nothing serious until 2013. Initially, I got interested in Documentary photography, and while I was taking photos in this process, I had the imperative necessity to take photos continually. It was when I discovered that the streets are the perfect choice for me. I love to capture life on streets.

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About The Collection

The variety of topics in street photography is so wide that I like to be open to each one of them. Although my beginnings were taking shadows and backlights, little by little I was discovering juxtapositions, connections, play of primary and complementary colors and the combination of layers. All this added to aspects such as humor, surrealism, etc. and always trying to take care of the composition, for me a fundamental factor in street photography.
July 6, 2020
Venice Photo Lab

We are honored to announce the new partnership with Venice Photo Lab.
One of their main objectives is to present photographic art to the public for free: a way to encourage young people to dream, to see new horizons through photography, which stimulates travel, knowledge, culture and socializing.
They decided to exhibit in Venice and in this artistic laboratory to compare traditional and artisan art with a “new”, democratic and smartphone-friendly art, thus bringing together two different artistic processes, to create a mix of images and emotions, of experiences and knowledge.
Venice Photo Lab thus becomes a space, physical and mental, where tradition and contemporaneity meet, linked by the same creative process even if with different results.In this space, the photos coexist with the traditional work of decorators and restorers, which continues even during the exhibition period; so the stories told by MANY photographers mix with those of the artisans within a wonderful frame made of brick walls, stone dust, stucco and colors that speak to us of traditions, experiences and manual skills.

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Photo © by Michele Palazzo

July 6, 2020
Treviso Photographic Festival

We are honored to announce the new partnership with Treviso Photographic Festival.
The festivals goal is to bring art free of charge to the center of the squares, a moment to reflect, focus on an image, get excited, look up and look at the buildings as if they were an open-air museum, with no entrances or exits.
It will take place in the beautiful city of Treviso, 40 km from Venice.
The festival takes place in the following areas of the city: Borsa Square – Crispi Square – University Square – S. Maria de Battuti Square – San Vito Square – Cloister of San Francesco – Sagrado church of San Vito Santa Lucia and Sant’ Agostino – Latin Neighborhood.

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July 6, 2020
Barry Talis
Barry Talis

Awards, exhibitions, Barry’s work stands tall and talks for itself.
Barry has an immense understanding of natural and artificial light,
he delves in and out of the realm of religion exploring human nature and bringing us along for the ride.
Barry is a member of the international photography collective Burn My Eye .

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June 28, 2020
Vicky Hsieh
I’m Vicky from Taiwan. It’s been two years since I bumped into the street photography, a world I felt truly fascinating. I was before a high school teacher but considered finding a lifelong interest an important mission. I dare to say, “It’s street photography.”
Over these years, I have learned to wait and discover the sparkles in every city. I could be a participant but also a bystander, vanishing in the crowd just for that transient moment. Beside authentically showing the links between people, objects, and the environment, the most intriguing aspect is that every photographer presents the same scene differently due to diverse angles. I love this kind of diversity, vitality and imagination, essences only street can provide.

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About The Collection

In the collection selected, I mixed lights, shadows, colors, and geometrical shapes. Construct and Deconstruct. If photos are canvas, then street and people are pigments. Most pictures were taken in Taipei, a playground where I should always prepare for the surprises with my shutter. Enjoy!
June 28, 2020
Tarik Iki
I come from Paris. I started photography by chance 3 years ago now.I photograph what surrounds me.Each picture has a story you can tell yourself ,I show people what they can see if they are not absorbed by their phone or their thoughts

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June 28, 2020
Hersley-Ven Casero
Hersley-Ven Casero is a multidisciplinary visual artist, street & documentary photographer born and based in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Growing up in a small rural village in the Visayas region, his passion for photography began during his time in college, where his artistic eye was noticed by LA Times photographer Luis Sinco, and he was sponsored equipment and mentored by him. Upon graduating, Hersley did a stint as an Art & Photography course teacher at Foundation University, and also conducted – along with his mentor, and Magnum photographer Eli Reed – a series of South Pacific Photography Workshops. Now, as a full-time artist, when he’s not in his studio, he is out on the streets with his camera in hand. Over the years, Hersley has developed a reputation in his home city as a prolific and passionate street and documentary photographer, quick to the scene of historical events, and from time-to-time his photographs are featured in local newspapers, as well as national and international publications. His long-term passion project is his ‘Catch a Moment’ street photography series, in which he catches split-second snapshots of elements aligning in humorous and uncanny ways in everyday life.

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About The Collection

As I mature as a photographer, and as a person, I find myself becoming increasingly aware of the transience of human beings, particularly in the context of wherever they may be, or whatever they may be doing, at any given time. I am fascinated by the fact that every time I click the shutter in front of a stranger moving and interacting within their environment, I have captured a little piece of the absolute randomness of life, a snapshot of an otherwise unremarkable moment in history, that is timely, comical, tricky to the eye or just plain beautiful. It really is an incredible feeling when suddenly, out from the mundane, the Universe delivers a fleeting and uncanny moment of magic and *click*, it’s not lost forever, but a recorded and tangible piece of art.
June 28, 2020
Vasco Trancoso
Born in Lisbon, Portugal. I became a gastroenterologist and from 1983 lived in the city of Caldas da Rainha in the center of Portugal. However after retirement I resumed my sleeping passion for photography. During 2015/2016, my photographic “voice” has changed and my work has been “in colors” and I started by photographing my hometown (about 30 thousand inhabitants). As a result, a photo book with the name “99” was born (launch at January 2020), with 99 photographs. https://youtu.be/wVzhkovtzuQ The book includes an Essay by David Gibson and an Afterword by Paulo Abrantes.

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About The Collection

I have been fascinated to discover the magic of light in the urban kaleidoscope mainly when fragments of colors emerge between deep shadows. A way of seeing through the primacy of aesthetic choices, geometries and the elaboration of contrasts. The plastic approach, the chromatic composition, the emotions and the graphic impact are decisive. These Photographs are featured in my photo book “99”. Info about the book and ordering at [email protected]. The book deserved some words from Matt Stuart: “What a nice surprise to receive, a beautifully produced photo book, laced with (99) wonderful colorful photographs. A mixture of Cristobal Hara, Alex Webb and Costa Manos all rolled into one! Great work”.
June 28, 2020
Sergio Kaufmann
I’m a Portuguese photographer living in Lisbon and began my photography journey 4 years ago the moment I started to bike to work. The bicycle gave me the freedom and time to explore and see things in a different way. Since then I’ve never stopped photographing and trying different things. I’m always looking for light and shadows interacting with people and the way it changes the environment during the day.

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June 28, 2020
Thomas Hackenberg
It all started with that magic B/W masterpiece by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a photograph which I saw as a photographic beginner in a book in the early 1980s and which accompanied me through my whole life, giving this initial spark to my interest for showing people in the public realm. The black-and-white picture of a small boy, carrying home two huge wine bottles with an expression of pride and joy on his face. When I saw this picture, it struck me like lightning: How on earth could a photographer be there, see and catch such an intimate, candid moment? What he said to be The Decisive Moment. With the equipment available at that time. This was THE picture for me which changed everything, motivating me to go out and try to find great pictures around the next corner, never knowing what awaits me and what life has in store for me. After all, it’s all about curiosity.
As a teenager, I had a subscription of German GEO magazine, showing, among other things, the pictures taken by the famous German photojournalist Thomas Hoepker at regular intervals. These pictures also had a key influence on me. Although they were published in a documentary and journalistic context, they showed life on the streets of the world – street photography in the truest sense of the word –, whether in the German Democratic Republic of that time, New York, or Beijing. These were pictures which burned themselves into my memory and which I never forgot since then, providing me with internally memorized guardrails for my own photographic passion.
After a longer break dedicated to my professional career in the language industry, I had more time to spend on photography again about ten years ago and never stopped going out on the streets since then. My biggest influences today comes from names like Martin Parr, Matt Stuart, Nick Turpin, Dougie Wallace, Fred Herzog or Tony Ray-Jones, just to name a few. I also do love the work of the contemporary photographers represented by collectives such as iN-PUBLIC, UP Photographers, OBSERVE, Little Box or The German Street Photography Site.
What is more, I am a keen collector of photobooks. For me, it is important to explore the work from as many different photographers as possible, seeing and understand their approaches and photographic languages, which helped me to find my own way and decide which of my own photos are good or not so good, something which I still find hard to tell sometimes. Finally, I am a music enthusiast and couldn’t live without it. Music also has a big influence on my photographic language.

Two of my pictures were Finalists in the 2017 edition of STREETFOTO SAN FRANCISCO and the SIENA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS (SIPA) 2020.

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About The Collection

My collection shows typical examples of my photographic work in public places. I see myself as a flaneur, an observer, trying to see things that others might not see, to make something out of nothing, find something special in the ordinary. All of my photos were taken candidly; nothing is staged or manipulated. Technology is not so important for me, after all, it’s the eye that decides and finds the picture. I shoot RAW and apply modest postprocessing. The major part of my photos shows people, which is an important element for me. From time to time, I find a street still-life or try to combine different layers in a minimal composition. I like ordinary street scenes, often waiting until all the elements come together, often revisiting places, often returning home with nothing.
June 28, 2020
Bunty Gandhi
Myself Bunty Gandhi. I live in Navsari which is a small city of Gujarat. Photography for me started out of some life changing setbacks in 2017. Initially, for a few months, I was shooting whatever I came across, but slowly I developed interest in street photography… but I was still far away from what you called real street! It’s later in end of 2018, I understood what street photography actually is.
As a street photographer, I try to bring echoes and feelings places in contrasts to my pictures. I don’t have specific collection. I shoot anything which I find interesting and which connect to me. But, it’s real hard to shoot streets here in small city with many limitations so I keep changing my ideas and perspective to get most out of it.

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June 28, 2020
Sudeep Lal
My name is Sudeep Lal. I’m based in New Delhi, India. I’m a self taught serious amateur. I started dabbling with photography sometime around 2014. Initially it was lot of travel and random photography. In the year2015 I was introduced to the genre of ‘Street Photography’ and the works of the great masters. I was immediately drawn to the genre and since then have settled down with Street photography. I predominately shoot in colour and the likes of Alex Webb, David Alan Harvey, Harry Gruyaert and Raghubir Singh have greatly inspired my work.

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About The Collection

I have always been intrigued by the drama which quietly unfolds around us in our daily lives. It is exciting to walk the street not knowing what unexpected encounters await you just around the bend. This is an attempt to steal such moments and record it before it fades away into obscurity.
June 28, 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.