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London Street photography - Where is that definitive body of work?
Articles / London Street Photography

The start of an exploration into whether Martin Parr is right, that there is “no real ultimate body of work on the streets of London”

By James Dodd

Reality Remade - John Goldsmith
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Street photographer John Gold takes the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray out for a street photography spin.

By James Dodd

Reality Remade - Peter Dench
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There’s just over a week left to submit your proposal to our reality remade street photography competition with Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Studio, so we thought we’d send one of our judges, Peter Dench, on a mission to test out the Xperia ray devices our finalists will be using. Here’s what he had to say: “Apart [...]

By James Dodd

Six Photographers Discuss the Aesthetics of Australian Street Photography
Articles / Interviews

©Spyro Palamaras Spyro Palamaras Australian street photography is all about light and people who love living outdoors.  You can’t escape it, you can’t ignore it: it will inevitably take over your photography.  This light is just too tempting, too easy to just drop exposure by 2 stops, get some contrasty film (or fake it in [...]

By James Dodd

Running with the boys
Articles / Features

Once in a while I receive a random e-mail full of trifling talk about my photographs and, specifically, about something I consider to be my passion and my right; photographing on the streets. The latest one came right after I expressed my liking for a certain male photographer’s personality, but not his latest work. It [...]

By James Dodd

Riots and Police Violence in Greece - Yannis Kafkas
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Text by Charalampos Kydonakis   After the fall of the military dictatorship in Greece in 1974 Greek people won once more their right for freedom of speech and demonstration. During the 1973 riots, students and other people protested against the military junta for democratic rights. The night of the 17th of November ended with an [...]

By James Dodd

The Dolphin Effect:  Australian Street Photography and the Beach
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©Rennie Ellis Text by Andrew Stark As a race of people, Australians live narrowly upon the front patio of a dry and unforgiving land. We cling to the edge like a U2 groupie on a Luna Park fun ride, garnering succour from the ocean’s breeze and that squishy feel of sea weed pushing up between [...]

By James Dodd

Meeting a Stranger: The Fuji X100: A Street Photographer’s View
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©John Goldsmith – Self-Portraits of Me and the Fuji X100 Excerpt: The new Fuji X100 arrived with great hype. It is marketed as The Professional’s Choice. A Street Photographer’s camera. It is compact and has a retro look that harkens a matured experience but yet comes with the modern convenience of a digital camera. On borrowed time, the [...]

By James Dodd

Japan Earthquake and Charity Print Auctions
Articles / Photographer Spotlight

“This is the country that I have lived in for some time now, and the stoic way the Japanese are coping is simultaneously inspirational and heart-wrenching.” Charlie Kirk on the devastation in Japan

By James Dodd

The Amazing Flo Fox
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Photos by Flo Fox via NYMag I was chatting with a few friends over a Guinness (or two) the other night at Cary Conover’s opening, when Cary walked over to show me a photography book called “Asphalt Gardens.” “Take a look at this and let me know what you think,” he said. “Who is it?” [...]

By James Dodd

“Hipsters, Hustlers and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950-80” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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©Howard Greenberg Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art ©Howard Greenberg Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art “There is a paradox in Levinstein’s approach that is shared by legions of greater and lesser street photographers: he was hunting for the poetry of real life, but what he shot was generally the sort of thing that street photographers generally [...]

By James Dodd

New Scientist: How the camera has made us all voyeurs
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If you’re in London between now and October 3rd be sure to check out Tate Modern’s Exposed – Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera.

By James Dodd