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Blueprint, The New Entertainer (Spain), In These Times (USA), Austin Chronicles(USA), Whitewall(USA) & Sprudge (USA) to name a few.

Sergio Loves Photography & as a Street Photographer, believes Street Photography is the most dynamic & exiting art form on the planet!

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Sergio Burns

Sergio Burns is an Author & a Senior writer for AM, a widely published Journalist in The Mail On Sunday, Contemporary, The Sunday Herald, Blueprint, The New Entertainer (Spain), In These Times (USA), Austin Chronicles(USA), Whitewall(USA) & Sprudge (USA) to name a few.Sergio Loves Photography & as a Street Photographer,… view more.

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A night in the life of Lesley Marion Hunt
Imagine : we, actually, travel around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Life, at that speed, is fast. Everything melts into a supersonic blur of rich colours, ribbons of stars that dazzle in blinding flashes of incandescent light while [...]

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An Unimaginable Dip In The Curvature Of The Uni...
Glasgow - on the street and thinking :The best street photographers conjure up the extraordinary from the ordinariness and the mundane of everyday life.From the stripped back street comes something that is, wild and free and somewhat anarchic like an [...]

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iPhone Graffiti : Altered Image
A Personal Essay by Sergio Burns (Editor At Large)  In response to the line : before the smartphone revolution, someone recently wrote on Twitter : I had a life. A bit melodramatic, I thought, a bit over-the-top, because many people [...]

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Looking Straight Down The Lens….
Look straight down the camera lens, the street will do the rest: Street photography and branded advertising Image credit - Nick Turpin A series of photographs in fleeting microseconds of the present, and just as suddenly, the past? An electric [...]

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Victor Borst's Street photography
VISUAL STORIES : Where Is Your Head At?
What are people thinking at that moment they are photographed on the street? These humans of the everywhere? What are they thinking at that moment of the click? Ordinary individuals moving silently through the drama of their lives when they [...]

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Visual stories : reflections on street photogra...
Glass is beautiful. Sure, it reflects our image, but there is something more, something deeper and more meaningful in the distorted feedback from glass in street photography. A street photograph with glass as a backdrop, the light bouncing back from [...]

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Johnny Mobasher
Visual Stories : The Cinematic Effect – F...
Don't you like the word sub-genre? Sounds like sub and 'John Ra', and means a stylised part or category within a 'genre'. Cinematic street photography is one, often quoted, sub-genre of regular street photography. But what is it, why do [...]

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2017 : Looking Back Through The Lens
I couldn't let 2017 slip away without a backward glance at my own personal street photography year. This year I have had the privilege of talking to some of the most exciting, established and up and coming street photographers around. [...]

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VISUAL STORIES: BUBBLE WORLD
Visual Stories : Bubble World It was street photographer Joshua K Jackson who set the hare's leaping around in the fertile fields of my mind. It was a comment he made about his version of perceived reality, and the world(s) [...]

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STREET.LIFE.PHOTOGRAPHY – Street Photogra...
Between September 11, 2019 to February 16, 2020 an international exhibition on the history of street photography will take place at the Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna. Titled: STREET. LIFE. PHOTOGRAPHY - Street Photography from seven decades – the exhibition [...]

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Street Photography and the Great Beyond of Indi...
Street Photography and the Great Beyond of Individual Existence Light, shadow and colour, not to mention brightly decorated trees, sparkling street illuminations and snow? Well, maybe snow. Okay, you guessed, well done you, yes, yes, yes, it is Christmas. At [...]

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This Life, This Isolation
This Life, This Isolation Yeah, we've heard – these ARE unprecedented times. No football, no sports, pubs, clubs and restaurants closed, shopping malls empty. We are ordered to remain at home and only go out for food supplies, medicines and [...]

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Sign of the Times : Street Photography and bran...
Sign of the Times : Street Photography and brands, by design or accident. The semantics of the street, as any street photographer will tell you, is fascinating. Street names, graffiti, poster ads for coming attractions, no loading here signs, no [...]

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The magic of ordinary people : The street photo...
  The magic of ordinary people : The street photography of Harold Feinstein   It is in that look. That glance from the man descending the stairs into the subway. Yes, he looks curious, but also melancholic and pained, and [...]

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Street Photography: The Art of Johnny Mobasher
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 [...]

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CALL IT ELECTRICNESS: THE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED ...
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 [...]

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IN SMARTPHONIA : THE NEW WORLD OF STREET PHOTOG...
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 [...]

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POSITIVELY JONES STREET: DON HUNSTEIN, BOB DYLA...
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 [...]

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Back To Street Photography’s Future: Bren...
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, [...]

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LIGHT, SHADOW AND THE SURREAL: THE ART OF A TEL...
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, [...]

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The Beautiful Game Of Trainspotting For Street ...
Remember Trainspotting? The original 1996 version, not the nostalgia-ridden backslapping of the recent reunion - 2017. Renton (played by Ewan McGregor) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) running up Princes Street, Edinburgh, pursued by security guards. Moving from Princes Street to Calton Road, [...]

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John Free Feature
John Free : Los Angeles railhead and the legend...
The hollowed-out eyes stare out, haunting and lost. Their faces show pain, restlessness and a certain world weariness, these paradoxical rail Transients. Glassy-eyed urchins of no fixed abode, riding freight trains to nowhere, 'gridding' across the United States. A slice [...]

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Richard Sandler, street photography and the eye...
In the gloomy tunnels of the New York Underground, a woman in dark glasses stares out from her carriage and straight down the lens of street photographer Richard Sandler's Leica. Faster than the blink of an eye Sandler depresses the [...]

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Oliver Raschka Here And Now
Of childhood and life : the photography of Oliv...
Childhood is a fleeting point in time, a dreamlike parallel universe of carefree days. A moment in which possibilities, potential and the 'what can be' of the future unfolds. The child's skeleton grows, skin stretches and they reach up toward [...]

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The World of Joshua Ethan Johnson, Street Photo...
Josh Ethan Johnson comes at you – a creative ribbon of brightly coloured light, streaked across a psychedelic sky? Multi-talented, he is, in no particular order, New York resident, street photographer, video maker, GFX designer, musician, lover of Asian food, [...]

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Mathias Wasik : Searching For The Subtext In Chaos
They search eagerly for the sun. Some look down into, what look like, adapted boxes, others stare upward. Protected by specially designed glasses they seek the U.S. solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. Mathias Wasik's series, from the sidewalks of [...]

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Kings of the Road
Desperately Seeking Rob : Rob Krauss In Search ...
His street photography has depth. It is like watching a ghost-like parade of people flitting through life. It is as if we are caught in the glare of existential headlights, staring like traumatised bunnies at the realities of our relatively [...]

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Alex Coghe : Multi-Talented Photographer and Re...
Nothing is ever as it seems. One woman holds another woman's hand as she reads her palm while in the background two ladies with their feet dangling enjoy drinks as they perch on a ledge. An intriguing, and quite innocuous [...]

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Andre Wagner : Here For The Street Photography ...
I call, he answers. He is walking around Brooklyn, New York in the sunshine as we talk about his street photography, while I am sat in my kitchen in the UK, cold rain battering my windows. He laughs when I [...]

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Adventures Start Here : The Street Photography ...
The shot is taken looking up at a man with long hair, wearing sunglasses, holding a cigarette, and staring into the distance. The angle is unusual but it adds to the aura, the feeling that there is something of profound [...]

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Damian Milczarek : Up Close and Intriguing
He moves close to his subjects, shows bravery, creating work that is both candid and intriguing. His is a curious glance at a fast-moving world. A world shifting continually on its evolutionary trajectory. Meanwhile, armed with his camera he is [...]

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Chris Toombes : A Life On The Street
His, is a voyeuristic, heat-seeking vision of the world. A street photographer staring at the glare of a fascinating urban universe. Transfixed by the procession of life parading past his own personal 'city drive through'. One distinctive feature of the [...]

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Birka Wiedmaier : Mystery and Intrigue on the S...
The photograph travels, it has its own internal dynamic that, somehow, intrigues. You follow as it leads to the woman's flowing long hair. A strong, and powerful shot it signifies freedom, independence and maybe even a spirited semi-recklessness and adventure. [...]

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Satoki Nagata : Lights In Chicago and Some Awfu...
There is a sense of the restlessness, transition and migration about the 'Lights In Chicago' street photography series of Satoki Nagata. A fleeting, flowing glimpse of Chicago at night and its residents. With some powerful undercurrents of existential fragility, these [...]

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The Stretching Man
Michael Ernest Sweet : Educator, Writer, Street...
He comes at you with a refreshing frankness, an eagerness to push at boundaries, happy to put his shoulder to street photography borderlands, and shove. Determinedly forthright and honest, photographer Michael Sweet is also an award-winning educator and writer, with [...]

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Darran K Roper : The Multiple Worlds Of Street ...
The woman with the pushchair and with - what appears to be - the head of a rabbit, is looking straight at the camera. In the same instant, the man to her right (our left) shields his eyes against the [...]

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Suzanne Stein : A Walk On The Street Photograph...
Her work is like layer cake. Generous helpings of bleak reality, iced with tenderness, laced with fleeting moments of beauty. Suzanne Stein makes powerful street photographs. Photographs that give a glimpse into another world where existence is played out at [...]

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Secrets On The Street : Michael Ray Nott
The street has many secrets. A public and, yet, very private space, where people move within an organic, urban rhythm of, apparent, chaos and order. Like dancers, following the absurd, sublime, tragic and, often, comic choreography of their own private [...]

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New York Before Cellphones: The Exclusive Story...
New York Before Cellphones : The Exclusive Story of Mason Resnick's Photographic Rediscovery. Ever been curious about that weird feeling you get when you hear a specific piece of music from your past, or view a particular photograph that transports [...]

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Stephen Leslie’s Adventures In Street Pho...
Stephen Leslie's Adventures In Street Photography   Copyright ⓒ Stephen Leslie In one photograph, a young lady with a lizard's tale tends to a baby in a push chair? Meanwhile, a smiling girl apparently has her head in a bubble? Street [...]

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Intimate Strangers: The Street Photography of J...
Intimate Strangers : The Street Photography of Jürgen Bürgin. There is a strange and compelling intimacy to the street photography of Jürgen Bürgin. An underlying intrigue that draws us in to his work, while at the same time questioning what [...]

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Street Photography Edas Wong
Imagination is everything and everything is ima...
His work is fascinating, slightly strange, a little off-the-wall, intriguing, and, sometimes, all of these rolled into one. He is a hunter, stalking his subjects, waiting with the patience and determination of a hungry wolf. Always ready to capture the [...]

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Intrigue : The Street Photography of Enrico Mar...
Intrigue : The Street Photography of Enrico Markus Essl His work is like a sideways glance into other people's lives. A playful minimalism where, often solitary - though not always - figures are set out against vast landscapes to ponder [...]

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Toying With Interpretation and Narrative : The ...
Life on the street as a photographer – a street photographer - is like making up your own personal interpretation of existence, the world according to (insert name here). The photographic world of llan Burla is the streets of Tel [...]

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Street Tales of New York City: The Street Photo...
New York City's sweeping thoroughfares and claustrophobic side streets are, for him, the perfect studio. An opportunity to capture images of his fellow Gothamites, using his own unique angle on the thrilling art of street photography : up close and [...]

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Creative Fictions : The Street Photography of G...
The "Street Photography" of Gustavo Minas Who doesn't feel that some street photographs have an emotional edge to them? If a street photograph moves us in some way then we can, and we must, say that it has something. Greatness, [...]

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Kim Aldis and his Brilliantly Understated Momen...
His background is impressive. He has, in a word, 'always' been out there, pushing time and space around to create art. Initially as an assistant photographer and then as an assistant director working on music videos with Madness, Ian Dury, [...]

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Street Life Montevideo: Gonzalo Gómez and Gusta...
Is there a particular South American angle on street photography? A specific photographic culture that presents a new dynamic only found in places like Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina et al? Difficult to say, of course, if a dazzling 'magic realism' is [...]

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The City As Giant Movie Set : The Street Photog...
The City As Giant Movie Set : The Street Photography of Joshua K. Jackson Good street photographers, like writers, tend to have a 'voice'. That is, a distinct and, often, curious style that sets them apart from their contemporaries. For [...]

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Concept Albums,Floaty Vibes and Edgy Grittiness...
Concept Albums, Floaty Vibes and Edgy Grittiness : Street Photography of Yiannis Yiasaris The Project, admittedly, fascinated me. A series of street photographs linked by a fizzy drink draped in a distinctive red and white can. A street photography 'concept' [...]

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Street Photography and the Great Beyond of Indi...
Street Photography and the Great Beyond of Individual Existence Light, shadow and colour, not to mention brightly decorated trees, sparkling street illuminations and snow? Well, maybe snow. Okay, you guessed, well done you, yes, yes, yes, it is Christmas. At [...]

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The Understated Quirkiness of Uncertainty : The...
The Understated Quirkiness of Uncertainty : The Street Photography of Michele Liberti Copyright ⓒ Michele Liberti Head down, the man in Italian street photographer Michele Liberti's photograph, clings to a pole. We see the top of his head, a slight shadow [...]

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The Curiosity of Strangers : The Street Photogr...
The Curiosity of Strangers : The Street Photography of Francesco Gioia. Why are we so fascinated by the mood, rush and tear of the city, the wild, the innocent and the E Street shuffle (to pay quick and fleeting homage [...]

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Gotham Storyteller : The Street Photography of ...
Gotham Storyteller : The Street Photography of Angela Ambrosini Her work impresses. She is, what you might call, a street warrior - her spear of determination (as we soon discover) embedded in her art. Her eyes mirror her thoughtfulness and [...]

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Time, Space and The Photographer : Maciej Dakow...
Time, Space and The Photographer : Maciej Dakowicz and his Street Photography In photography, time hangs in the air. Like a teardrop in the corner of someone's eye might remain static until at last it drops, that, for me, is [...]

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Madly Seeking Mystery :Reflections On the Stree...
Madly Seeking Mystery :Reflections On the Street Photography of Penelope McMorris Think of the photograph as something that flows. It has, like most things, a starting point, a middle and an end – it exists within a frame so it [...]

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Unique Ways of Telling : The Work of Street Pho...
Unique Ways of Telling : The Work of Street Photographer Artem Zhitenev. You have to be imaginative. The visual world, after all, is significant. It is a geographical, historical, economic, social, and political - the five forces as I call [...]

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The Shock of the New Tech and Who We Are : The ...
The Shock of the New Tech and Who We Are : The Thoughts and Work of Street Photographer Richard Koci Hernandez I like the sound of – interconnectedness. It has a ring to it... like global. The idea that the [...]

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LA Stories : The Street Photography of Jake Mic...
LA Stories : The Street Photography of Jake Michaels The colours are warm and subtle. Glowing orange, warm yellows, browns and reds, often crossed by mysterious shadows. His photographs are studded with cars and buildings that help frame the narrative [...]

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Signs of America : John Conn’s Street-cum...
Signs of America : John Conn's Street-cum-Documentary photography. His is the sweep of time. The unseen changes in the creeping vicissitudes of existence and the people on the street. He is an outlier. 'Stranded' the sign says, the piercing eyes, [...]

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Street Dreams : The Street Photography of Melis...
Street Dreams : The Street Photography of Melissa Breyer She stares out at the neon. It says 'Milk' and is reflected on the window. The 'Watchwoman' is feeling her way across the transparent wall as she polishes the glass. A [...]

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Day and Night on the Polish Street – the ...
Day and Night on the Polish Street - the street photography of Marcin Baran A woman holding an umbrella strides across a rain-soaked street at night. Copyright ⓒ Marcin Baran Maybe it is the journalist in me, but when I look [...]

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Light is everything to the artist : the street ...
Light is everything to the artist : the street photography of Markus Andersen It says : 'You imagine what you desire.' Really? So, what does...? The slogan is written on the front of a large building which looks, suspiciously, like [...]

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A glance back at a strange year
A glance back at a strange year. How weird was 2020? As we approach Christmas and move into 2021 it is a time for reflecting, for looking back at what has happened over the last 12 months. But, let's try, [...]

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Cinematic, ghost-like, surreal? The enigmatic s...
Cinematic, ghost-like, surreal? The enigmatic street photography of Giovanni Antonio del Vescovo. I don't want to use the word 'cinematic' or 'ghost-like' but both are qualities that resonate with his body of work. An Italian magic realism style of street [...]

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The art of the visual story : Photojournalist, ...
The art of the visual story : Photojournalist, documentary and street photographer Bob Cooley shares his thoughts. “Storytelling,” he said thoughtfully to my question about what he is trying to achieve with his photography. “I love to tell stories in [...]

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Nomophobia and the street : the street photogra...
Nomophobia and the street : the street photography of Laurent Delhourme Okay... I admit to being fascinated... We step back...and...November 28, 2007, we are in the Orange Store on 125 Avenue des Champs – Élysées, Paris, France. The first ever [...]

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It is hard to be a saint in São Paulo : the str...
It is hard to be a saint in São Paulo : the street photography of Peter Buchan What was it Bruce Springsteen sang? Something about Jesus in the streets? About him emerging from the noise and the fury of the [...]

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The World of street photographer Raul LaCroix
The World of street photographer Raul LaCroix Wasn't it Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz who said that 'seeing is not enough'? That 'you have to feel what you photograph'? That is the impression I get when I see the work of [...]

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Faces in the street : The street and portrait p...
Faces in the street : The street and portrait photography of David Gleave There is a fully-wired, nerve-tingling edginess in every shot. An electricity – no other word for it - that emanates from his close-up and personal style. The [...]

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Light, Architecture, People and Patterns : The ...
Light, Architecture, People and Patterns : The intriguing street photography of Jan Gessler The first thing you notice is the way he uses angles, the way he harnesses light, the way he uses architecture as a backdrop and the patterns [...]

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The City and the Shooter : The street photograp...
The City and the Shooter : The street photography of Andre Bogaert The best photographs are multi-layered with meaning. True they are all open to individual interpretation but, for me, the best street photographers always have something to say and [...]

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Looking Back : Philip ‘Flip’ Collie...
Looking Back : Philip 'Flip' Collier, 50 Years of Street Photography For me, it is a great shot. Copyright ⓒ Philip Collier Cinematic. Like a scene from a disaster movie. A young man on a bike riding toward an (unseen) apocalypse. [...]

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Chronicles of São Paulo : Brazilian street phot...
Chronicles of São Paulo : Brazilian street photographer and filmmaker Rodrigo Koraicho talks about street photography, his theories and his project Ô Culpa. Copyright ⓒ Rodrigo Koraicho This is going to be interesting, is my first impression, and he doesn't disappoint. [...]

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Miami Beach, Punks and the Street. David Godlis...
Miami Beach, Punks and the Street. David Godlis talks about his five decades as a photographer/street photographer. A man sits in a fold-up chair as the waves of the Atlantic ocean lap around him. The man is wearing a cap [...]

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Travelling at home and abroad : the stories of ...
Travelling at home and abroad : the stories of photographer Peter Dench. Copyright ⓒ Peter Dench It is a curious shot. Martin Parr-like. Two ladies stand by a burger van while we see a man in the foreground has a packet [...]

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Illuminated by an ascending Sun : The exciting ...
Illuminated by an ascending Sun : The exciting street photography and ideas of Nina Welch-Kling The late Helen Levitt (1913-2009) once said - I paraphrase - the aesthetic is in reality itself. She was talking about street photography and there, [...]

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