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Manuel Pena
My name is Manuel Pena and I’m a self-taught photographer from New York. I developed my passion for photography in 2015. Since then I moved to capturing everyday moments in the streets of New York. My goal is to tell stories using light, shadow, composition and color. I only have one rule: Shoot anything that interests you and the pieces will fall in place.

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About The Collection

Beauty in the mundane
I don’t have a specific goal when I go out on my daily travels. It seems anything can be beautiful. You just have to be open in seeing and knowing when it’s there. I have to admit being a photographer in NYC can be unfair at times. I don’t have to look too hard as there are always things going on around me. These photos represent what New York is through my eyes. Enjoy!
June 24, 2020
Paul Kessel
Paul Kessel

After a career in clinical psychology and university teaching, I began photography late in life. (one-month shy of my 70^th birthday).
I always owned a camera before this time but rarely used it. In 2008 I started photography courses at The International Center of Photography in NYC and never stopped until ten years later. Originally, I was interested in portrait photography but discovered
street photography and became immersed in it.

I became a street photography workshop junkie and I feel that I have learned from some of the best. Now when I am outside, my camera is always with me and ready.
I worked on projects for a number of years. All culminated in self-published “Blurb Books”. There are 18 of them. More recently, I shoot randomly with the hope of finding an interesting image. My random street photography is self-published in the Blurb Book, “Never the Final Edit, version 6”.

I have been in about 85 group exhibitions. Some are by invitation and most are from contests. In addition, I have had 3 solo shows at NYC Galleries.
I have been a Finalist in the Miami Street Festival twice (2017 and 2018), the San Francisco Streetfoto Festival, the London Street Festival, and I was the winner of the most recent Los Angeles street contest (“Shooting Around the World_LACP 2020). I was a Lens Culture Street Finalist (2016, 2020) and won 3^rd place award in 2020.

I have also been the winner of a few other events, nationally and internationally.
I treat street photography as a sport and I have yet to hit a homerun, a hole in one, or a 3 pointer from mid court. It is the quest and the elusiveness of a truly good photograph that keeps me going.

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About The Collection

The twenty pictures included here are mostly relatively recent and are not necessarily part of a particular project. Most of them are culled from a project I had worked on, but many are random photos in public places, typically the street but sometimes on the beach, subway, or elsewhere. Most of these photographs have appeared in exhibitions. Some may appear to be portraits but all twenty are candid. I prefer to photograph multi-layered street scenes, but I often settle for a candid portrait with a bit of context.
June 20, 2020
Joshua Ethan Johnson
Joshua Ethan Johnson

Josh lives in NYC and makes documentary films and photos.
In 2015, Josh began an ongoing project called FACES (faces-pictures.com) which consists of spontaneously shot documentary films and photos.
He’s made over 26 films and thousands of photos under this project and has no plans to stop.
Josh makes his living as a filmmaker and photographer and spends most of his off hours making even more films and photos while finding time to fly fish as much as possible.

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June 20, 2020
Katerina Christina
Katerina Christina is a 25-year-old, Greek-American fine art street, documentary, and studio photographer based in San Francisco. She first picked up a camera in early 2018 in search of a creative outlet to balance her mechanical engineering studies at Stanford University. What started as a hobby is now a daily source of inspiration and appreciation of the world around her. Her street photography focuses on slowing down to appreciate the small but powerful moments we often miss consumed in technology—the quiet moments in the chaos. Her perspective in street photography is shaped by the chaos of the years before and at Stanford when she rarely took the time to appreciate the swiftly passing moments around her. Now she documents these moments every day with the hope that others will be inspired by her images to slow down and take in the world around them with admiration and respect.
Her long-term documentary project ‘Shattered Glass’ tells the stories of women around the world who are shattering barriers and expectations in male-dominated roles, giving fellow females the role models, exposure, and resources they need to break into these fields, all while unapologetically embracing their femininity.
Outside of photography, Katerina creates line drawings with both pen and charcoals. Her style mirrors that of her photography, using minimalism to evoke emotion and intrigue.

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June 20, 2020
Zach Kalman
I am a photographer living in the Washington, DC area. I make pictures in the places where live and work, but I don’t feel that my photography is about those places. Instead, I engage in the self-indulgent practice of photographing whatever it feels good to point the camera at. My wife and son are the inspiration for everything I do, and the theme of family seems to show up in many of my pictures.

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About The Collection

This is a set from a larger body of pictures I have made over the last few years, and continue to make, in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and New York.
June 1, 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
Mathias Wasik
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.

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About The Collection

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.
April 30, 2020
Eric Davidove
I am a California native street photographer who currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, and started taking photography seriously after finding myself unemployed in March 2015. My time spent as a street mime came in handy, giving me the ability to anticipate street moments and be there with my camera as they happen, and to take photos without being noticed or upsetting people. The most important thing is that I am having fun and learning something new. Let’s see where this new passion leads me.
Some of my proudest photography achievements over the past year:

Exhibitions
Miami Street Photography Festival 2019 Finalist
StreetFoto San Francisco International Street Photography 2019 Finalist
Italian Street Photo Festival 2019 Finalist
London Photo Festival Monthly Competition 2019 Finalist
Camera USA 2020 Finalist

Awards
Editor’s Selection for the 2020 LensCulture Street Photography Competition
Honorable Mention for the Exhibart Street Contest 2nd Edition (2019)
Gold Medal for the Paris Street Photo Awards (2019)
Honorable Mention for the International Photography Awards Street Photography Category (2019)

Publications
Feature photographer in the Street Photography Magazine April 2020 Issue
Featured photographer in The Streets Magazine (2019 Collection)
Two featured photos in the 3rd (2019) Chromatic Awards Annual Book
Three featured photos in the World Street Photography 6 (2019) Annual Book
One featured photo in the CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year Annual Book

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About The Collection

These photos were all made in California over the past 3 years and they’re a fairly good representation of my street photography style and approach. I seem to have a bent towards quirky and humorous moments and a knack for being in the right place at the right time. My photographs often include some motion and are shot during the day time. Recently, I have been focused more on light, shadows, and layers with a desire to bring more of these aesthetic qualities into my work.
April 28, 2020
Kramer O’Neill
Kramer O’Neill grew up in the northeastern United States with a darkroom in the basement and the nagging suspicion he wasn’t getting the full story. Decades later and a continent away, little has changed.

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Where They Fall
Where They Fall considers people and the places they fall: from the air, on the issues, into the water, in line, in love, off the earth, out of fashion, to the ground, into dreams, from here, for you.
April 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.