Black & White Street Photography Presets
All Streetshooter Presets presets are not made equal. Most presets are content to simply alter the looks of an image. Not the presets of Olivier Duong, a Haitian-French-Vietnamese fine art documentary photographer based in south Florida, who says "I'm after breathing life into photographs with our presets. They are not mechanical knobs to us but …
The Rough Streets Of Brooklyn
Two quicksnap cameras, two months – and the rough streets of Brooklyn, New York. When Ben Wessler and Eric Mirbach took to the streets to explore their borough of choice for their series BK42, they did so by skateboard. Grimey streetcorners and hidden neglibilities, unusual perspectives and intense closeness – all captured in grainy drive-by …
Finds By Harry Watts
The original issue of British photographer Harry Watts' Finds was distributed guerilla-style during the Brighton Fringe Festival 2010 and around various locations in London, creating a social frenzy to 'find' Finds. The images from the series depict Watts' captures of the disregarded and discarded materials on our streets, often turning them into sculptures through the …
Los Angeles By Skateboard
Ian Flanigan's Los Angeles by Skateboard series can be seen as a reminiscence on the art of objet trouvé, a form of found art. This used to be an art movement founded by Marcel Duchamp which uses undisguised, but often modified, objects that are not normally considered art materials, except that Flanigan did not pick up …
Look At This People
Street photography is becoming a bit more popular now in China. Look At This People (Akaaka, ISBN : 978-4-903545-76-9), is a series of photos taken by photographer Eric Colour in China’s Yunnan province. ERIC says that he was drawn to the uniquely carefree way that people live there, and there's a real energy to these …
Tokyo Up Close By Yamauchi Michio
When looking at the stark black-and-white or muted monotone images of photographer Yamauchi Michio, the viewer senses the photographer’s presence. What I personally like in his work is that Yamauchi doesn't look for the finer technical points of the latest lenses and digital camera bodies. Instead, he focuses on photography and the image itself. Yamauchi …
An Urban Photo Experience In Buenos Aires
Did you ever thought upon a way of discovering and capturing the city in a more authentic and alternative way? Foto Ruta is a new company based in Buenos Aires created by two girls, one from canada and the other from the UK. It is an interactive street photography project designed to get people off …
Shibuya – Lost Forever in the Crowd
Shibuya ($75, ISBN: 978-981-08-6577-1, limited to 500 copies) by photographer Nguan is a collection of street photographs within the vicinity of one of Japan's busiest transportation hubs. During this uncertain age, even the daily commute can seem fraught with trials. It unfolds and examines life as it is: unpredictable. These candid portraits depict Tokyo's itinerant …
Takinyerphoto: Candid Street Photography in NYC
Anthony D. takes candid photographs around New York City and wherever else he might end up along the way. D says, "I take these pictures with my iPhone 4 and Canon 7D. I started doing this around October 2010, most people are not aware that these pictures are being taken. it’s not creepy, it’s art." …
Discover the Vintage 80s with Johnny Stiletto
Johnny Stiletto has them all! In Stiletto's London street photography you get Mick Jagger, New Romantics, ra-ra skirts, Boy George, Sloane Rangers. The beginning of Covent Garden, yuppies, the IRA bombings, the Iranian Embassy siege. Hundreds of headlines – John Lennon Shot Dead, Royal Romance: Andrew To Wed. Margaret Thatcher’s London, fashions that came and …
Black and White Photography Mastered by Chema Hernández
The beautiful play with light and shadow in the black and white photographs of photographer Chema Hernández made me look. Chema Hernández was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1963. Hernández got a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Salamanca in 1990 and his photography have been shown in several solo and group exhibitions since …
Pictures Rich with Realism, Absurdity and Instances From Banal to Extraordinary
Richard Fish's photography somwhere between street and urban photography involving social issues and changes within the social landscape. Fish was also recently selected as one of the six finalists of the London Street Photography student Awards and been nominated for the Peoples Choice Award for his portfolio book. Teresa Talbot writes, "He sees, shoots and …
Street and Portrait Photography Thoughts by David Severn
David Severn is a young photographer from Nottingham, England. David Severn explains in the following his very own thoughts upon his Street and Portrait Photography shots. "In the photograph above I used to go to this unusual little cafe-cum-restaurant in The Old Truman Brewery, just off Brick Lane in London. It was unusual in the …
Phil Sharp – Black and White Portraits
Phil Sharp is shooting fashion, editorial and music for the most part. He was born in suburban west London, grew up in the Midlands and after a couple of years of hi-jinks in New York City has now made his home back in London. Sharp also has an extensive Flickr stream of over 2,000+ photos …
One Of A Kind Photographer Michael Jang
Cowboys, punk scene, LA movie premieres and heroes. Michael Jang's photographs are among a lot of collections, like his photograph of David Bowie signing autographs at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which is among the SFMOMA collection or like his photograph of Frank Sinatra at the March of Dimes "Man of the Year" in 1973. Hamburger …
The Season To Be … Greasy Christmas
The greasy spoon cafe has long held a special place in the hearts and stomachs of the UK. No more so than at this time of year when we soak up too much seasonal cheer. Alan Powdrill's latest personal project GREASY CHRISTMAS combines his two jobs as ‘full English’ tester and photographer. Shot over one …
10 Years of In-Public
Nick Turpin started the in-public website in 2000 to foster a community of practicing street photographers. The illustrated book '10' is published to commemorate ten years of the in-public international street photographers group and features ten images from each of the groups 20 photographers. Over the last decade in-public has played a major role in …
