Photography

I’m Pierre Belhassen. I started photography 10 years ago. After studying cinema, I was given a camera. I wanted to discover New York City. It became a revelation in my life. I realized that there are endless possibilities and different ways to reinvent reality. For me, there was no doubt. I felt this inner calling which gave sense to everything.

My mother is 43 and ’til 3 years ago she used to live by herself. After my grandfather died in 2012 due to Alzheimer’s complications, my grandma broke her arm. Then she chose to never leave the bed anymore. Her feet is atrophied and mom has to take car of her. They live together in a small apartment in my hometown. Mom was never able to take care of me. I had many homes. Seeing her having to take full-time care of her own mother feels weird. Mom’s star sign is Gemini: she has a very sensitive humour. Her mood is specially bad in the morning. Maybe this is my way of justifying her behaviours.

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I'll give the quickest introduction possible. I'm 22, I began taking photos properly when I started a Level 5 FETEC course in Marino College of Further Education in September 2012. My love for street photography is rooted there. Waiting for a train home in Connolly train station led me to take the camera out and start shooting. We went on many a photo-walk around the city and I never thought I could even point a camera at someone on the street but that all changed very quickly. By the time my course was finished in summer 2013 I was travelling into Dublin for the sole purpose of wandering the streets with my camera to try and capture something ( I didn't know what that something was, I just let things happen) and from there it continued, wherever I was going I brought my camera.

If Baltimore street photographer John Patterson could be invisible when he goes around shooting, he would be. Patterson, who runs a Facebook page and Tumblr called The Uncensored City, likes to capture moments with people in impoverished neighborhoods. Having grown weary of seeing photos of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and other tourist spots, he wanted to show what everyday life is like for residents of these areas.

Stray dogs or pet dogs ,street photography or not street photography ,Shy me or not this project has brought me very close to dogs and also helped me to improve my photography in huge way. It gave opportunity to explore, think out of the box , improve composition and lose myself in the moment while photographing. Is this the completely unique project ? well, no . Recently i also found out about the Humorous, heart warming and brilliant photographs collection of dogs from all walks of life, and all over the globe by- great Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt’s it is indeed inspiring set. 

In this new Streets of the world segment of the show, I take you to Sydney, Australia. Photographer Michael Jolliffe is your guide for this new adventure!

Ryan is co-founder of Black Rhino Creative, an award winning film production firm dedicated to sharing authentic, intimate and engaging stories. A skilled photographer, graphic designer and passionate story teller, Ryan’s rich background in the creative field led him to film making. His talent for reaching the heart of a brand and translating these needs into a solid concept allows Black Rhino Creative to connect audiences with truly engaging and meaningful experiences. Below he talks about the video he created focusing on software artist, writer and educator Jer Thorp that takes a look at how Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations that puts abstract data into a human context Q: How would you describe your photography? A: I aim to capture the everyday around me. As much as I love to explore remote regions and exotic locations, I tend to photograph my everyday life, friends and loved ones. Q: Can you tell us about this project? What was the inspiration, [...]

I have spent most of my life photographing people, from weddings to events, even some time shooting in nightclubs. The majority of the time this has been for clients  but occasionally for myself. M...

The recent National Geographic Travel Contest, edition 2015, made me think. How come that the first prize of such a certainly prestigious contest goes to a black-and-white photograph,

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Since the discovery and exposure of Vivian Maier's work in 2009, this reclusive, mysterious figure—street photographer, nanny, visual genius—has been the subject of widespread acclaim and attention. From monographs to worldwide gallery exhibitions and now the widespread release of a feature film (the second documentary produced about her life and her work), the attention that Maier's story has generated is dwarfed only by the astounding quality of the photographs she left behind.

In the late 1970s Tony Gleaton was immersed in the glossy world of New York fashion photography, aspiring to craft images for major magazines. "I used to live and die between the pages of British Vogue," he once recalled with chagrin.

First I would like to congratulate you on the recent scholarship you won with the Magnum Foundation to attend NYU.  Could you tell us a little bit more about what this means to you and how it will impact your photography?

It means a lot because it will be my first (formal) education in photography. There is this tiny voice inside me that sometimes says people don’t take my  photography seriously because I am self taught, and I envy those who have a degree in photography. I still don’t know a lot about photography, especially technical stuff.

There is a population with Finnish ancestors living in a rural area near Joshkar-ola, in the Republic of Mari-El, Russia. They are called Mari, speak a language belonging to the Ugro-Finnic and use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. They settled in this area around the fifth century a.C. The current population is about 600,000 people.
The Mari are the last pagan population of the West. They live in symbiotic relationship with nature, which is celebrated as the basis of their existence. Nature exerts a magical religiosity on people. It is the mother who protects man, beneficial as long as he does not try to destroy it. The cyclical nature of the land merges with the ancient pagan practices. The faith of the Mari worships the gods of the four natural elements.

John Spencer has been a Street Photographer for longer than many of us, here is some of his work and some of his hard earned wisdom during his 60 years as a Street Photographer.

I just wanted to write you this letter wishing you a happy (belated) birthday, and the lessons in life you’ve taught me, and how much I appreciate your love and friendship.

Shit, I still kind of forget how we first met “virtually.” Was it on your wordpress, Flickr, or somewhere else? Regardless, I remember when I first saw your “bokeh-licious” photos, I was drawn less to the bokeh, and more to the emotions in your photo.

The recent publication of “Return of the Rudeboy,” by the photographer and filmmaker Dean Chalkley and the creative directorHarris Elliott, bears testimony to this history of struggle and survival while taking their stunning exhibition, curated at Somerset House in London last year and at Laforet Museum Harajuku in Tokyo this spring, to a larger audience.A recent book and exhibit showcase the suave street style of rude boy style, which transcends mere fashion to embrace a fierce sense of self-worth.

It all stems from America on film. I'm talking thirty-five millimetre. Medium format. Large format plates. Tight and in someone's face. From across the street. Taking in an entire endless dirt plain with a two-lane blacktop like a giant zipper, stretching across to some distant mountain under a big blue sky Er, daddio. As much joy as I have with the Fuji cameras, as great as the image quality is, there's just something more magical when it comes to film.