I was immediately drawn to Alberte’s work because his photographs are almost paintings – they are clean, simple, yet also visually rich and powerful. I like it when a street photographer can make good clean shots and show me just [...]
I was immediately drawn to Alberte’s work because his photographs are almost paintings – they are clean, simple, yet also visually rich and powerful. I like it when a street photographer can make good clean shots and show me just [...]
(Interview originally conducted in French) I love the work of Charles Petit and not only because it reminds me of my own work. Yes, we both have an obsession with the close-up. Yes, we both love to shoot stray hands [...]
LIGHT, SHADOW AND THE SURREAL: THE ART OF A TEL AVIV GABI BEN-AVRAHAM STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
Sergio Burns, 8th May 2017
He presents his art, street photography, as a slight, though perceptible, indentation in cosmic time. A ripple of inspiration, an unexpected occurrence, a juxtaposition, a contradiction or irony, snapped in a fleeting microsecond. The object, dappled in light and shadow, [...]
We can't see the subject's face, obscured by flowing brown-cum-maroon hair (to match her boots?) as she stands back to wall looking down, glued to her smartphone. A self-consciously symmetrical photo of a fashionista, of sorts, in sawn-off denim and, [...]
POSITIVELY JONES STREET: DON HUNSTEIN, BOB DYLAN AND A GREAT STREET PHOTOGRAPH
Sergio Burns, 28th April 2017
On a bitterly cold day, February 1963, a singer/songwriter and his girlfriend come walking down Jones Street toward 4th West Street, West Village, New York. Music echoes in their footsteps: How many roads must a man... On either side of [...]
IN SMARTPHONIA : THE NEW WORLD OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY? IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD KOCI HERNANDEZ
Sergio Burns, 28th April 2017
Like something from a cyberpunk novel, 30 per cent of us now shuffle around our homes in the middle of the night checking our smartphones for messages (Deloitte Global Mobile Survey 2016). In the UK, that means 21 million (USA [...]
CALL IT ELECTRICNESS: THE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED STREET PHOTOGRAPHY OF HAKIM BOULOUIZ
Sergio Burns, 28th April 2017
Call it 'electricness' – an architectural know how, a sense of light, shadows, colours, black and white, graffiti, images. In Hakim Boulouiz' Wax Dolls, an award winning series of photographs, a man glances down the camera lens, behind, we see [...]
She turns, mouth agape, surprised in the process of taking a photograph of herself, while, simultaneously, an image is taken of her by an out-of-frame photographer. The shades-wearing woman turning surprised toward the image-taker like a startled hare caught in [...]
Expecting the Unexpected: An Interview with Spyros Papaspyropoulos
Michael Ernest Sweet, 10th March 2017
Spyros Papaspyropoulos has been at street photography for several years now. His work, although constantly evolving, is solidly good work. I see a lot of Bruce Gilden, a hint of Roger Ballen, and even a dash of Robert Frank, from [...]
The Woman Who Took Ginsberg’s Apartment: An Interview with Sally Davies
Michael Ernest Sweet, 10th March 2017
New York photographer Sally Davies is a bit of an anomaly. She’s a woman in what many see as an overwhelmingly male “game” and, if that weren’t enough, she’s a street photographer too, well, sort of. That’s the other side [...]
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