Maciej Dakowicz is a Polish photographer that juxtaposes the grittiness of life on the streets with those fleeting moments of brilliance that only the camera is able to capture. Maciej Dakowicz moved across the world in pursuit of inspiration, conjured up narratives that go below the surface of the image. His work presents the viewer with a unique, and…
Girma Berta is an Ethiopian photographer that created a project documenting the people of Addis Ababa. Being a self-taught photographer, Berta uses a combination of street photography and graphic design to create images of passers-by with a painterly quality. Girma Berta captured his subjects in usual scenes. He then isolates them from their context, layering them against…
Yuan Xiaopeng is a Chinese artist and photographer that spends time photographing street scenes of Shanghai. Captured with portrait orientation, the images gather a sense of the city’s multiple identities, channeled through the photographer’s keen eye for chance encounters with light and composition. Yuan Xiaopeng presents in his photo-series views of Shanghai that may otherwise have slipped…
Luc Kordas is a Brooklyn-based photographer that captured the loneliness and the seclusion of the big city New York in his series called “The New York Chronicles”. Luc Kordas roamed the streets of the Big Apple with his camera in hand, in search of the lonely yet extraordinary citizens that make New York what it is.…
Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer was an accomplished mathematician and physicist from Norway, but few know that he was also an amateur photographer. He was walking on the streets of Oslo with the first secret photo camera hidden in the coat. He was a 19-year-old student at the Royal Frederick University when he took the most…
Navin Vatsa it’s a full-time travel and street photographer who is making and reminiscing memories with a simple device called camera. He was born in Delhi, India, and in every winter, he follows flocks of Siberian seagulls migrate through Delhi making nests near Ganga and Yamuna, two of India’s most holy rivers. Photographer Navin Vatsa…
How would you feel if you would walk on the streets with a camera in hand, seeking perfect scenes or places to be captured? Basically, you are walking around in different places day by day and collecting stories in your camera’s photo card. It’s an idea that Jonathan Higbee put it in practice for over…
Like the American Vivian Maier, the Russian artist and theater critic, Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) was a secret self-taught photographer, taking more than 30.000 photographs in her life and nobody knew about them. After her death, her daughter, Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan, was cleaning the attic and found a big collection of negatives. The discovered photographs were showing the daily…
Nobody knew that the nanny Vivian Maier (1926-2009) was a very talented self-taught photographer. She became internationally recognized when an estate sale revealed a series of fascinating photos of her secret hobby. Vivian Maier hidden nearly 150.000 photos, including street photography and self-portraits. Since 2010, her photos have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the…
