Features
Photographer Spotlight
Justin Sainsbury is based in Worthing, United Kingdom and a member of the UK Street Collective. He’ll be conducting a street photography workshop 23-24 July in Edinburgh, UK. You can find further details on Radiant Vision. After experimenting with project ideas and running with themes, I find myself coming back to the realisation that I [...]
By James Dodd
Classic Street Photographs
The American legion image by Garry Winnogrand is one of the most iconic street photographs in the world. It’s candid approach and slight canter not only set the tone for a future generation but it also touched so well on the political commentary of the time of its recording. In a sense the photograph follows [...]
By James Dodd
Interviews
Richard Bram, long-time member of iN-PUBLiC, is renowned for his black and white street work, but has recently seriously begun making color street photographs. The premiere exhibition of this new direction will open Thursday at Lunasa in NYC and run through the end of August. Lunasa 126 First Avenue (between 7th and 8th Streets) New [...]
By James Dodd
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
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
Articles / Features
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
Articles
©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
Articles
©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
Flickr Group Features
“With the banking crisis and recession of recent years the public image of the city slicker has never been lower” – images from the City Slickers flickr group.
By James Dodd
Discussion Image
©Siegfried Hansen 42 months ago I left a one word comment under this photo: “strange.” Then a few weeks ago it appeared in the HCSP pool where I saw it again, as if for the first time. I had no recollection of ever seeing the photograph in the past, but again I was immediately drawn to [...]
By James Dodd
Photographer Spotlight
“I was meant to be going on holiday to Tokyo, Japan in two weeks… participating in the Charity Print Auctions seemed the very least I could do” – Stephen Leslie
By James Dodd
Photographer Spotlight
Photographs ©Gus Powell When I began shooting street in 2005 I was working a corporate job in Downtown Los Angeles. I had an hour for lunch and would typically rush and grab a sandwich or burrito, inhale it as fast as I could, then spend the rest of my alloted time speed walking the streets [...]
By James Dodd