Photography

The Non-Conformists is a new exhibition of 75 photographs by Magnum documentary photographer Martin Parr, taken in the West Yorkshire mill town town of Hebden Bridge and the surrounding Calder Valley between 1975 and 1979. The exhibition takes its title from the Non-Conformist Methodist and Baptist chapels in the area – but also nods to the fiercely independent character of the town

Last year I launched a new initiative called the Streettogs Academy, a biweekly challenge for motivating and sharpening the skills of street photographers around the world. Photographers are given 2 weeks to shoot photos for the latest theme and upload 1 to 3 of them to our Facebook page.

Our latest assignment was “Black and White.” The submitted photos that received the most attention from members of the group were those that had the simple basic requirement of a good image: a strong visual hook. Here’s a look at photos.

What links the portraits in this article? The figures here are very different: a young Burmese girl elaborately encased in metal-hoop adornments, from a century before Paco Rabanne launched his radical metal couture; a Wigan mining girl of the 1860s with the paraphernalia of her trade, a prototype of Irving Penn’s Small Trades series; Oscar Wilde in the precious costume affected by aesthetes of the fin de siècle; a trio of young Germans photographed by August Sander for his 1929 anthology Antlitz der Zeit; and chic Vogue editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt, photographed on the street in Paris in 2007 by The Sartorialist.

Three decades ago, Steve McCurry took arguably the most iconic picture of all time.

Yet even after all this time, the pre-eminent photographer brims with enthusiasm when he talks about "Afghan Girl."

Kenji Kawamoto est un artiste japonais. À Tokyo, il a capturé des businessmen ivres au petit matin qu’il compile dans une série intitulée « Yopparai Tengoku », en français « Le paradis des ivrognes ».

John Free is a social documentary/street photographer who lives in Los Angeles. His photographic essays have ranged from railroad tramps in California to automobile abstracts to Paris street life. 

With that in mind, how do we determine who is worth listening to and who isn’t? Unfortunately, there’s not a cut and dried answer to this question and, ultimately, it’s a decision you have to make yourself. However, there are some principles to keep in mind when deciding who you will allow to impact you. Here are the things I ponder:

But what is street photography

Video: Alex Webb discusses finding inspiration, the photographic process and 30 years of shooting Kodachrome. A look behind the lens of a Magnum master!

The Streethunters.net team is on a new hunt! This time we are looking for the 20 most Influential Street Photographers for 2015 and we need your help!

Markus Andersen is back at it again on the streets of Sydney, Australia… but this time he has teamed up with fellow street photographer Elif Suyabatmaz of Istanbul, Turkey. The pair of photographers has just wrapped up a three year long project titled Mirrored where they responded to one another’s images by presenting a similar viewpoint from their respective nations. The final collection echoes the differences and similarities within the Australian and Turkish cultures through the mirrored interpretations each photographer presents.

Il a une heure, une pause-déjeuner, pour déambuler dans les “No-Go Zones”. Ces “zones de combat s’apparentant à l’Irak et l’Afghanistan“ mises en avant par Fox News suite aux attentats qui ont touché Paris début janvier, Julien Bottriaux a décidé d’en montrer le vrai visage. Armé de son Fujifilm X-Pro1 et d’un objectif 35mm, il va simplement à la rencontre des habitants :

Ms. Levine, an American photographer based in Israel, and Ms. Niedringhaus were part of a small sisterhood of photographers who covered conflict internationally. “Whenever I felt frustrated, Anja would always make me smile and was like a beam of light,” Ms. Levine said in a phone conversation. “I highly respected her and respected her judgment.”

It's not everyday I come across someone's street photography which blows my socks off. Marius Vieth's street photography does just that.

The Street Photography London blog aims to bring you interviews from all sorts of street photographers, from the famous to the less famous. Because you don't have to always look at the work of the masters to learn and find inspiration.

StreetHunters.net Reader and Street Photographer Paolo Pino from Italy, kindly shares with the world what is inside his camera bag.

A detailed review of Ed Templeton's book, "Wayward Cognitions" as seen through the eyes of experienced Street Hunter, Adnrew Sweigart.