Anargyros Drolapas’ photographic project, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, constitutes a study of the city of Athens, a meditation on its multifaceted and complex character.
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Confront the immensity of buildings, this strange urban jungle made of concrete, glass, streets and avenues. This example of a perfect city, at every corner, bystanders from around the world : The famous Melting-pot. New York, the most populous city of the new world, perfect playground to go to meet each other.
“In the City” is a collection of black and white photographs taken with an iPhone for a couple of years starting in 2011. Most of the pictures were taken in Northern Virginia and others in the Washington metropolitan area, Chicago, New York and Baltimore.
I feel like I have travelled elsewhere every time I visit Central Park, somewhere not in New York and yet it has the essence of New York. Autumn is my favorite time to go there, maybe it has something to do with my birthday being in October or maybe because it is so beautiful, the air is clear and the nature is full of colors.
I have ironic and grotesque visions, my photography approach is hard with flash. The my obsession is the masks of vanity that people put on the face for hide the their intimacy, is with the flash I interpret this mask with one game of light and shadow.
This series of images revisits my Grandmothers stories of, as she would say: “the homeland, where our people are from.”
Ralph Gräf's project "Vacancy" (”Zimmer frei“ in German) discloses empty rooms of abandoned houses and military bases waiting to be suffused with new life.
An award-winning street photographer who has been creating memorable images in the great photojournalistic tradition since 1962, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered the use of color in this slice of life genre
The urban space is unequally shared between genders. Patriarchal cultural codes make the street as a place dominated by men. If it is well accepted that men can stay in the street, women only cross it.
Urban Moods is a photo project that tells the story of the city dynamism through bicycles and umbrellas captured in constant movement and surrounded by patterns, lines, textures.
These photographs of public spaces are often sober and frugal in feel because I avoid any spectacle or dramatization in the locations. The emptiness is saturated with a subtle attention to color, and the prevailing silence instilled with a vernacular yet metaphysical quality.
Cities are growing day after day. Life is being transformed and accelerated in the middle of modernity. In this context, the urban body is vibrating and experimenting with new adventures. It sneaks between advertising, windows, showcases, colors, prints, shadows and lights.
Cyrille Druart was born in 1980 in Paris. His interest in Art leads to experimenting various fields from an early age. In parallel with Design studies at ESAG-Penninghen in Paris, he learns photography by himself and begins travelling in order to make images.
I began making “urban landscapes” with a medium-format Holga---a $30 plastic camera---in September of 2001, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. My heart was shattered then, and my career was momentarily stalled.
Chicago is, famously, America’s “Second City”, a reference to the inescapable hegemony of New York in our national imagination: the greatest urban achievement of the 20th century.
Thomas Alleman - I left San Francisco in a slow-churning panic in 1988, worn-out and soul-sick from three years of doing reportage in the gay community, which was then being drowned in the first crashing wave of HIV and AIDS.
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
Thomas Alleman was born and raised in Detroit, where his father was a traveling salesman and his mother was a ceramic artist. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English Literature.
The photographs are about the journey. They are about people like myself, who are in between places….in-transit…..en-route. In this environment, there is a special kind of introspective communication
My reference field in the photography is the street, the people and the scenes that take place in it. I can say that I use the camera to record what is going on inside me, through what my eyes see I try to compose an image which best reflects my mood.
The Surreal Line came about during another project to document my trips on the London Underground. At the time, I'd only recently developed an interest in photography, and always had my camera with me, ready for opportunities to take photos during my tube commutes.
Since my first visit in Dessau I’m fascinated by ”Bauhaus“ architecture. Dessau is an industrial city in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and it is famous for its UNESCO world heritage ”Bauhaus“ buildings.
It was on sunny afternoon of March 2015. That was my first time I fall for street photography. It was a Shumay food hawker made me fall in love.
I think that photograph is the reflection of photographer; so if I'm a quiet person, my photographs are more quiet. While other photographers approach a crowd to find a beautiful light and shadow, nice emotion of life, or scene of noisy town
Mindaugas Gabrenas‘ latest project Back to the City was created living in New York City and traveling around the US. Here author combines his passion for landscape and cityscape photography by mixing an American wild landscape with New York City cityscape.
Over the course of my life (at present 61), I’ve been in some ‘diverse life’ situations. The one constant has been photography. Admittedly there have been large patches of time when i was camera less, again owing to ‘diverse’ living arrangements.
City Square is a photography series with it’s genesis in the fleeting moments of street photography. In the early spring of 2010 I found myself city centre in Vancouver, BC as the hard winter light began to soften towards spring.
The city is fleeting, and the faces of people so ghostly and lovely. There's a linear blur to be followed throughout the subway carts and streets.
Actually, these lines should be enough to describe Kostya Smolyaninov’s work from the “Christian” series. I look at the picture where a girl is praying to the Nike sneakers and I am constantly asking myself how come these two parallel worlds can peacefully coexist?
I believe that the essence of the arts including every picture is also a succession of “Creation and Destruction” in this world. At the same time, I make sure that their conducts and processes for creating every art are the works finding light, beauty or brilliant matters like “Hope”, “Dreams”, and “Faith”.
I have a slight preference for Architecture Photography as well as for “Architectural Street Photography, where I combine two subjects of equal importance.
An experimental project born from the desire to make the portraits on the street, but without interacting with the subject and transform their physical characteristics , with the technique of panning .
Twelve years had passed since I last visited the "Big Apple" and my passion for photography at that time was not even a distant thought. This summer, however, I went there specifically for photography.
In the year 2017 Dubai was abandoned by all but a small number of Bedouin origin families. Before leaving, the caretakers of the UAE's zoos, wildlife parks and private animal collections opened the gates and cages of their facilities.
"Dark City" is a series in black and white on the theme of the city. The work on light and shadow draws the black areas of the imagination with subtlety
The series “Mass Culture” was shot in several Asian megacities. It questions the model of mass culture and its effect on the individuality of each of us.
My field of reference is “the street”; I neither seek extraordinary events, nor do I travel around in quest of a subject to photograph. I have been photographing the “riches” of everyday life on a daily basis.
The annual Pacific County Fair takes place in Menlo, WA., and is one of the oldest fairs in Washington, having started in 1896. The county is about 3 hours southwest of Seattle in Pacific County, which is situated along the Willapa Bay and is named for the nearby Pacific Ocean.
As everywhere else, the citizens were kept in a catatonic state, distraught by exhausting workdays, and diverted and gathered in big conglomerates for their leisure. There they could find amusement, shops, technologic gadgets. Above all they could not think and feel.
Street Portraits are the stories I find in my everyday life. These individual beings are expressing their emotions through their eyes, smile, look and body language. They have become part of a narrative.
I am an Italian architect who worked in Italy for many years and since 2011 I have lived and worked in London. Thanks to the cultural and visual richness that this city offers, my passion for photography has evolved into a single project, "Streets of London".
Some of the shots in this series are about what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the “decisive moment”. But most of them are concerned with shadows, silhouettes or unusual configurations of people in urban contexts.
Matteo was born in 1986. He lives and works in Ravenna (Italy). Starting from his first years of university, he slowly develops a deep love for photography, which soon becomes a big part of his life.
These subway pictures were taken about a year ago while I was in school for a bit in New York.
My mum was a teacher in a primary school. I was eight years old when I went with her on a school trip to a Jurassic Park for children. There I took some pictures of fake dinosaurs with my father’s SLR. It was my first time and I used two rolls of film.
Colin has been involved in all facets of the creative industries for all of this professional career. This has ranged from production management to graphic desing, theatre performances to strategic consultancy.
I was immersing myself in black and white fine art photography: landscape, waterscape and architecture. My most current works revolve around the areas of architecture.
The State of Mind series deals with the “thinking moments” and the uncertain atmosphere surrounding the people and places encountered on the road. The book is a limited edition of 500 copies and can be acquired online.
