https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/photographers-i daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609606254054-MMEO7V2HW96RI92LC17Z/anat_shushan.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2020 During my last visit to NYC, I got to spend a lot of time in the subway. I found it to be a street photographer’s heaven. In this specific case, the way that the girl was sitting caught my eyes, the way her head and arm are sub-framed, and her leg is coming out of no where. In addition, all the other stories of the people around her made a perfect background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609611089604-9PYDO6JOIRFL5ODW3SK7/arielle_shannon.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609615531697-6D6RVZ152QUMOSM693A8/billurulku.jpg Photographers | A - C - Homeland: Fener NYC Exhibition, 2020 Fener has been home to Orthodox Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities for centuries. My grandmother is from a Muslim family and grew up in these very streets playing with her Christian and Jewish friends. Her stories brought me to Fener, Istanbul, where our ancestors lived in peace with their neighbors for a very long time. At the age of 93, my grandmother passed away in October, 2020, leaving all these stories to me. Now, the multicultural voice of Fener is a thing of the past, but this little kid makes me think of all children playing under the same sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1543550533203-XQMP9CZAUY621RXAQ4JF/BelindaCorney.jpg Photographers | A - C - IN SYNC - LONDON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609609489255-RR7GKM9E1S8C0756SERE/anne_tapler_white01+%281%29-Edit.jpg Photographers | A - C - Heading Home Against the Rain NYC Exhibition, 2020 One afternoon in Akosombo, Ghana, the monsoon rains came hard and heavy. I took shelter and observed how the people were coping with flying debris, wind, and rain. Street vendors were fighting to take down their umbrellas, and children were running home from school. The woman in the photo showed great determination to reach her destination. I took many photos that afternoon, but this one stood out for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1596564015128-MV5Q5XEORFTLVLHP1X59/chiara_leoni01.jpg Photographers | A - C - Catching Dreams Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2020 NYC Exhibition, 2020 I've always wanted to capture soap bubbles, because they remind me of childhood and good things. I expected this to be a shot with a kid playing, but I never expected to capture a grown woman trying to catch a bubble. The most beautiful things come from the unexpected. I love how, even if you can't clearly see her face, you can definitely feel the happiness and freedom of the moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595877760636-JM330PAA3ENBTPLTJNLK/cince_johnston01.jpg Photographers | A - C - Chance Encounters (and Reflections) Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 On a bitterly cold day in January , I found myself sitting inside a mall waiting for my daughters who had conspiringly gone off to buy a gift. The winter sun was shining through several large windows, bathing shoppers in a golden light and boldly casting their shadows. Since the backdrop of the concrete architecture felt aesthetically too cold to photograph directly, I found myself looking around to find a more subtle way of highlighting the movement and emphasizing this beautiful light, and saw the forms of the people reflected in the window of a nearby shop. Due to January sales, there were no items directly behind the glass but just bold bands of fuchsia and pale pink coloured paper creating a more suggestive and theatrical scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1630593600263-AQPKBL5CMRY9R82RPOOJ/image.jpeg Photographers | A - C https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641752605831-C7YPQR5OE4M2SE3FYCAH/Angela+Boehm.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, June 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641755713325-ILPIL5TNF4NZVVHYUYZS/alice_mariette07.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 This image is part of a series in which I capture my children's adventures via their shadows. I believe that the light and shadows highlight the magical side of childhood, and the end result is a whimsical one. All the images are taken candidly in a documentary or street style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641755740267-9SD1QGCPSLNN7T7DV99U/angelaambrosini.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 This photo was taken in Times Square, NYC. I remember seeing this woman running around the center of town with a bright pink dress on, and, as she kept running, she started to blend in the bright lights of Times Square. It was in that second that time stopped, all sounds ceased, so that I could capture that moment in time. In my mind she is still running in circles, losing herself in the magical lights of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641755952130-DDKNFS3MV1KU0XC5KODE/cathy_loughran09.jpg Photographers | A - C - Boy on Horse 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 “Boy on Horse” was taken in an underprivileged area of the Dublin suburbs called Ballymun. I came across him just like this. I was struck by his pose and his beauty. He was so comfortable with the horse even though it had no saddle on. This was quite a common site in the suburbs of Dublin in the 90's when this photo was taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641755977059-TM0IHFW7MOTWE49G16Q9/chandahall_05+%281%29.jpg Photographers | A - C - American 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 This is one of those photos where everything just came together – the light, shadows, and action, and it hits on that specific joy of summer in the city. The black and white helps emphasize the composition and the play of light and dark, as well as the beauty of the water droplets, and it makes it hard to determine exactly when it was taken, which works well for a scene that has repeated itself over and over through the decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758031638-T1ZO1NQFU1UINHNYYPM7/Ashley+Tillery.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 Van Der Zee’s 1932 image, Harlem Couple, depicts a black couple in fur coats next to an exclusive, expensive Cadillac. Images such as these were an impetus in the Great Migration insomuch as they gave form to the possibilities of life outside the South, a place rife with terrors, indignities, and exploitation but a place a majority of African Americans called home. This picture is very much an homage to Van Der Zee’s 1932 image. The Great Migration is long over, but the power of images to fuel imagination, reset narrative, and compel action remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1581614819987-9DLECQEEXDIQ4VLKC7SS/Warun.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2019 I saw 3 couples that matched together in the same frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758146770-NJ0DVN862Q990DF5A0KF/Cecelia+Cruz.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Family Reunion Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 At the end of every August, street vendors in downtown Puebla celebrate our Lady of Saint Rosa de Lima. They organize a Free Wrestling match for all the people in the neighborhood. Families gather to cheer the Lucha Libre wrestlers (luchadores). Children jump and play in the ring while waiting for the show to start. People get very passionate about who they like or not, no matter what age. Cristobalina (in the middle) and her family came to cheer a rookie wrestler. The Mexican culture is very family-oriented, and it's always a joy seeing people together and sharing significant moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758170972-D7LZHX7XFULQQN2S0YFF/Cegro.jpeg Photographers | A - C - -Sorrow- Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 -Sorrow- is the reflection of how in certain situationsMexicans come to feel, always fighting against a wall, impossible to get out, sadness, poverty, death.I feel that there is empathy in everyday life, the color red reflects for me the blood of so many innocent people who have disappeared or died without any explanation, and the main character crying or wiping his eyes of sadness.I felt adrenaline when catching the image and a lot of sadness after taking a few steps knowing that there are so many of us who are in that situation in Latin America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641752538103-N2P8H3OLG1VUNOZXWIMG/Alicia+Haber.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, June 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1649787808644-IOKZZBOAIP0WH09VUCI0/chaithra_yadavarajRamini.JPG Photographers | A - C - Moo It NYC Exhibition, 2022 Streets of this living heritage in Badami are an extension of the homes, where the inhabitant's day-to-day activities pan out effortlessly. Seen here is a child, mouthing a toy probably, as a cow walks by casually next to her, and her mother keeps an eye on her. Standing there in the narrow pedestrian street with an impulse to keep moving, I stayed a bit longer until I got a close-up of the cow walking straight toward me to make the picture come together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1672947589086-NZ245ZUGVH54DVWFB78P/anamariaprelipcean01.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This picture was taken during a trip to Lisbon. I was walking in a park and saw this beautiful frame, like a maze, and I knew in my heart I had to do something with these lines. I waited for a few minutes because I saw a child running. I took three or four pictures, and this one was the ONE. From the very first second, I imagined this photo in black and white, just like a movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1672948737267-QSIKJ2B4SVKM9NB15288/amila_balic.jpg Photographers | A - C - Girl India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This photograph is about New York and its people during Covid, I saw sun, light, and a beautiful face below scaffolding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1650292470391-NBAU591IO8T5CRNR22C6/conchadelarosa.jpg Photographers | A - C - Stillness NYC Exhibition, 2022 When one wants to investigate the life around us, I think it is necessary to find a way to document the invisible, the essential. For me, it is necessary to observe daily life from the individuality within the collective, observing each character in a minute and instantaneous way and abstracting it from the crowd. This photograph is part of a series where the characters are in scenes full of people, and I extract small individual scenes that convey stillness. It is a stolen photograph and made with a fixed focal length of 40 mm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673222909457-UPBOPNBPECD7DD5QCZIT/Cinmayi+Radha5.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, June 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679683233421-0QTDYYO67MRNRW4WZBE6/adrianadovha02.jpg Photographers | A - C - Beam Virtual exhibition, 2023 One beautiful morning in August, I was running in a park in Lviv and then I noticed a place where a ray of sunlight was falling very beautifully. I quickly ran home to get my camera, when I returned - I saw a woman doing yoga in this place and I was lucky - it made my day and I got a good photo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679685485796-EURFZRHYJ65ZQPT4OQB9/ananya_das002.jpeg.jpg Photographers | A - C - Life in Contrast Virtual Exhibition, 2023 One fine morning in Delhi, by the banks of Yamuna, a story unfolded the contrast between distinct worlds divided by fate and inheritance. The cold December winds were kind to none, but that morning, two spheres of the society saw the rising sun from different perspectives. A couple on an elevated platform danced to glory while documenting their love before they tied the knot. A woman, below, cleaned her utensils in the cold water, staring at what destiny offers to different people. The sailing boats in the distance signify that life goes on, whether or not one makes the flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679685814201-GBBIOZBVLQIDRW0IP1KE/andrea_swenson_17.jpg Photographers | A - C - Thai Pedicab Virtual Exhibition, 2023 As Bobby, my pedicab driver guided me through Chiang Mai, Thailand, the countenance of King Rama X kept staring down at me. I could not resist the shot. So I leaned back and took it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679688411896-BBGER1NGKFE4VO1H8FEC/Anita+Rundles1.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 This was taken on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I just happened to be passing by and saw people in what appeared to be costume in the pizza shop. I honestly can't remember if it was Halloween or not. But either way I thought what these ladies were wearing was very funny, and managed to get a couple shots of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679696562490-Y7FP24OCXUIL5JZ4H5VZ/annu_esko002.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 The photo was taken at a big market in Osh Kyrgyzstan. I wondered why the model's eyes were covered, I still don't know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679696674010-S11O295ED26WXBSHXMJK/brittakohlboas04.jpg Photographers | A - C - Embarking Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I was late that day as I arrived at the annual Harbour Parade of Hamburg. I hurried through the crowds people to take pictures. This picture is the last one before it started to rain. Lucky me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679697231403-0WSXE6J9BDSLUZDTEIZZ/catherinenaylorleyland1.jpg Photographers | A - C - Mischief Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Magic moments happen and I felt that this was one. The light behind the playing children and the red material make a pictorial effect. It is taken at a fair in Pushkar, November 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679698486429-JQ35X8JU6KJOA8OAZ0LL/cebe_loomis_02.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Along an amber dusted highway in Nevada sits Virginia City, a timeworn mining town clinging to a mile-high mountain peak. This boomtown was home to the Comstock Lode of 1859, the United States’ first major silver ore discovery, and today is the nation’s second-largest national historic landmark, offering an “authentic” 1860s experience that mythologizes histories of the American West. Tailings uses analogue photography (35mm & 120mm), sound art, and personal testimony to unpack how Virginia City’s custom of storytelling and demonstrative celebration of its Western folklore affect how place and identity are rendered, remembered, and endlessly remade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679699447343-DUMGE0IFRI9Y4WHNGJXH/chloe_kerleroux.jpg Photographers | A - C - Father and son. Virtual Exhibition, 2023 During the gypsies Pilgrimage in south of France I saw this gypsy's kid playing along the sea with this tattoo. I wanted to ask permission to his parents for picture and I realised that the father had same tattoo. I asked them if I can take their backs together. It was a peacefull moment just before the intense energy of the procession with a specific cloudy lights. There were so much photographers agressive that I needed a break far from the crowd. I appreciated this moment where I could take the time to create something unique with this sympathic family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682107055419-FITUMNMSHURQZI5N2MIL/Amelia+Burns.jpg Photographers | A - C - Rollers, 2017 Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I made this photo while I was making a series pf photographs documenting the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. I was drawn to this man's hair curlers and matching shirt. I asked if I could photograph him, told him what I was doing, and he obliged. The Fairfax district is a long time Orthodox Jewish area, that in the past 20 years has evolved into a fashion hub of Los Angeles and Hollywood. The mixing of culture, style, and history fascinated me and sparked my interest in photographing there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682107845227-NQF9XVUN5LP52W0PJB9P/Anjali+Singh.jpg Photographers | A - C - The Girl on the Train Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This image was created as a coping mechanism against several hours-long wait and boredom at a train station where my train was running late. I took my camera out to shoot. A while later, a train stops on the platform. I noticed a little girl on the train with her father. With just 2% battery remaining, I had to take the chance. I looked at the father who signaled me to go ahead. The little one smiled at me but looked sternly at the camera. That's when 'The Girl on the Train' was born! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682108271446-T2CO9HX0XXC82HIKQEIW/Annette+Lang.jpg Photographers | A - C - Facetime Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 The photo was taken on the waterfront in Nice. I was drawn to the scene by the detail of the blanket placed under the dog's paws. The man's caring gesture for his four legged friend had moved me. While I was lifting my camera, the dog spotted me and I noticed that both bodies superposed in a striking way taken from a certain angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682108595895-EMM4JPT7HUUH75VEJG55/Barbara_Colbert.jpg Photographers | A - C - Stilts and Shadows Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 While photographing a wedding party on the plaza of Santo Domingo Church in Oaxaca City, Mexico, I spotted two stilt walkers getting ready to join the celebration. As they rose up on their stilts in the late afternoon light, they cast playful shadows on the luminous yellow façade of the church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682108694512-BNJVKIZV2Q4DKA2P1CU1/Candy_Lopesino010.jpg Photographers | A - C - Madrid Street Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 Every year MADO, the great LGBTIQ+ Pride party, is held in the center of the city of Madrid, a great festival to celebrate and show diversity. Spain has one of the most advanced laws in the world on equal rights for this community. The most important central act being the State Demonstration of LGBTIQ+ pride, to which these images belong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682108843516-DF12SEZC9I3LM9GMK2PX/Carin+van+der+Donk.jpg Photographers | A - C - Drumrole Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 The drummers from Fogo Azul leading the 2020 Women's March. About an hour into the march, snow started coming down. January 18th, 2020 - 6th Avenue, NYC - Women's March. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682109385644-49TXTMI2UAOU5J1XPS9M/Catherine+AUZURET.jpg Photographers | A - C - L'ennui Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This was taken the 14th of July in 2022. People were watching the end of the soldiers parade, to see them before they climb into the buses. I was watching the crowd; I sat on the ground and watched what was going on at this level and it was much more interesting. Kids lost in anonymous legs, bored. This made me think how boring most of the adults were when I as a child. And at this precise moment I was growing tired when this adorable out of time little girl offered me this gift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691436483548-C5ME5XYI4I66XR4D2Z1Y/IMG_0983.JPG Photographers | A - C - Against Disappearance Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 As a teacher and a mother I often feel like I have to struggle for my identity. Self-portraits are the way I fight "against disappearance.” I dressed up for a day by myself at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This is my reflection in the lobby of the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691435083455-8I2BLHI9RY2RL2K38XGS/Cat+Belshaw.jpg Photographers | A - C - Pink Shadow Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 In this photo, which is part of a larger project, I use the camera’s ability to focus, reframe, and capture lightness and darkness, form and shape to tell a story about the interconnectedness of people, places, and things in the world’s built and natural environments. Observed in, but extracted from, its original context the shadowed lines of this building in Valle Gran Rey, captured in the perfect light of the Canary Islands, takes on a meaning beyond itself and across geographies, taking the viewer to a place of peace and warmth both part of, and apart from, their own locale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682110082494-KLH545IM071JVGKJUMHU/cristina_garlesteanu.jpg Photographers | A - C - The Escape Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I was walking in the park, on a bridge, and as I looked down I noticed the scene. It seemed like the little baby was trying to escape an almost exhausted grandmother. But the true story is different... The baby's parents were under the bridge, watching him. I only noticed that afterwards. The lady on the grass was enjoying a sunny day in the park, laying on the grass. And that's the beauty behind unknown stories in photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705781895705-8UYPI3XJ6S1A3JO9TF1S/Aishwarya+Rane.jpg Photographers | A - C - Tireless Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 In March 2023, this photograph was clicked in Hampi, India. Hampi is dotted with age-old rock formations and monoliths. Visitors are wonderstruck upon viewing remnants of the past. The immovable boulders symbolize strength and endurance. In a place where visitors are mesmerized by bygones, the woman in the photograph who broke branches with her bare hands personifies the boulders in the present day. The bundled sticks can represent her grievances alongside her dreams. Most importantly, the bundle of sticks merging with the tree underscores how certain women may be disempowered on a socio-economic level, but their spirit cannot be contained. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705782638918-MMWGIM12CH9QRNQETJ8H/Aline+Calmet.jpg Photographers | A - C - Sky is the Limit Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 This photo was taken in 2018 in Valencia. It caught my attention to see the workers assemble the scaffolding with ease and lightness and to see this "air castle" being formed in such a short time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705783554947-RBTME4L2KRCYV5ELZZ9L/Anna-Maria+Schlueter.jpg Photographers | A - C - Blinded by the Light Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I was waiting at a meeting point on a hot day. The woman's long, dark clothing caught my eye. She moved gracefully and lightly, almost floating across the ground towards the dazzling sun. The hand movement reminds me of a ballet dancer. The clothing reminds me of a nun's robe, which contrasts with the bag symbolizing luxury and is interesting on a meta level with the blinding light. I'm glad I was able to capture this fleeting moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705783832908-WWR0M3JAGJ96DDZ61TBU/Asl%C4%B1+G%C3%B6nen+.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 My aim was to take a photo of these two women who look like twins and even dress the same, but when combined with the posters behind, a beautiful composition emerged, and I was really excited to capture it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705784478059-1AP9H3Y0VIRZ2HXZBZ58/Claudia++Bulut.jpg Photographers | A - C - Building a Tower Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 Between Barcelona and Tarragona, on the coast of Spain, there is a tradition where people come together to build human towers. It's a very special sport, because old and young, women and men train three times a week. When they build up, it’s getting quiet, everybody pays attention and helps each other. The concentration is flickering through the room, they rely on each other, hold together, build up and build down together. It's a cohesion which holds them together, giving them the value of belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705863062686-GO7L0EINO71C3U4KYQ83/Mar%C3%ADa+Alejandra+Basald%C3%BAa+P%C3%A9rez.jpg Photographers | A - C - Destello de Luz Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 All my life I have had an obsession with color, so when I saw those colors and the flash of light that made the room paint those tones, my gaze stopped, feeling that emotion that you feel when you think you are in the right place to shoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711734901338-67QNNI11C94MHYQCDVKZ/Adrianne+Ryan.jpg Photographers | A - C - The Birds NYC Exhibition 2024 On a piercingly cold day, an urge prompted me to bring my camera on a dog walk along the Hudson. At the 72nd Street Boat Basin, a lone, elegant figure was feeding the birds amidst the winter gusts. After securing the dogs, I approached, startling the flock into a skyward dance. Capturing this moment led to an unexpected friendship with Teresa, Riverside Park's unsung nurturer, whose daily ritual of care for wildlife is as steadfast as the river itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711802528686-W9YXC28Q9BDR8H46XLKQ/Chela+Crinnion_Edited+image+without+border.jpg Photographers | A - C - Skater, 2022 NYC Exhibition, 2024 I'm a planner by nature, and street photography reminds me to stay open to the unexpected. On a beautiful fall day, I sat down on the ground near the Washington Square Arch, hoping to get some clean shots of the skateboarders who had just set a traffic barrel on its side. But it's New York City, so people kept walking through in every direction. Instead of the sequence I originally intended of a skater going over the barrel, I ended up embracing the chaos, and that resulted in much more interesting images. This frame is my favorite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682109846777-HQKMB2X5XDIB37IQJ9N8/Christa+Joyner+Moody.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I spent my 50th birthday celebrating in NYC. Just switching over to a mirrorless set up, I was hoping that I could lighten my load for travel and street photography. Of course it was raining and cold but I was determined to test out my new gear. I spent the weekend walking all over NYC, making images. This shot was taken in the Flatiron district during rush hour. I wanted to capture a New York City icon and the hustle and bustle in an interesting way and also work with what Mother Nature had thrown at me for my visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1649783732412-5OTLB6JARERCYYVQR3AG/adriennehutchings10.jpg Photographers | A - C - Into the Jungle NYC Exhibition, 2022 The lone business man, juxtaposed in front of the jungle mural. To me, this represented the concrete jungle as well. You can feel his confidence and drive, as he strides across the stark concrete lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722968114616-96Q2M4ZWP9BWUGXEF10I/Avery_White.jpg Photographers | A - C - Mother's Day in New York City Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 Captured on my late night commute on the subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn on Mother's Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722968321302-A7JLNXUCALT7OL2A9BYV/BiancamariaMonticelli.jpg Photographers | A - C - Screaming Pride Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 This picture was taken during Toscana Gay Pride in 2022. I was wandering around looking for a good shot when I saw an interesting crossing of glances between a girl and the beautiful Caravaggio Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679687985651-OV9TW89DVFMNE4IE4CFX/angela_varricchio07_controluce.jpg Photographers | A - C - The Magic of the Connection Between Human and Animals Virtual Exhibition, 2023 The photograph depicts the training of Biancofiore, a young hawk, by a southern Italian farmer passionate about falconry. I started to document the hawk training because fascinated by this old discipline by which humans and animals build a relationship of trust, respect and love. The trainer explained me that hawks are independent souls which need affection, time and trust to be trained. I felt that this was a magic connection between the trainer and the hawk I tried to capture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737559902050-QZRFW692K3DLRGDKTKXC/Aline+Colette.jpg Photographers | A - C - Reform Brazil Exhibition, 2025 Passing in front of MASP (São Paulo Art Museum), which was under renovation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737561486783-4CXW9ADI1JMEL6MY4QAW/Ana+Ciffoni.jpg Photographers | A - C - Vestidos Coloridos Brazil Exhibition, 2025 Traditional Brazilian folk party dresses for sale. The scene caught my attention due to the contrast of light and shadow, as well as the intensity of the colors. The photo was taken in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737562734818-8Z5FDCSWASC3LY78U3X5/Barbara+Beeman+horizontal.jpg Photographers | A - C - New York City Awaits Brazil Exhibition, 2025 I knew when I saw her beautiful face that I had to capture her image and she posed for me with an expression of hope and happiness that I recognized her beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737566336594-HR9D8M70EMCR4DLCM5BY/C.+Kemp.jpg Photographers | A - C - Lean Back Brazil Exhibition, 2025 As a photographer inspired by the work of Martin Parr, I enjoy taking photos at tourist attractions and of the people who visit them. Certain attractions are associated with "rituals" or poses that people recreate while visiting, and I am endlessly fascinated and entertained by watching these scenes unfold. While at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, I wanted to capture both the sense of chaos and the repetition of movement on constant display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737566732905-HOSRBLAVK4PPNWJ5CBFD/Carolina+Freitas+horizontal.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Brazil Exhibition, 2025 This picture is part of a series called "Impresiones,” meant to depict how we exist through the moments and places we pass by. I wrote a small text about it: "Existo momentaneamente. Me imprimo distinto en cada momento que pasa, persona que conozco, lugar que habito. Por eso, me concretizo en las huellas que dejo, en tiempos congelados. Son impresiones de mi yo actual, materializaciones de mi consciencia. Pruebas efímeras de mi existencia.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737574873555-AVAH5TQXDMQPWDWP2NYI/Raberanto+Aina+Zo.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Brazil Exhibition, 2025 I took this photo during a photographic residency organized by the Alliance Française de Diego Suarez in the north of Madagascar in Octobre 2023. “Galerie à Ciel Ouvert” our traveling photography project was selected to take part in this residency. I was in the La Dordogne district, renowned for its dhow (wooden boat) making. I like the atmosphere of the area, very calm with the sound of the sea. As I walked around the neighborhood, I noticed the children playing and the dog relaxing. I like this image because it exudes a certain serenity, the joy of living and innocence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711737170095-BXV7VM5Z97SKUOVF96OI/Agnes+Burger.jpg Photographers | A - C - Silent Rebels NYC Exhibition 2024 Tango dancers on the street, London 2023. Just one moment, but miles away… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722951015789-BV0Y9NINEP8O2RQNX41S/Alexa_Van_de_Walle-1.jpg Photographers | A - C - Stay Cool, Coney Island Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 On a hot summer day in New York, I rode a crowded subway in a car that had no air conditioning and empty seats. As we approached Coney Island, only a few people remained, including this woman. With the amusement park in the background, she opened the fan as if on cue. I crouched next to her and shot a few frames. When I saw that the afternoon light radiated on her face and the rides and her fan lined up perfectly with the windows and the back of the her hand, I knew I had a special image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705782357752-4V7AUJFMYZ7D72V2Y24K/Alice+Chapman.jpg Photographers | A - C - At King's Parade Corner Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 With my back to a local landmark, I observed the crowd on a busy street corner in Cambridge. Cars pass slowly here as tourists often stand in the road to take photos. I noticed the woman in the car, passing through the light, and felt drawn to her expression. I felt that it captured something of the common stress of crowded spaces. I remember feeling excitement and freedom to be in the same place with my camera. The act of photography can change our sense of self in a space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742149295841-W23A047YJMQEYCH25X3Y/amy_gaskin_5mb.jpg Photographers | A - C - The Spirit of Marilyn Monroe NYC Exhibition, 2025 This image is from my ongoing series, “The Legacy of Marilyn Monroe.” During the COVID-19 pandemic, I happened upon Monroe’s crypt, where I discovered wet lipstick marks at a time when most of the world was standing six feet apart. Curious, I began to interview and photograph her devotees, discovering that Marilyn is a symbol of hope for many. The 26-foot tall sculpture, “Forever Marilyn,” is being sprayed during its installation in Palm Springs. There is optimism that the sculpture will help revive the city’s lagging tourist economy, which has been decimated by the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742150334354-ZHGVW6DQQ8M7FBN2ALB2/Andrea+Wenglowskyj.jpg Photographers | A - C - Emily in Riverside NYC Exhibition, 2025 I met Emily in the Riverside neighborhood of Buffalo, NY. She showed me the tattoo on her arm of her grandmother's house when it was yellow and when she spent so much of her childhood there. We found the house again, and it is now painted blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682107944969-B4QJTFRC5SJFMPOUC6V9/ANNA+BIRET.jpg Photographers | A - C - In The World of Dreams Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 On a street in Manila, between two street stalls, I noticed this girl sitting on the step of a closed shop, she was hiding behind her balloon, as if she wanted to transfer it to real life, or to transport herself into the world of dreams. A very beautiful funny situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742150782581-HKXKRMUJVP3H1YIOGLEC/AnnaJelowicka.jpg Photographers | A - C - Little Feet on the Subway NYC Exhibition, 2025 The picture was taken during my short trip to Japan in 2024. Looking for inspiration before the trip, I studied books and poems on the role of women in Japanese society, now and in the past. I tried to take images: portraits, gestures, body language, and eye expressions that would illustrate those readings. This one represents young woman, self-assured and independent: "For a time the mountains have been asleep, But long ago, they danced with fire. (…) All the sleeping women Are now awake and moving. " “The Day the Mountains Move” by Yosano Akiko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742151340203-YKRUPZ4BBB2HO0JJQT9J/ariannasperanza.jpg Photographers | A - C - I'll Be Your Mirror NYC Exhibition, 2025 Porta Portese market is one of my favorite places in Rome, a place of countless faces and stories, rich in history and brimming with stories to tell. That day, wandering aimlessly among the stalls, I came across one selling vintage cameras, old newspapers, and antique paintings. There, the captivating face of a young woman appeared reflected within the circle of a mirror, instantly drawing my eye. I couldn’t let the moment slip away! Mirrors, like Alice in Wonderland, are more than just reflections of reality. They are an endless source of imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609613369415-2YNTZM5FQVON4M40LYNM/belengarciaalcat.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2020 I took this image, because I like moments when several stories intersect, and, seeing this view from afar, I believed this could be one of them. I ran towards this spot, taking care to keep well away from the ox. Nobody payed me any attention as I shot several frames. A boat full of tourists was also present and unavoidable near the middle of my frame. But then, their story also intersected with those of the others, and mine, if only for a couple of minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742156311972-C66WEOQQEY1I8CQRASOS/Carol+Hamcke-Onstwedder.jpg Photographers | A - C - Woman Walking NYC Exhibition, 2025 I love taking photos with texture. Wandering around Little India in Singapore, I found myself looking through the plastic curtain of a textile stall with people walking by. I loved the ethereal texture the plastic sheet created over the person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742158306263-9D6PNSSKCVJ4MC1U4Z5U/chloe_hall.jpg Photographers | A - C - Fragmentation NYC Exhibition, 2025 This image is part of a series exploring loneliness in the city. People live in close physical proximity yet lack of connection and fragmentation permeate cities and the human condition. Ordered geometric compositions provide a contrasting backdrop to the emotion conveyed by the subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742158744634-SBU95PKJ2KBABWQW967N/ChristinaSantucci_Larger.jpg Photographers | A - C - Shark NYC Exhibition, 2025 I spotted him from a distance as he drove and then pushed his car along the Rockaway boardwalk as part of a festival. The moment felt beautifully surreal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742593737256-TCLT81UR6SW2NX8PB767/alicia_basulto.jpg Photographers | A - C - Venus Under Surveillance NYC Exhibition, 2025 Venus cannot escape the gaze. From the windows, statues of motionless men watch her in silence, stone witnesses who never look away. In the garden, a presence lingers beside her, another gaze grazes her. And beyond, the camera, ever present, fixes the instant in her eternal memory. But Venus does not flinch. Only her presence, caught between the vigilance of the sculpted, the living, and the mechanical. Venus, 1928 – Statue by Aristide Maillol, Tuileries Garden, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609615865560-PEP94I4ODCMN6HJYZ03I/CarolDronsfield.jpg Photographers | A - C - Chasing Seagulls NYC Exhibition, 2020 I loved seeing the simple happiness of city children at Coney Island. Their joy brought me joy and a reminder that some pleasures endure, even in difficult times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742406674614-K2C953Q3V3E76XGN47WK/Chantelle+Flores+-+A+Nose+for+Curiousity.jpg Photographers | A - C - A Nose for Curiosity NYC Exhibition, 2025 Caught in the act of pure innocence: unfiltered and universally understood. A young girl's simple act of curiosity evokes a reminder of those instances of exploration and discovery. In the timeless setting of Bena Village on Flores Island, Indonesia, a young girl, stands amidst the backdrop of her ancestral home, her attention entirely absorbed in the universal, yet often private, act of exploration with a finger up her nose. While capturing a fleeting moment, it speaks volumes about the universality of childhood and the purity of moments unspoiled by self-awareness, inviting viewers to reminisce about their moments of innocent exploration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641762389833-073GCC7WJBC8HM7IHL33/Ana+Paula+Di+Berardo.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705781503591-NO107TH7UOP4XSRFPGCR/Abigail+Ekue.jpg Photographers | A - C - Reflecting Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 What I saw when I took this photo is the familiar far-away gaze many NY commuters are sometimes lucky to have. For a few moments, we can forget the day or replay moments. This wasn't a moment of being in a rush to get anywhere. The bright colors of the woman's hair and shirt repeat elements in her reflection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742594015932-7209LWNQMEGVEH8BPX53/Breana+Mazzagatte.jpg Photographers | A - C - Warm Dirt NYC Exhibition, 2025 Grief is a quiet kind of isolation, one that lingers even in the presence of others. It’s the aching effort of trying to show up, to listen, to care, when time itself feels suspended. You hear the words of a friend, their life continuing, their worries tangible and real, but they feel like they belong to a world you no longer inhabit. I sat with her, waiting for the morgue to call and let me know when his remains would be released. With a cocktail and a brave face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755707429134-V2BKQHLSC813BTKZFYUY/WSP2026ArtistResidencyRunnerUpAnastasiaRudenkoCollage-1.jpg Photographers | A - C - 2026 Artist Residency, 2nd Runner Up Artist Statement I am a social documentary photographer, and capturing people has always been at the heart of my work. Over many years, I have photographed in challenging and intimate environments, such as psychiatric institutions and prisons, and I even had the opportunity to photograph political figures. I have also accompanied the police on assignments, which has given me valuable experience working in difficult and uncomfortable conditions, all of which taught me to stay calm, observant, and sensitive to complex, often hidden human stories that raise important social and class issues. The photographs presented in my application are part of my “Visual Dictionary” project, a contemporary visual guide to life in Russia. In this series, I document real scenes, phenomena, and images of everyday life to visually interpret and explain complex social realities. As a social documentary photographer, people, their stories, and the intricate forces shaping their lives have always been at the heart of my work. Through “Visual Dictionary,” I have developed an approach that blends the search for metaphor, visual depth, and a keen eye for the absurd or poetic in everyday street moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679686996764-UW7SOLNHAJXK99U8OHV7/andrea_misurova01.jpg Photographers | A - C - Lipstick Attack Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I took this image on a busy shopping street in Paris, France, when I realized that the woman looks as though she is being attacked by the imaginary lipsticks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682106503678-VYZC0IYN7REWHJNOX9PO/Alexandra+Avlonitis.jpg Photographers | A - C Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I arrived in Times Square in NYC one afternoon for a day of photographing around town when I spotted this woman in her stylish, but unusual, jumpsuit standing directly in front of the NYC subway. A happy coincidence to see the matching patterns. And to be framed by two yellow taxis was the icing on the cake. I knew I was off to a good start. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770101933047-BYH6PWBGAVZOMF0EZLC6/alexandra_thannhaeuser.jpg Photographers | A - C - Versions of Myself NYC Exhibition, 2026 A fleeting moment where reality and motion blur merge into a layered narrative. A woman, lost in her music, stands still while the city rushes past. In the moving tram, two faces emerge - blurred, distorted, almost ghostly. Are they strangers, or reflections of who she once was, who she could become? To me this photo captures the interplay of identity, time, and the ever-shifting versions of ourselves that exist in motion and stillness alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682107501542-TC0ULLWKKL5NGIT8PF6N/andreatorreiOriginal.jpg Photographers | A - C - After the Ball Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 It is not easy to seize that split second magic when everything fits together to make a good photo. It takes a good dose of passion but also perseverance and, eventually, with patience comes the reward. The photo was made in Cape Coast, Ghana. A group of young adults was playing with a ball on the street. A photography session I very much enjoyed. It was a pleasure to have spent some time with them. A nice memory that I am glad to share with you here. Cape Coast - Ghana 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770104024192-6JF6NJFS5VZWMCK63JPT/anita_szirbek.jpg Photographers | A - C - Selfie in the Rain NYC Exhibition, 2026 I made this photograph on the street during Milan Fashion Week, outside the venues, where the spectacle on the street has become as significant as the shows themselves. What caught my attention was the persistence of image-making despite the rain. Fashion magazines are used as improvised shelter, while one person holds up a phone to take a selfie. The photograph observes how documenting one’s presence and being visible can matter as much as actually being there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711741909471-HDWIUY02QU82N0EZ62EM/araceli_hernandez.jpg Photographers | A - C - A Man on Display NYC Exhibition, 2024 That day I was feeling sad about the end of a relationship. Then I into that person. It was unfortunate but enlightening. I realized I had made the best decision possible, but it still hurt. To get out of that state, I took my phone and focused on the colorful display and reflections. “A man on display” was born to continuously remind me that vulnerability is ok and that sometimes the flowers you see on a person are a reflection of yourself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641752690397-A6TL5T4N4RT4KLNWU882/Arja+Heinonen.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1565570095181-KVAK41ZOOH5CPSK4UU2A/Betty+Goh.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Street Photography Festival, 2019 Airport at 3.58pm….It was 3.58pm at the departure area of London Heathrow airport. The afternoon sun was shining mercilessly. This silhouette behind the glass panel captured my attention while I was making my way for check in. I found this scene so beautiful and relatable that it made me paused my footsteps to capture this fleeting feeling. There was an air of mystery and desolation surrounding this fading silhouette. Was it just me, or was she feeling sad about departing from her loved ones too? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641762525102-69ZI233Q0CYIFHH8ISJ0/Brigit+Neiser.jpeg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641755894167-4POTW27S41321HBTXOD8/carenwinnall_5_of_10.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 I wander and look for something that catches my eye. I remember walking around Bryant Park and noticing the arrangement of these three women, leaning on each other, shoeless, sprawled out to rest. I quickly composed the shot before they moved or became aware of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1581616423671-F4OYGTJSD8EFX50LWADL/carmen_violichgoodin.jpg Photographers | A - C - San Francisco, 2019 NYC Exhibition, 2019 It was late winter and the sky was a monochromatic grey. I had brought Sophia, my eight year old grand daughter to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. We were headed to the permanent collection, an excellent place to introduce art history to a young mind. At the entry we found we had the entire neoclassical courtyard to ourselves. We walked down the northern colonnade when suddenly a woman in a black coat hurried by. I pulled out my camera, interested in the stark contrast between the rhythm of columns and the flight of the woman. Sophia then asked me why I am always taking pictures. Before I could answer, I not only had a picture that interested me, one with strong structural elements balanced with movement, perspective and scale but I had the opportunity to have a talk with Sophia about seeing and framing our visual world. The camera, I told her nurtures our imagination; it empowers us to see light, form and color in new ways. It makes us storytellers and inspires us to find meaning and beauty where and when it’s least expected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546931047437-NFT2JFXQLOAZFJU8A1OA/catherinematthys.jpg Photographers | A - C - The Real Thing NYC Exhibition, 2018 PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 Indian Photo Festival, 2020 I love to find intriguing and unexpected moments in the everyday, wherever in the world I may be. This was certainly one of those. Growing up with the iconic Coca Cola red and vibrant advertising brand, the familiarity and attraction was still with me when I happened across this photoshoot in Fez, Morocco. The centuries old character of Morocco provided the backdrop for this juxtaposition of East meets West. The fabulous character, perfectly styled, provided the ‘quirk’ to make this scene particularly surreal. I love to wonder about what history may lay behind the red painted roller door too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682109652147-YZR1R9U8ULXKB34KZ7N1/Charlotte+Stone.jpg Photographers | A - C - Ballet Dreams Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This image is meaningful to me, as it was taken soon after a near-fatal emergency surgery. While recuperating, I watched a group of ballet dancers rehearsing outside. This little girl was entranced and kept walking back and forth with her lollipop watching them intently. At the end, her father brought her up to the stage to meet them, and I wondered if she, too, was having a life-changing moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1572894335624-PSJIT1SIFJ1IPNL9PG3R/Christelle_Enquist.jpg Photographers | A - C - War Heroes Brussels Street Photography, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682107281601-TBEDIQLYG43MSMEB1PUV/Amy+Horowitz.jpg Photographers | A - C - Oscar Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 “Don’t Smile” Oscar (2/19/2023) What propels me to ask, “Can I take your portrait?” is a warmth I sense, something soft underneath the shell. Taking these portraits, I get inside, even if only for a short while. Interacting with these individuals, with their youthful energy, I find myself both stimulated and grounded. One of the more interesting things I’ve found is how quickly a connection can be formed between two strangers, with the camera’s lens serving as a conduit. I direct people by saying “Look into my eyes, and whatever you do, don’t smile.” This oddly puts them at ease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1775126302885-F6OGNKF38EGEU70K851A/Adele+Chan.jpg Photographers | A - C - Men sleeping outside the library SPAIN EXHIBITION, MAY 2026 I was walking outside the Zikawei Library in Shanghai and came across these men sleeping. It was coincidental and pretty funny that they were napping in the exact same position, so I took a quick photo with the phone I had on me — the vivo X300 Pro. If you look closely to the left of the pillar, there's a slight reflection of me in the glass taking the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705782917596-IFXUWLL2WZYUOAH3MCGF/Amelia+Sagone+Rattew.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 On September 9th 2023, I participated in the #24HourProject, my first. Participants agree to take and post photos hourly for 24 hours; I participated for five. I became a “photographer for social change” contributing to raising awareness and funds for @camerasforgirls, a Canadian-based charity whose mission is to teach photography to African girls allowing them to become visual story tellers and journalists. As I walked through the streets of New York in search of material to post on the go, I spotted a beautiful woman. I darted in her direction. Shortly after, she was on my Instagram feed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679686012573-XKS1TACRFVKBIFP1DOVB/andrea.klausnerupdated.jpg Photographers | A - C - Despair and Hope Virtual Exhibition, 2023 This photo is from my pre-pandemic trip to Egypt in late 2019. As I walked past this alleyway, I saw these two young men turning into the light, with an elderly woman off to the side covering her face. I framed it to get them all in the shot. When I got home—before Covid-19 became part of our collective consciousness—I called the photo “Despair and Hope,” not realizing at the time just how apt that title would become: first the worldwide despair of this unrelenting virus, followed some months later by the hope that a vaccine would soon end it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722953164073-TXFETZF3UQ18I3K274QT/Bego+Amar%C3%A9.jpg Photographers | A - C - Untitled Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 I was walking Berlin, when I noticed a spot with nice colors, and right behind, a lady in a very elegant dress, sitting behind a fan, looking at her mobile phone. I approached quietly, with time enough to make this picture. It was like photographing Audrey Hepburn on a movie break. I just loved her outfit and those fan colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682108482063-9Q0U1SEMJ3EWOGUDALTR/B+Jane+Levine.jpg Photographers | A - C - Orange Red Glove Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 New York’s 5th Avenue is transformed during the winter season by holiday decorations. Local residents and tourists flock to the street to embrace the festive mood. One afternoon I noticed this tall well-dressed man in vintage white fur and green glasses viewing the holiday windows at Saks Fifth Avenue department store. I waited for him to approach a spot where he was illuminated by the late afternoon light and that is when I made this image. The sunlight highlighted his elegance and revealed his left hand covered in a red orange glove holding his jacket closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682109923806-YYFK0BTZPN2U5BXNX5U6/Colleen_01_E.jpg Photographers | A - C - Old Hats Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 About a year ago, on a pleasant sunny day, I was walking around 5th Avenue in NYC. I spotted this Madmen-esque group briskly walking near Rockefeller Center. They looked out of place with the men were wearing fedoras and what appeared to be vintage clothing - all faces covered in the same masks. I had no idea where they came from, nor where they were going. I immediately began to follow, making sure to stay ahead of them. I managed to take several photos before they disappeared into a building lobby. https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/artist-residency-nyc daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1552621328161-EECQVG7M7UK7CHYY5RI8/Artspace1.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1565636799502-5DJL2PM0FF5XNS6CFRNH/Artspace1.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1716474151956-2V10131JF7NZJN2XC9HG/image-asset.jpeg Artist Residency - Valérie Six https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1716474576494-CNVIG66FB51YO9DLXY08/IMG_1773+2.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1736290149169-T07K2S3BV9MO1OBIF0MT/IMG_2058.jpg Artist Residency - Artist Residency Winner 2025: Sehin Tewabe Artist Statement: Photography is my way of capturing and sharing how I see the world. Street photography fascinates me, because it captures real, unposed moments of everyday life. These candid images, illuminated by natural light and framed by the city’s movement, allow me to document the true essence of my community. I love that street photography is spontaneous and honest—often, my subjects are unaware of my camera, allowing me to capture their genuine experiences and emotions. Photography helps me express what I find difficult to say in words. Through my street photography, I tell stories with a single image. My work focuses on people, especially women and the interplay of light and shadow, capturing the timeless charm of everyday life. Each photo is like a piece of history, preserving the spirit of neighborhoods and the people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My photography reflects the stories of daily life, capturing those moments that define a community. Sehin Tewabe is a 27-year-old professional photographer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A self-taught artist with a background in accounting, Sehin has always had a natural passion for photography. Growing up in a large family, she was surrounded by joyous moments that she felt needed to be preserved. This desire to capture the beauty of everyday life led her to pick up a camera and turn fleeting moments into lasting memories, deepening her love for photography in the process. Photo by Ambient Teshone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755701963404-WYTECC98S5UT1DSUAMIW/hiroko_hirota_01.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755716161580-8QQI2ZJMK59KY6PLJ2AX/Sally_Coggle_01.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1736005505637-GM1H0S9JH88XKJDS4KMH/Ana+Munoz+Collage.jpg Artist Residency - Ana Joaquina Munoz de la Concha: Untitled Artist Statement: Since childhood, I’ve been fascinated with the concept of communities. With the richness and diversity that manifests at every corner of the world, regardless of beliefs, ideology, politics, and borders. Communities, despite the overtake of a mainstream culture, manage to keep themselves authentic through the characters that inhabit these spaces, these streets. Photography has been my language of choice to capture and share the beauty of diversity. Through my work, I’ve come to realize that we make sense of our surroundings by the sign of human life that we can identity within them. With my camera, I choose to capture the stories of characters from very different backgrounds that can turn the frame into a whole world. I’ve been lucky enough to grow up in one of the most diverse countries of the world. Mexico is a country with too many sides, an hispanic and indigenous heritage that manages to survive despite the inevitable influences of mainstream western culture. The survival of these Pilars of the Mexican identity have become an essential part of my photography. In every new encounter, I find a richness that cannot be replicated or staged. I find truth. It’s hard not to feel like an outsider when you are dedicating all your efforts to document authentically the life of others. But what I have found is a world full of gratitude and openness that feels like an immense sense of pride and responsibility when representing their cultures. What I hope to achieve is that a single picture can tell a story that creates an emotional bond beyond the limits of the frame in spite of of what’s being portrayed in it. Ana Joaquina Munoz de la Concha is a Mexican photographer from Puebla. For years, she has focused her career around the cultural richness and diversity of Mexico, specifically in how these factors make themselves present within the daily life of the characters involved that inhabit unique spaces intrinsically attached to their communities, traditions, activities and circumstances across different parts of the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755718658737-7YXT3ALCTUST5HZKD2YT/Elena+Garibaldi+Collage.jpg Artist Residency - Elena Garibaldi: My Journey in Munich IG: @garibbb Artist Statement: My work explores the contrasts and quiet rhythms of urban life. Through strong color, clean lines, and layered compositions, I focus on moments where stillness and motion intersect, where people, architecture, and atmosphere shape the soul of the city. This series is a tribute to myself, to my vision, and to the city that has shaped me. These photos were taken in Munich, the city I moved to in 2020 for what was meant to be just a one-month photographry workshop. But something shifted. I stayed, and that decision changed my life. Over the years, Munich has become my creative ground. A city that may seem quiet and reserved at first glance, alomost too polished or bourgeois, but which, when observed closely, reveals a kind of unexpected energy and theatricality. That contrast is exactly what I love: the calmness of a structured place interrupted by moments of spontaneity, humor, and beauty. I work in both color and balck-and-white, depending on the emotional quality I want to evoke: in color, I tend toward soft saturation with a cinematic, almost analog mood. The tones are in often natural but subtly warm or nostalgic, reinforcing a quiet intimacy. In black and white, my images become more graphic and contrast driven, emphasizing form and gesture over context, often transforming mundane settings into dramatic stage-like spaces. Each photo is built on observations of subtle interactions, fleeting gestures, and how people inhabit the architecture around them. I don’t intervene or direct; I wait. I look for visual tension, a pause in motion, a shadow cast at just the right angle, or an unexpected gesture in a predictable space. These images represent a process of growth, discovery, and trust in myself. They tell the story of someone who stayed and chose to see. And they are also a quiet thank you to the city that welcomed me, challenged me, and helped me become who I am. BIO: Elena Garibaldi is an Italian street photographer based in Munich. Originally from Comiglia, a small village in Cinque Terre, she moved to Milan in the 2016 to pursue a BA in Languages and Communication. In 2020, she relocated to Munich to attend a photography internship at Officina Fotografica, where she assisted photographer Alessandro Piazza and took her first steps into the world of street photography and visual storytelling. Before settling into her current role, Elena experienced Munich through various jobs, including working as a sales assistant at Viktualienmarkt and working as an assistant direcetor in two local theaters. These diverse rolds enriched her understanding of the city and its culture. Since then, Munich has become both her home and a place of artistic growth. Alongside her creative pursuits, Elena works in marketing and commnication for a German transportaion company based in the city. Largely self taught, her photography explores the poetry of everyday life, often guided by instinct, light, and a curiosity for human presence in urban spaces. She is also passionate about community and has founded a local street photography group in Munich to foster connection and creative exchange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1577907830438-NA86R8HQ0I2UF2E5WB2D/ValerieSIX_raw-3650.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1577907858622-L1PQZCKTQENSF6TP6FH0/ValerieSIX_raw-6360.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/eb4181a7-3da5-4ed8-a398-ae09ed1749e9/WSP+ARTIST+RESIDENCY+CALL Artist Residency - NEW YORK CITY APRIL 6-21, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1555792858049-PQ0YNP5RYJVFRWZW21MY/IMG_8071.JPG Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1555792849124-E4LT570KKEHQBEVPTLVS/IMG_8075.JPG Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1555792831384-IFH2JJZE6N7ZCWQN2175/IMG_8070.JPG Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1555792859978-5IA5OBHZNS61QV9KE2EX/residence.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/4db22196-db6f-4be9-bf91-103e939665f3/WSP+Photo+Festival+2025+by+Malvina+Battiston+0183.jpg Artist Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/d379914a-3398-43a9-a02d-f3950fadbe8f/Screen+Shot+2024-07-08+at+4.16.17+PM.png Artist Residency - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/39129e0f-b2ac-40f0-8faa-f22d417a0b17/Sehin+Tewabe Artist Residency - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1716475865235-V8EMQ9YPTN2RP1UA085U/IMG_1773+copy.jpg Artist Residency - Make it stand out DEBRANI DAS, 2020 ARTIST RESIDENCY WINNER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1716475156410-59SZPGBA38W8I1UABOKC/03CA38B0-E8C4-4C48-8700-80352CA9D287.JPG Artist Residency - Make it stand out VALERIE SIX, 2019 ARTIST RESIDENCY WINNER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1552621209619-FUAXE6TK4U4TM18CYMVU/womenstreetphotographers.jpg Artist Residency The title wall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546821975333-P3ETEDSI10IIZ4GWCLR4/IMG_1413.jpg Artist Residency Ground floor gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546821761544-2RND9EZA4YMGQS5J1VWR/WSP-1-11.jpg Artist Residency Lower level of the gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1552621328161-EECQVG7M7UK7CHYY5RI8/Artspace1.jpg Artist Residency Exterior of Artspace PS109 and the entrance to the galleries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1535744080523-OIE1QLHJKAIVTISCHJW5/PS109_logo.jpg Artist Residency https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/photographers-iii daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595959563256-IB5YHKA6J6TINZ55F3AF/katarzyna_krzyzanowska002.jpg Photographers | I - L https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1648955222178-1KV5KSGU2A8SGTMURENF/016-LynnetteBlanche.jpg Photographers | I - L https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651588454476-Z1XQ5KY1T9G50HP7YE5W/isabelmiranda.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2022 This photo was taken during one of my photo walks in downtown Boston. When I photograph, I am drawn to reflections and color. When photographing a reflection, I feel as though I am not photographing the subject directly in front of me but rather depicting a surreal world where multiple layers, colors, and textures come together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609779565328-J351E44KP2THEQN4MGMP/jana_estocinova.jpg Photographers | I - L - Happy NYC Exhibition, 2020 People sitting on the bench. Each of them is immersed in his or her inner world, their own life story. Different faces of ‘happiness’ contrast with fashion mannequins, consumer society ‘happiness’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651763062064-PUTSZA6RKEIJ1FNU6W56/Kerry_Faulkner.jpg Photographers | I - L - Just to Play NYC Exhibition, 2022 In Australia we hold our sporting heroes up like Gods, worshipping footballers and cricketers for their great athletic feats. But these young people are not part of any team or winning medals. They simply go to this jetty, south of Perth in Western Australia, to play. This image and others in the series is a celebration of their athleticism, bravery, camaraderie, sporting spirit, and prowess without the need for teams or trophies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652205269536-DHYYVXHPCB0ETCPVPN3B/Jill_Waterman_New_Years_Eve_2002_Miami_Beach_Doorman.jpg Photographers | I - L - Doorman NYC Exhibition, 2022 New Year’s Eve, Miami Beach, 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673024934280-SG1ZE66WQUOYS4R4HBPW/justine_manesh.jpg Photographers | I - L - Children in Muslim Quarter, Jerusalem India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 I met these children as I was wandering through the streets of the old city in Jerusalem. I’ve found that once children see a camera, they are both curious and excited, wanting to be photographed. I spent some time with them, photographing and playing with them, until this moment quickly happened. What I have understood throughout the years is that children will always be a sign of hope, of resilience and of joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673112027042-HBRSB09ZF3UM0DSVKEN0/krishna_goswami.jpg Photographers | I - L - Towards Incongruity Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 The weird juxtaposition of the 'headless' Saraswati and the 'horse-headed' human figure is an everyday commentary on the human drama being played around us. Devi Saraswati symbolises knowledge, speech, eloquence, music, and the experience of the Absolute Truth. Many times we make strange and shocking choices; the harmonious being replaced by the bluntly disturbing actions like that of the horse-headed human figure. I was emotionally a little distraught on seeing the final image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609784675654-SV0OG4K9DPEN5NRVIT9X/lopamudratalukdar+%281%29.jpg Photographers | I - L - Rebirth NYC Exhibition, 2020 “Diksha” forms a part of the initiation ceremony, where thousands of sadhus perform rituals to become naga sadhus. The idea is to give up all desire, possessions, duties, and family ties, including one’s sense of body and being. A rebirth of sorts is pursued in order to bring the purity of thought and action. Everything but the soul dies, and the soul is seen through a person’s eyes. This image is part of my longterm project, “Faith.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673222573131-DS3ZM9BVQGMA05A5R785/lara_kantardjian.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679788241394-9V0C9DIDNSDYRWB42X5O/jill_maguire_02.jpg Photographers | I - L - The Fair Lair Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Strange creatures roam the Washington State Fairgrounds every summer. It's magical to photograph kids who discover where the animals rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682112862131-TUXIS7TAGL24WKCO1OY5/JoannaMadlochSharp.jpg Photographers | I - L - The Gaze Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This is a candid street photo taken in July 2022 near Wall Street Bull statue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682113608725-L39G513HF36BWCNOZKYQ/Laraib+Irshad.jpg Photographers | I - L - The Protector Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I had just gotten into the train when I saw a little boy wiping away his tears. I looked over and his Grandfather was holding his hand and consoling him. He looked up at his Grandfather and smiled. I took this photo to remind myself that we all need a protector. Whether a Mother, Father, Grandparent, Guardian, Friend, everyone needs that someone who they can have a shoulder to cry on. Share their happiness, their sadness. This photo is a representation of Love, and of warmth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682114241885-X2CKK9G53IYILOINC1HY/Laura+Allegri.jpg Photographers | I - L - Elicoidale Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 The impressive staircase of The Antinori nel Chianti Classico winery, Florence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682114558521-625X4MGU007MVNYX59ZO/Linda+Hacker.jpg Photographers | I - L - Early Spring Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I was walking to the subway and noticed a delivery truck across the street. I love to explore the possibility of reflections in delivery trucks so I crossed over and waited for an interesting group of people to pass by. As they did, I tried a number of angles and possibilities till I found one that I felt captured the mood of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682114730449-2NXDP64FBUIOJ3C0KSMQ/lynnekaplan_wsp_nyc2023.jpg Photographers | I - L - The Bride of Cousin Itt Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I’m often attracted to scenes with quirkiness and humor. So when I spotted this little creature in a butterfly-adorned tulle dress, I immediately thought Cousin Itt from the Addam’s Family had found his match. This must be their wedding day! I then noticed the way her stylish figure was framed by textures, shapes and lines on the ground that added a graphic element to the image. I feel very fortunate because not many people have the opportunity to shoot a bridal portrait of the new Mrs. Itt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758964513-REIWJLZ38C3YO9PHIFPY/Jimena+Lascurain.jpeg Photographers | I - L - Pet Insurance Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 I took this photograph on an afternoon walk in a then unknown-to-me neighborhood in Brooklyn. I was surprised by those two fancy, huge cats that were looking at me as if saying, “Don't you dare come inside,” juxtaposed to the barbers who were laughing and not paying attention to the window. I also liked the illusion effect where you can't tell where some of these people are in space because of the play of images in mirrors and reflective surfaces. The title comes from the reflection of an LED sign in the middle of the frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691420416655-27KXWL1MHZGAI0Q6S6TZ/Liz+Macro_.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I was sitting at a table in Manhattan when I noticed how much and how quickly everything moved around me. I had an interesting view of a crosswalk where I could capture this movement. I waited for a cab to pass and then took this photo. In my photography, I try to visualize how I experience being on the street. I am mostly alone while surrounded by strangers. My experiences are not filled with warm interactions, but neither loneliness or sadness. This photo portrays the movement of the city but also the honesty of people independently living their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1565573484657-FE04TWMVSFOKWZKEIWUH/Lydia+Ho.jpg Photographers | I - L - I Dream Of Hong Kong Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2019 It was a rainy evening in Hong Kong. While on the tram, I looked out the window and saw the streets filled with beautiful neon lights. It was like a colourful, fantastic dream world to me. So I took my camera and sought to capture the dream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705859844148-DL6EWNOQQJHG61KA8JEI/Isabel+Mombaerts.jpg Photographers | I - L - Julio Virtual Exhibition, 2023 The fascination with what makes Cuba uniquely Cuban—the explosion of colors and vibrancy—is explored during a journey spanning several weeks. How do the inhabitants of this island experience a silenced isolation? Through 'Julio,' I attempted to capture the delicate line between life and survival, one that is trodden upon every day with the utmost care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705860274990-M41T3WXV0OVQ3D9A98QK/Juleah+Claar.jpg Photographers | I - L - Streaking Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 This photo was taken on a rainy evening in Zurich. My favorite shots are usually those captured in bad weather. I love umbrellas and hats and coats… all the props are built in to the shot! In this case, I was practicing the intentional camera movement technique. Walking through an alley with dark sides and a bright center, I saw a lady with long hair, an umbrella, and a khaki jacket flowing behind her. I aimed the camera, set with a slower shutter speed, and pulled up to create the streaky abstract feel, mirroring the effect of the falling rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1596563102060-Z3VU2GA28KE0XGGCOJIY/laura_pierangeli_01.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705860827268-30ISFMFARV4RX4HEBC4N/Karin+Majoka.jpg Photographers | I - L - Smile Despite the Rain Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I took this image right when the weather shifted from sunny skies to heavy rain. While most people started running to escape from the rain, the woman in the hidschāb not only stayed calm but also had a smile on her face despite the rain. Further, her smile had the power to infect other people around her to join. For me, this small fraction of a moment is a representation of the ability women have to stay positive despite unexpected negative occurrences in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691424125794-X54S1FEOVMHONDT3QJCZ/Joan+Morse.jpg Photographers | I - L - The Window Washer Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 There is dignity in work; competence expressing itself. Sometimes, there is also beauty. I made this image in New York City out walking on a sunny day. I serendipitously passed under a glass awning and was struck by the sway and swoosh of this man exercising his craft. I admired his expertise and care. He smiled, waved. No words were exchanged, impossible given the glass barrier. But, there was a connection and appreciation, and a moment of dignity captured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711895270091-USTBBM0WWPCHJZVK5SA8/Joana+Toro.jpg Photographers | I - L - Nayra Lee Mermaid NYC Exhibition, 2024 This photo is part of a series, “TransLATINAS Collaborative Portraits” about transgender Latina immigrants from Central and South America living in New York City as they face discrimination and cope with the psychological consequences of their personal histories of sexual violence and discrimination. TransLatinas document these women, emphasizing them as strong and resilient women, worthy of respect, rather than simply as victims deserving pity. "I am a mermaid. I am not afraid of the depths, but I greatly fear the surface life." —Nayra Lee Berrios. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711923132486-6VU4AG2AKD0ASQD3FBPV/Katie+Cofer.jpg Photographers | I - L - Familia Riders NYC Exhibition, 2024 I often take pictures, usually candid, at the lowrider cruises in San Francisco’s Mission District. Last year, as I was crossing the street, a pristine 1967 Chevrolet Impala came sailing majestically toward me, gracefully balanced on its two right wheels, thanks to the ingenuity of custom hydraulics. Directly in front of the car, on an inspiration I gestured to my camera for permission to take a shot. The driver nodded, and I captured this portrait of culture and pride. I was thrilled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711924492212-1S6U7FPYNFGQUOY48MZ7/Kirsten+Murray.jpg Photographers | I - L - Everyone Everywhere NYC Exhibition, 2024 Designed by Hiroshi Nakamura, the Tokyu Plaza, Omotesando Harajuku, is an ever-changing kaleidoscope of the street life around it. Every mirror fragment reflects a different perspective, as if you’re seeing the past, present, and future all at once. I found myself drawn to the person in the orange coat, perfectly matching the orange taxi. I wondered if they noticed it, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682113793526-C0UCT6S9ST6039VEMDRY/Latife+Solak+Baudet.jpg Photographers | I - L - Peekaboo Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 It was during a wedding ceremony at the town hall of a suburban town near Paris, France. While we all stood up and watch the couple exchanging rings and announced as husband and wife, the boy turned towards me and hid underneath the skirt of his mother as we looked at each other. He wanted to play but he was careful. Being underneath his mother's skirt made him feel secure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711969055429-CR793CUZM2E48NHJAKE8/Leslie+Fratkin.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2024 I met this woman, skinny as a stick, with the most hypnotic eyes I’d ever seen, wearing only a thin tube top, black stockings pulled up to her waist and, on her head, an enormous, messy, white wig. I asked if I could photograph her. She hesitated at first, but then, in the tiniest voice imaginable, she said, okay. I made a few photos, becoming gradually aware of a man in a car idling next to her, looking disapproving and annoyed. After only a minute or so he stepped in front of the camera and said, enough. She immediately looked down and turned away. I thanked her for her time, but she didn't say another word. She simply jumped into the man's car and they sped away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1581641079651-5ZFS03MXE224I4LUIAAG/lil_steinberg_.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2019 This picture was taken in Varanasi, India the beautiful background was appealing to me. When I saw the man dressed in orange going to one direction and the dog, almost the same colour as the man going to another direction , each one in his own world...I knew I had a story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711970885686-SBDYXRIWHBZTQZWI7PBV/Liv+Latricia+Habel.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2024 January 22nd, 2024: Mohamed floats in turquoise waters beneath the sun at River No. 2 Beach, south of Freetown, Sierra Leone. We just met today and will probably not see each other again. Mohamed and his three friends have been playing water fights with my friend’s brother, Christian. When the tide is rising, it carries the salty water from the open ocean through the river amidst mangroves and carved ponds for us to swim in. You don’t feel the tide directly here. When you close your eyes and float with your ears covered by water, you feel weightless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682112702689-13C7KFGIVCA660GYHLV2/Jean+Ross.jpg Photographers | I - L - Feast of San Gennaro Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This photograph was made at the close of the Grand Procession during the celebration of the Feast of San Gennaro in New York City's Little Italy in 2021. Known as the "feast of all feasts," the Feast of San Gennaro celebrates the history and cultural of one of New York's oldest neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546753020251-FRIV4D9L4H2TW8TZZVVA/kasiatrojak.jpg Photographers | I - L While walking around Bhaktapur, Nepal I noticed a line of boys sitting on a brick wall during recess at school. I was drawn to the organized line of how they were sitting: in a perfect arrangement, precise order, evoking the sense of discipline, and I also liked the contrast of the vivid, lively play, with a little bit of chaos, that was happening in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711919855317-LV78CRDVFR8POXBY8MJX/Kate+Cash.jpg Photographers | I - L - Children of Balat, Istanbul NYC Exhibition, 2024 As I explored the streets of Balat, Istanbul, I could hear the laughter and ruckus of children playing. Intrigued and fascinated with my camera, the children welcomed me to where they called home. Humble livings but so rich in happiness I felt compelled to capture a moment of total joy and innocence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711920570134-NVWAJD0UEBVV9KZN1FIG/Katherine+MendozaHIRES.jpg Photographers | I - L - Multitasking NYC Exhibition, 2024 This was taken in Narita during a short trip. I was having anxiety about getting back to work in Singapore and how tedious it would be before the Christmas holidays, when I heard the his lady talking on the phone. Upon looking, all I saw was her reflection on the multi-glass architecture. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a photo of that moment. Having this will always remind me that we women can always multitask to accomplish our days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680287328017-0AVWINKTLURRBY2SWW97/komalbedi_sohal001.jpg Photographers | I - L - What is the color of grief? Grief does not have a specific color does it? People in different cultures associate certain colors with grief, such as black or white, as they may symbolize sadness or mourning. However, there is no universal color that represents grief. It is an emotional experience that can be expressed and experienced differently by each individual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1572899257219-ZQJLS2RKW5Q1QC2UP1E2/Lou_Gilbert.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled Brussels Street Photography Festival, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711923706779-IWL4WM3WAH1K1G7R64B3/Kelly+Beckta.jpg Photographers | I - L - Disconnected NYC Exhibition, 2024 The backdrop for this image is the sculpture called ‘Out of Order,’ in place since 1989. People walked by as if this scene was ordinary, seemingly disconnected from their surroundings and I sought to capture the interplay between light, shadows, and the vivid red of the iconic phone boxes. I assumed a position low to the ground and waited over an hour for this scene to enfold. Finally, a solitary figure appeared in the shadows, juxtaposed against another traversing a well-lit path, freezing a fragment of time where the beauty of life collided with the enduring presence of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1563901229822-TPDIIM6001HY1WRN1EW2/jenna_mulhallbrereton001.jpg Photographers | I - L - Bride and Wolf, San Martin Tilcajete, Mexico PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 NYC Exhibition, 2019 Traditionally in Mexico, Catholic weddings don’t occur during the forty days of Lent. The town of San Martin Tilcajete gives a nod to this tradition by having one final wedding celebration for Carnival, the day before Ash Wednesday. There is a raucous mock ceremony in the town square with two local teenaged volunteers, with a young man serving as the bride. The community comes out to celebrate in an array of costumes, and the day is capped with a feast at the mayor’s home. This photograph is part of a long-term project, Sacred/Sagrado:Festivals of Mexico, that the photographer has been pursuing since 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722972660091-J644NKFHU9FXY5G0XZO2/Juecen.jpg Photographers | I - L - Happiness Held in Hands Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 It was a lovely afternoon when I came across this scene in the NYC subway at Soho. I immediately noticed the word "happiness" on pizza box that formed a contrast with the reaction of the woman behind it. Were people happy with what they had in their hands? I don't know the answer, so I just captured this moment in this most expensive shopping area in NYC, trying to let people think about the relationship between happiness and consumerism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641756450462-BEWT80DJGRL1310JYY6J/karlynne_wintels02.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 As a result of being stuck in Singapore during the COVID pandemic, I attempted to connect more with this small country and its fascination people by showing them in their awesome surroundings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680287712815-XPMILM3XQIXG6B47B3IZ/laura_fontaine002.jpg Photographers | I - L - Summer 2022 Water is an integral part of summer in the Mediterranean countries' culture but, as a photographer, I am drawn to it also for the diverse dimension that creates when taking photos in, through and around it. In this image, kids were playing and having a great time on a hot summer day. I loved the buildings in the background and there was enough of a breeze to create some movement in the water without it being too choppy. The ripples were glistening with the warm sun light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737569701828-MSU3OUVVY7T7AGG8UV19/Kelly+Han.jpg Photographers | I - L - Sunrise Kolam from Bless This House – Pondicherry Series Brazil Exhibition, 2025 In India, a typical morning scene often features women emerging from their homes, having completed their morning chores, to engage in the daily practice of making kolams, intricate geometric designs created on the thresholds of houses to bless the home and honor Hindu deities. These practitioners sprinkle rice powder by hand directly on the ground, creating ephemeral art. In this matrilineal tradition, daughters learn from their mothers. I am interested in exploring the concepts of ephemerality, cycle of life, preservation, and the intersection of women and spirituality through an examination of rituals that safeguard the practitioners and their homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737570610282-5IY6544DS1IRDFD6EF9M/Leah+Diament.jpg Photographers | I - L - Coffee for the Rich Brazil Exhibition, 2025 I vividly remember the moment I saw this woman in Paris. Our eyes met, and I recognized something in her—a beauty that felt both striking and deeply familiar. She held my gaze as I captured her photograph, just as a construction worker entered the frame. To me, this image feels like the world erupting into motion—a whirlwind of characters swirling around one serene woman, as if she exists in an entirely different realm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737571433743-UORX81MZ4GC06P1AMSG8/Lorraine+Moreira+horizontal.jpg Photographers | I - L - Fragments Brazil Exhibition, 2025 The photograph “Fragments” reveals a visual metaphor for a crumbling relationship — where the cracks represent unspoken words, accumulated resentments, and hidden pains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742324659054-PF9Z3Q28KYXON2JTJRNM/Jennyfer+Parra.jpg Photographers | I - L - Armonía Efímera NYC Exhibition, 2025 I often find myself standing at this specific corner in Santiago, Dominican Republic, waiting for the right moment to capture the essence of the scene. I’ve always been drawn to how the space feels—the colors, textures, and energy all coming together. On this particular day, as I stood there, I didn’t expect anything in particular. But then, at the perfect moment, a woman walked by, her outfit creating a striking contrast against the backdrop. It was a fleeting, unplanned intersection, but those are the moments that make street photography so powerful, capturing something spontaneous that holds a deeper meaning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711894538699-AUZZP3LG90OZV2KP5JJQ/Joan+Piekny.jpg Photographers | I - L - Party Girls NYC Exhibition, 2024 Drawn to the spontaneity of the street, I become conscious when things come together within the chaos, an individual integrates with the background of the city, and though transient, the subject’s presence belongs to the moment transcending into vivid life. Attracted initially to the two young women’s appearance and self-expression, their glamorous manner and bold way of dressing, I was also drawn intuitively to their energy and aura. These two were ready for anything, responsive, confident, when I ran to capture them. I feel I have expressed their boldness and gutsiness in the spirit of the moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742325338429-N88TLNQ2GO6MPY8T5RNN/Lisa+Wissner-Slivka.jpg Photographers | I - L - Island Retreat NYC Exhibition, 2025 "Island Retreat" was captured on a warm spring day on Elafonisos Island, Greece. Before setting out on a hike, we stopped at a hotel for coffee, and I saw this window. I was initially attracted by the light coming through the window and the shadow cast on the interior. I keep coming back to this image, because it's a reminder to me to find the balance between being in the outside world while leaving time for inner contemplation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682114647556-T5YK50DXC2N7E0YQGUHG/Loren+Kaye.jpg Photographers | I - L - Girl with a Pearl Alice Band Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 "Girl with a Pearl Alice Band" is a candid image of an adolescent girl who seems naive, unspoilt and charmingly innocent, unlike other teenage girls I observe, often dressed provocatively or with "bling' accessories. She wears a pretty pearl alice band while out shopping with her mother at fashionable Selfridges located on Oxford Street in London. She wears no make up nor jewels. She does not seek to look older than her age. I was fascinated by her appearance as her face looks more appropriate in an earlier period, specifically a young woman from the Dutch Golden Age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742391056142-2ZGI0POGSY8N33DOAEHE/lorihawkins.jpg Photographers | I - L - Waiting for the Bus NYC Exhibition, 2025 After photographing a story on maternal mortality in a hospital in Kapenguria, Kenya, I stepped outside for fresh air. A young woman stood waiting for a bus, wrapped in a green hijab, framed by lush, green hedges. The symmetry of the moment––her stillness, the layered greens, the quiet, in-between space caught my eye. I took the photo to capture that moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680287132583-N3XMLS006E5PNTOL4IJ6/whatever+copy.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 It was already dusk and we were all very tired from a long ride. The kids were relieved to get out of the car, not really knowing where they were running to, so I followed them. They only stopped after a few minutes, when they saw Hitchcock's silhouette. The younger one started dancing while the older one tried to copy the intriguing character. It was a brief moment, luckily I managed to capture it. To me this photo is synonymous with motherhood. The fatigue filled with beautiful moments of happiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755783732969-KK4DVEE2ICGTMSGEUB1S/Isabel+Padilla+Soto.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled 2026 Artist Residency Short List Artist Statement: Ever since I can remember, I’ve been a silent observer of the world and its figures. As a photographer, I often feel like a peaceful ghost—haunting a world that moves too fast for me to follow in life. The more deeply I feel, the more dreamlike my images become. I’m drawn to timeless figures: older people, taxi drivers, and silhouettes. In 2017, I was 21 and living in Seoul for a semester abroad. One night, I experienced an assault that has stayed with me ever since. I fled the scene and got into a taxi. The driver kept glancing back. We had no shared language, but something passed between us. I was crying, disoriented. I felt entirely alone, and I think he knew that. I’ve always been fascinated by taxi drivers—their presence, their solitude, the way they silently witness so many lives. They see strangers’ silences, heartbreaks, drunken nights. They see girls like me, and don’t always know how to help. After that night, I began writing stories about drivers who could see every rider they’d ever carried. Who could speak a universal language in an afterlife. As I grew older, I started speaking with drivers—asking them about their most memorable rides. That’s how I first learned of a local belief: many drivers in Hong Kong speak of having picked up ghosts. I felt something click. I could be that ghost. Maybe I always was. I want to keep exploring this space—the spiritual and emotional terrain between rider and driver, between subject and photographer. I want to hear taxi drivers’ stories, their personal myths, their private rules for navigating the night. But more than that, I want to explore my own floating presence in this city. I want to find out what other spaces can be haunted—who notices me, and who doesn’t. And what better place than New York City? It’s been my home for seven years. Nearly everyone here is from somewhere else. Local taxi drivers are icons, but so are the unnoticed. The city itself is a kind of shared language—one where belonging means being part of something constantly shifting, constantly foreign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1572898281607-SN8VUZPWDOMQDJCBKOKX/Jana_Kup%C4%8D%C3%A1kov%C3%A1.jpg Photographers | I - L - Gondolier Brussels Street Photography Festival, 2019 NYC Exhibition, 2019 Indian Photo Festival, 2020 The photo was taken this Easter in my favorite Italian city Venice. I love the photo for simplicity, art and color contrast. The photographed motif reflects the colors of the Italian flag and at the same time refers to the cultural traditions of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679788312566-6CBW4E90MUFBKTGYOFA8/judith_krasinski_09.jpg Photographers | I - L - You Complete Me Virtual Exhibition, 2023 One night in Philadelphia, a bus stopped near me. I was intrigued by the large face on the ad plastered on its side. I raised my camera in case there might be potential for an interesting juxtaposition. It was then that I noticed the couple inside the bus. Their leaning figures were the perfect shape to complete the missing piece of the man's nose. I went in for the shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705860568475-4L8TNW3DQP6X36Y5I1LD/Julie+Berson.jpg Photographers | I - L - We Are Not Amused Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I was on the Galata Bridge in Istanbul on a rainy day when I saw someone whose clear rain jacket was blowing beautifully in the wind and light. So I went behind her and started silently clicking away. She then turned around and gave me a very stern scowl, and I couldn't resist taking that image of her. I apologized, asked her if she'd like a copy of the photos (not interested) and moved on. I love the way her angry look is echoed by the grey storm clouds around her. Thank you, anonymous woman! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673024667465-84DR2QESW6O5OM6BSXEV/justine_georget.jpg Photographers | I - L - Behind the Infinity of Closed Eyes India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This photo wavers between the sublime and the tragic. It carries in it the emotional fatigue of this man. There is a tension between the beauty of what manifests and the disappearance of this face in the depths of the temple, like an abyssal ocean which engulfs it. It's my own drift into a place where time is lost, where life and melancholy mingle, in a kind of frenetic slippage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755875311706-388RVRE8DGXDQ72YOWS0/Kamna+Dhankhar.jpg Photographers | I - L - Cuba 2026 Artist Residency Short List Artist Statement: I visited Havana, Cuba, in March 2025. To me, Cuba was like entering a time capsule: quiet but vibrant. The silence there spoke very loudly of the people’s will, determination, and resilience. I was moved by how they were living with joy in a place where the buildings told a story of past glories and present neglect. Kids played in playgrounds with broken equipment but enjoyed them as if they were brand new. Small acts of kindness brought smiles to their faces, young and old alike. Everyone dressed with care and dignity, so much so that you almost don’t notice the whole country falling apart behind them. The Cuban Kids really touched my heart, and I could not help but capture their everyday struggles and joys. I can’t wait to go back and explore more of the unsaid stories that the locals carry in their hearts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682112937513-36U7WDRPYNY2IWRW5E3C/kantaya_new_resend.jpg Photographers | I - L - Menu Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I was walking through a shopping mall with my camera when the strange sight of a yet-to-open restaurant caught my attention. You see vegetables lying on the table top, a guy busy with preparations in the background. And most strangely, a "Chicken like Man" on display. Absorbed by the scene, I snap away at the shutter while wondering what is actually listed on the Menu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1549057772069-BKBCQTGZ6YLOU6UAFR6X/Zusman.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 The sea rages over the walls of the Malecón; the roads are closed, flooded, and empty. And yet nothing can stop young Julio from training in the abandoned José Martí stadium. I made this photo in the midst of several days of flooding in Havana in the winter of 2016. Earlier in the day I paid a guy $2 to use his boots because in some places the water came past my knees. Around the corner from Hotel Presidente, where people were stranded as the water reached chest-high around the veranda, I encountered Julito jumping puddles as track practice, outside the José Martí stadium. Foreigners are not allowed to photograph the stadium, probably because it is in such a state of decay, but Julito somehow persuaded the guard to let me take a few quick shots. It's an incredibly beautiful edificio, like so much of the architecture in Havana, although many of the Cubanos I've met here lament when they see this image because they remember the stadium's better days. When the sun is out, grand pillars of light rise up to frame the youth who train there accompanied by some very dedicated coaches. Running, jumping rope, boxing. As foreign investment pours into restoring 5-star hotels, the structures that service the Cubans are left to the whims of excessive sun, high winds and floods. What moves my heart is seeing how the Cubans do not forsake this once majestic stadium; it's still put to great use--to strengthen both their bodies and their will to push themselves forward into a very uncertain future. I've traveled to Cuba at least 15 times since 2015, often for a month or more. Initially, I, like so many other photographers, went to try and capture the island; yet in the end, it was the island that most certainly captured me. "Amado será todo lo que ama," is the title of my work in-progress. It's a quote from the Cuban's beloved José Martí, and can be translated as "Loved will be all that loves." This is the gift Cuba has given me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682113322452-RPQOR4B45XJG6YERZURK/Kathryn+Mussallem.jpg Photographers | I - L - Sailor Trouble, New York NY, May 2019 Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 In conversation on the streets of New York with this set of Sailors, I don't know his name but the only one that comes to mind is Trouble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770200739323-OLE2XO5D8VJ9T8W6SXPE/kiki_streitberger.jpg Photographers | I - L - The Red Shoes NYC Exhibition, 2026 On a walk through London, I noticed this woman in fabulous red shoes, green tights, and a bright yellow coat as she stepped onto a bus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705861240254-0A18OXSJZWS6OSV7OS3L/Kim+Keller.jpg Photographers | I - L - Topview Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I love watching how people, images, and words wander into each other's space on the street. I'd seen this bus before and never given it much thought. Suddenly, the model's boot and the tourist's head came together like a children's cartoon. Look out! And the direction of her eyes make it look like she's taking very careful aim, too. I don't remember whether the man walked away or the bus drove off first, but it was there and gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1739372873437-POZYXCYF4JTMCY4JZO07/Lara+Williams.jpg Photographers | I - L - Marrakech Medina Man Brazil Exhibition, 2025 This photo was captured on a Morocco photo workshop, in Marrakech. It's known as the "Red City" due to the red sandstone walls within the walled city of the Medina, where this photo was shot. Shadows where growing long in the afternoon, and I found this location where I could stand and capture silhouettes while life flowed by–a cyclist, an older man in traditional clothing, and then this man, in a proper hat and street clothes. I wanted to capture the juxtaposition of old and new, bright colors and no color, barred windows and the smooth walls of the open street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1547092727588-2QJS8JEH2VVMSGGW6UVR/stewartlauren002.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 I took this photo in Muqam Shah Wali Village in Northern Kashmir. I had just finished photographing a family in their home, and as I was leaving, these children gathered in the window in curiosity. The small one room school was connected to the family’s home and served all the children in the village. Kashmir has been a flashpoint for over 70 years. It is a place often associated with conflict, heartache, and war. Turning the camera toward the children, I wondered if they would know a more peaceful future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770201208460-TRA2RW51KJPPEUD6LMNN/lidia_chavinskaia.jpg Photographers | I - L - Third-class intimacy NYC Exhibition, 2026 I take the Trans-Siberian Railway at least once a year. Always in third class. Each time, I observe with the curiosity of a photographer and sociologist how people create a temporary private space for themselves in this public space, which is enclosed and densely populated by other travelers. The interplay of light and shadow, moving bodies and static objects is always fascinating, Here, I was particularly touched by the intimacy of the mother-daughter relationship amid other people taking refuge in their phones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711970245094-NTIBQYAUXOAZ1DYXSJSY/Lisandra+Alvarez.jpg Photographers | I - L - Santa NYC Exhibition, 2024 Santa, that's what I call her, although it is not her name. She is a woman I met one afternoon, and her house is a whole world: her religion, aesthetics, and history. There could not be a woman as Cuban and Oricha as her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770259484545-3HUPHH1I4P4CPY3M0WAP/lucia_iturbe.jpg Photographers | I - L - Garden NYC Exhibition, 2026 They were walking through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with their baby. The baby slept in her stroller off to the side while they took the photograph. It was ephemeral; on my part, I only managed to take two photographs. I aim to create a space that feels inviting at first glance and unfolds through time and looking. I believe the force of a photograph lies in what is not revealed, in the quiet space where imagination begins. How does their picture look? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1775181716380-TM8ZL9G70GJF6ZNQRWNW/JelisaPeterson+%281%29.jpg Photographers | I - L - “Hide and Seek” SPAIN EXHIBITION, MAY 2026 I spent a lot of time in Mozambique Island and have done so for many years. The island is the place I feel most at home and I create many of my images there. I was walking down the main road after a long, hot morning of making images; I was ready to break but still watching as I was walking. I heard some laughter and looked toward where the sound was coming from. Just below me, I could see a boy and girl playing hide and seek in a house with open doors back and front to meet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1775181904725-8VF5PL5V7K7DKMZDBP2T/karenyaeger.jpg Photographers | I - L - Untitled SPAIN EXHIBITION, MAY 2026 I noticed these sisters along the Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront on a late summer afternoon. They seemed to be relaxing and enjoying being together. Unsure which hasidic sect they are a part of, but was taken by their bright red matching outfits. https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/new-york-city-workshop-wiyth-gulnara-samoilova-and-dominique-misrahi daily 0.75 2020-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1583197006645-P5AX7YBT2KEY0A0RC0Q9/WSpromoGD.jpg NEW YORK CITY WORKSHOP WITH GULNARA SAMOILOVA AND DOMINIQUE MISRAHI - NEW YORK CITY WORKSHOP WITH GULNARA SAMOILOVA AND DOMINIQUE MISRAHI NEW YORK CITY STREET PORTRAITS WORKSHOP. This workshop is designed for all levels of photographers. Gulnara and Dominique will teach you how to create candid portraits of random people and how to overcome fear during the process. You will learn how to connect with strangers when shooting on streets and how to make them to ignore you. You will also learn how the practice of street photography develops instincts, patience and quick reactions so essential in all aspects of photography. $400 per person. Contact Gulnara at hello@womenstreetphotographers.com to reserve your spot. Gulnara Samoilova website gulnara.com Follow Gulnara @gulnara_nyc Dominique Misrahi website dominiquemisrahi.com/ Follow Dominique @dominique_nyc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1583197006645-P5AX7YBT2KEY0A0RC0Q9/WSpromoGD.jpg NEW YORK CITY WORKSHOP WITH GULNARA SAMOILOVA AND DOMINIQUE MISRAHI - NEW YORK CITY WORKSHOP WITH GULNARA SAMOILOVA AND DOMINIQUE MISRAHI NEW YORK CITY STREET PORTRAITS WORKSHOP. This workshop is designed for all levels of photographers. Gulnara and Dominique will teach you how to create candid portraits of random people and how to overcome fear during the process. You will learn how to connect with strangers when shooting on streets and how to make them to ignore you. You will also learn how the practice of street photography develops instincts, patience and quick reactions so essential in all aspects of photography. $400 per person. Contact Gulnara at hello@womenstreetphotographers.com to reserve your spot. Gulnara Samoilova website gulnara.com Follow Gulnara @gulnara_nyc Dominique Misrahi website dominiquemisrahi.com/ Follow Dominique @dominique_nyc https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/photographers-ii daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1563302973495-EPJBFVTVJ08GIRT4Y23L/image-asset.jpeg Photographers | D - H As I was walking in Times Square on a beautiful winter afternoon my eyes got caught by an elegant and charismatic young men .his effortless sense of style made me think of the iconic singer Prince he kindly accepted to have his photograph taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1596564967554-XOXTULFMAJLVI4Y9Z6PH/gul_kanik.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1581618780284-CFFWKZ4Q8M0SBUUFJ1NT/Emily+Sujay+Sanchez.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1597080906753-LH7QSVKZGILCE1BORG3P/fanny_genoux004.jpg Photographers | D - H - Eclipse Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 NYC Exhibition, 2020 I took this photo in Paris. I did not think, passing by chance on this street, that I would see colored walls. I'm used to photographing the colorful streets of Nice, my city, and I was attracted by this small, flashy stadium wedged between buildings. The sun is beating down in this late morning of July, and part of the stadium is in shade. I like to play with colors and shadows. I stayed a moment to photograph the players who came in and out of the dark, as well as the ball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641578062032-G26SLYF4NLCG28VPAQC2/wsp+paris+2021+Dushka+Vujovic.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Paris Exhibition, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1562532341276-8TES5SM8ARQQBEIHQUHP/diana_maria03.jpg Photographers | D - H PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641753283399-WDCX8GCUKGOOTQUY2FYH/Eniko+Dorogi.jpeg Photographers | D - H - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595953932777-470V6TZTTCBY3PDGA5AY/donna_keough_free04838.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Gaze Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 This photo was taken during the very early stages of the 2020 pandemic. I had a specific goal to document life in my city (in a safe manner) during this strange time. Restaurants were shifting to take-out services only. I wanted to take photos through the window of this restaurant of employees wearing face masks, as that was fairly uncommon at the time. This woman, a customer, was waiting for her order, leaning against a counter by the window with her back to me. She turned to look at me. I thought her gaze was so interesting through the rain droplets on the window. She gave me a little smile. She didn’t appear to be hesitant or uncomfortable, and did not duck away. She didn’t appear to be stressed by the pandemic situation or the bad weather. That’s part of the street photography process. You start with one thing in mind et voilà, something else presents itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1630784620311-VQEMCQCT08O4KV6OYSXJ/009_fran_meckler8.jpg Photographers | D - H - Stranded Kuala Lumpur Virtual Exhibit, summer 2020 Old Route 40 in Truckee California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595958984917-VIKIYKTEBNY1RONORGE8/heather_solomon02.jpg Photographers | D - H - Red Stilettos Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 NYC Exhibition, 2020 Oaxaca, a city in southern Mexico, is known for it’s rich cultural heritage, proud indigenous people, and colorful colonial architecture. There is a wonderful contrast between centuries old traditions thriving alongside burgeoning modern buildings, an expanding culinary community and the contemporary clothing of many Oaxacan people. Here, a woman running in high red stiletto heels, is equally likely to be going to a business meeting, local street market, or lively night club. Mesmerized by those fabulous shoes and the vibrant colors of her outfit, I darted after her. I was able to take just a few images before she disappeared down a bustling cobblestone street. For me, the woman in this photograph represents the wonders of Oaxaca, a city filled with brilliant colors and unabashed exuberance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595955846839-9X6NT50XV28ZYJ2CVTEV/Fernanda+Bayler5.jpg Photographers | D - H - His Gaze Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 Indian Photo Festival, 2020 I have always been fascinated by Faith. During the period I lived in Delhi, I was in contact for the first time with Islam, and this beautiful religion deeply intrigued me. I took this picture during one of many visits to Masjids in Old Delhi. The compositions of shadows and faces are fertile ground for inspiration and imagination. The gaze of the faithful immersed in their prayers, often unaware of their surroundings, is one of my favorite subjects. I always wonder what is going on in their minds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758452907-7RYEZ4N1I78IJ2SGCZUS/Ebiere+Erusa.jpeg Photographers | D - H - The Commute Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 As a country that commonly knows the phrases “we move” and “suffering and smiling,” Nigeria is a community of strength. Life may not always offer breaks, but they can always rely on someone who is living a life similar to them. It’s through communal experiences that people tend to share a bond and relax. Even if the experience is pure chaos or headed towards it. This is a photo from my series on everyday workers and what it truly means to ‘suffer and smile.’ Bonds and emotions can still be felt or shared, as chaotic as life may get. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758511864-HXIDPG23LLXLFKG4Y5EX/Elaheh-Abdolahabadi.jpeg Photographers | D - H - An Instant of Time and Place Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 A photo is a cutting of reality, a selection of the photographer’s mind, which indicates to the viewer what part of reality the photographer wants them to see, a choice that, with slight modifications, could represent many different realities. I realized gradually that a photo can reference a specific time and place, yet can also suggest the existence of other things unseen. I took this photograph with that in mind. The cloth and subject are symbols of photographic selection, and the viewer is deprived of seeing the surrounding area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758584001-WBK4YRNIDR61KY0XQ9T2/Eno+Inyangete.jpeg Photographers | D - H - Walking on Water Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 Walking on Water is from the series, “Light at the End of My Window,” photographs made during the Covid-19 lockdown period in NYC. Like many others, the pandemic has been a harrowing experience that tested my faith. Shifting my gaze away from the four corners of my space, I turned to document my street. While I saw moments of pain and sorrow, I also saw moments of hope and was reminded of the light that never left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609776167319-QDQI2B1LM91KAOLUJM3Z/farnazdamnabi+%281%29-Edit.jpg Photographers | D - H - Metamorphosis Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020. BEST IN SHOW Trieste Photo Days Exhibition, Italy, 2020 Indian Photo Festival, 2020 NYC Exhibition, 2020 Annual Women Street Photographers exhibition, NYC, 2020. Patti Fogarty grant winner – 3d place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641762497768-HS6CXKOC84P5R1G0J2F0/Helin+Malchijah.jpeg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641753312507-L7137HDJ0W702J4F4TQX/Eyhan+%C3%87elik.jpeg Photographers | D - H - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1650293307543-2Y0999U94MY343GUF0AD/dagmar_schwelle.jpg Photographers | D - H - Days of Harmattan #3 NYC Exhibition, 2022 When I travelled Ghana’s South by taxi a couple of years ago, we stopped in a small village. Many houses and shacks were painted red there. I was told that Vodafone had provided free paint, the inhabitants had accepted and transformed their houses into advertising space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1544227018472-MQBNSEV4U9VTECUF7CEC/achak_thequeue_2016_digitalarchivalprint_20x30_30x45_40x60.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758371734-LTENQ4EQF5C64N91POQW/Dee+Dwyer.jpeg Photographers | D - H - Beauty in the Struggle Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, 2021 At a Defend Black Women March in Washington D.C. on June 19th, 2020 I saw Mike. He carried a carefree energy I recognized. As we began having a deep conversation on why the march was important, we discovered that we’re both from Southeast, D.C. Mike informed me that he'd just come home from jail a few weeks ago after 10 years. He expressed how badly he wants to ensure that Black women are safe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1650294710611-RNPHWG3CTDXBUFOBT718/donna_kross.jpg Photographers | D - H - Onion Camouflage NYC Exhibition, 2022 I made this image in an outdoor market in Camagüey, Cuba. As I was about to pass by this scene, it made me chuckle, so I was inspired to capture it to make others smile, as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1650294959639-CHG1U1GI7T77L0SR345M/ElaOpatowiecka.jpg Photographers | D - H - Wing Swept NYC Exhibition, 2022 I took this photograph in Gastown Vancouver. It is a very vibrant area of the city that attracts tourists, rich people along with those who struggle with mental problems and addictions. I took this photo intuitively, being aligned with my situation as a woman in our society. Seeing the man sweeping is a rare view, so it made my heart fly. The winged heart was the best background that could have appeared. I think that photography is about capturing our inner world projected outside. It is also about the passion that is present in everyday, simply actions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651153575813-FTVOIT0T1HAVZCK0L8ZL/dafnayosha_1_of_1.jpg Photographers | D - H - Inverted Lawyers NYC Exhibition, 2022 Passover in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, one of the most extreme religious neighborhoods in Jerusalem, during the observance of one of the holiday mitzvot "burning chametz,” is burning the leftover flour that is forbidden to be eaten during the holiday. The fire takes place outside the house and is accompanied by prayers for the holiday. Only men are allowed to come to the fire area. The image shows the contrasts created in the scene in opposite layers, a young girl is seen with her back to the scene of the fire in contrast to all others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1544227749349-97X1Q2FMSZG97WJ9J81U/efratsela.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651157596169-Y7OPAFBT3AQN3F385O3U/elaine_norman.jpg Photographers | D - H - Closing Night at Mama Leone's NYC Exhibition, 2022 The City of New York is a major source of inspiration and the connecting thread throughout my artistic practice. This photograph is part of a continuing personal project that I began in the summer of 1981 when a beloved Art Deco movie theatre was demolished to make room for a luxury high-rise. While many of the images in this series serve as records of places now mostly gone, they also play a role in my personal history, making this body of work a unique combination of historical document and visual diary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651157915732-3FY5U9P9D906UHRN4L2H/erica_lansner.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2022 I was photographing a protest outside the office of the NY Attorney General demanding justice for Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died after being restrained by the Rochester Police in March 2020. I watched as this man repeatedly pounded his fists on the glass wall of the office building. After a few moments with his head up, he bowed his head and suddenly appeared to be an anonymous person who could be anyone and everyone. At this moment, he conveyed a powerful sense of sorrow, grief, and anger, despite his face not being visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651521757637-LCWDM9NAHP2KMGBZYSJU/gabriela_cervantes.jpg Photographers | D - H - At the Other Side of the Kitchen NYC Exhibition, 2022 It was Sunday. My dad had promised to take me to a village to eat. We drove from Zamora to Carapan in Michoacan. Once we arrived at the restaurant, I saw this guy who I perceived just as masculine as feminine. He was the only male working at the place. Before leaving, I went to the kitchen to thank them for the delicious food we had eaten, then I found him at the other side of the kitchen. I had my camera in my hand. Exactly when I pressed the shutter button he turned to me. I knew I had something. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1612921578677-QL2X0GERBAJL0LNRNHR5/Hazel_Hankin.jpg Photographers | D - H - Tokyo Smokers PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 NYC Exhibition, 2019 My three weeks in Tokyo were a street photographer’s dream. Exploring the city one day, I was intrigued by the visual possibilities at this designated smoking area near Sinjuku train station. For more than half an hour I sat against a wall and shot the changing tableaus, waiting and hoping for all the elements to come together in the frame at a peak moment. My patience was rewarded! This is probably my favorite image from the trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651523900293-3HLYOARKLS1N76ZEX8GY/heather_milne.jpg Photographers | D - H - Pink Sequins NYC Exhibition, 2022 Captured on Fitzgerald Ave, near central Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand: I felt an immediate zing when I saw the glam pink jacket and headgear contrasting with the mundane city background. She posed for me while sneaking a quick vape before she continued on to a function. The mask and suburban blue car provides the moment with a time period, but her stance and outfit could be in the past or future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651587017023-9M2JD2LVM2BICN7KUJO8/heloisedenantes.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Football Girl from Ipanema NYC Exhibition, 2022 February 2021, exhausted, I had just arrived in Rio from Paris. I was shocked by both the beauty of the Ipanema scenery and the vivid life here. A sense of freedom and joyful carelessness radiate from the numerous football players along the beach. This image portrays one of the few girls playing. It was taken when the world, Brazil particularly, was facing extremely dramatic Covid-19 challenges. Suspended in time, this golden hour in Ipanema felt surreal. Among the global chaos, life goes on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651587370660-VB21UTMNTA8MLPTBVNHM/hennygarfunkel.jpg Photographers | D - H - West Side Highway NYC Exhibition, 2022 Some years back, I saw these people at a crosswalk. This scene spoke to me so strongly, and I knew: I could not grab my small camera fast enough. The people, colors, juxtapositions; similarities/differences, young/old, solitude/multitudes, loving/caring, and the kinds of baggage and/or individuals we carry and keep. Strangers from different stations in life, one not knowing the other. I believe I captured the irony, humor, tragedy, love, humanity, all in a color palette that unifies. I do not think they noticed me. I felt happy, and now I have this slice of life photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673019142873-3SH7DH4XFTF6SQYUPR7F/dessireemartinez.jpg Photographers | D - H - Woman Singing India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This woman was singing in the aisles of the local market on the morning of Three Kings Day, a very special day for children in Mexico and Catholic groups. That day, I visited the local market and noticed that there was joy in the aisles: vendors accompanied by wrestlers were giving away balls while taking pictures and giving autographs to visitors and children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673019539621-6BY6AJI151EK0DEBTTW0/dilruba_shuvra.jpg Photographers | D - H - When Your Eyes Were Shut India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 Our inner eyes are opened when we close our eyes. When we close our eyes, our entire body and senses are engaged, we listen, feel, and become more. It means finding the center of our being in order to connect with everything else around us. The more we sense and feel this connection, the more we come to understand who we are and how we have been connected to the rest of the universe within ourselves. We see light when we close our eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673020744967-YH47S74VRT21XM9MDGC9/elsa_arrais.jpg Photographers | D - H - Passersby India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 I dare to say D. Luís I bridge in Porto, Portugal, is one of the most photographed bridges of the world, and every time I’m there, I think of how can I make an exquisite image from it. Luckily for me it has been under construction, and by the end of the day, the light is always magnificent against the temporary protection fence. On the day this photo was taken, as always, the bridge was full of passersby that cross Douro River. I picked through a small opening in the fence and, how exciting, there it was my photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673023674716-2G5KWXQOWTQMU5Q9E11D/GladysYelland1.jpg Photographers | D - H - Mrs. India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 I took this photo when I was out shooting with another fellow street photographer. I watched a man placing mirror behind a van and decided to take a shot. I noticed how the lines diverted into a pretend road. I loved the illusion the mirror made with these lines and called it 'bending reality'. I felt quite pleased that I managed to shoot something that is mundane in every day life but actually looks interesting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641758541779-4M56E9EROUJS4CLN4OXS/Elke+Reisinger.jpeg Photographers | D - H - Resilience in Black and White Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 After spending quite some time in India, I observed the heavy male dominance on the streets. One day, I stumbled upon an alley to find this group of women walking resiliently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673223012726-TDWMK5O7OASFKBRXFDV0/francesca_forquet.jpg Photographers | D - H - Support Nature NYC Exhibition, 2022 Since I moved to Santa Monica, I've been fascinated by its residential neighborhoods and their "flip side,” the back alleys. Hidden from the apparent uniformity of the streets, there are clues, objects, messages that tell us who we are, what we believe in, and how different we are from each other. It is an on-going project on our society and its contradictions in the alleys in Santa Monica, California. “The vibrant colors and selective framing of these little glimpses of So Cal life feel hyper real! Each one seemingly has a mystery to unravel”— Chris Peters, IPA Juror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679784009559-CNWS6EW5LGM2XXAZ1MEU/Danielle.jpg Photographers | D - H - Pretty in Pink Virtual Exhibition, 2023 “This is a really volcanic ensemble you’re wearing. It’s really marvelous.” – Duckie Dale, Pretty in Pink Paramount Pictures It was Times Square at noon, crowded with people. Amid the hustle, I noticed a woman, dressed in pink and bathed in exquisite light. Her face was everything; it was all I saw in the moments before I made the portrait. I aimed to capture her glow and her soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679784190991-MW5P8I9QCWAFJWRJT74O/dimpy_bhalotia001.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Energy is my first language and photography is my method of attainment. I believe every photograph emits an energy and through this photograph I want my viewers to appreciate their lived experience and spread the message of love and light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679781407053-0JSXLI8AQ22FCTG6ZI4G/elaineaemmott001jpg.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679781443018-SEZKD03JWF9NCX11MN7G/ellen_mitchell_13.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679781498108-ZNOZU03UKUDN98E9B2OI/Gaby+alcocer5.jpeg.jpg Photographers | D - H - Lights in the shadows Virtual Exhibition, 2023 March 8th 2022 We go out to hear our Voice not die in the silence. We lift our hearts and ask for a fair and safe Mexico. Pain, frustration, and courage take over the spirit but in the end what remains on the way is to be strong and be united. I love my country and our Women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679787943792-FY22S055W0MBI61SOHAM/gabriellemotola02_.jpg Photographers | D - H - Twins at Ten and Two Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Identical twins astonish me. I’m enchanted by the echo and shaken out of any daze daily living might impose. The universe reminds me that we are magical. I made this photograph on my way to get groceries. I usually take my camera with me on errands. The twins were out for a walk with their brother. No plans, just a stroll in the sunshine to see what caught their fancy. We chatted effortlessly about our neighborhood and the changes happening while I made pictures. Twins are a paradox, as is photography. Once I look past the surface, distinctions emerge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679788063335-ECZQQOITVDHMOZWSDBVT/Haneen+Kareem2.jpg Photographers | D - H - Blackness Virtual Exhibition, 2023 A woman with a black cat passes with her traditional Islamic uniform Abaia in one of the old streets of Baghdad. I felt the distinctness of the composition in this moment so I captured it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682110607518-Y455D3RJVVG9T9A46G6A/Darcy_Padilla.jpg Photographers | D - H - Mr. Thomas Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 Mr. Horace Thomas on his way home after the Black Lives Matter march. I asked to take his photograph. We talked about the buttons on his jacket. And our hopes for a future we both will likely never know. Behind him the mural of musicians played a silent song. At the cafe that stood on this corner long ago. Mr. Thomas is 70. His eyes glowed. Despite everything, despite time. (Tenderloin, San Francisco) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682111194279-1AB7W6TLMN9D154D6961/Elena+Alexandra.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Art of Difference Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I took his image spontaneously when I saw this scene, as my hand automatically grabbed the camera. Later, when I looked at the capture, I had to think about socially and culturally constructed concepts such as femininity and masculinity in Western society. This photograph expresses these ideas through the woman's red dress, her posture, dreamy butterfly wings, and the masculinity portrayed by the man who is clearly working, selling almonds, smoking, looking grumpy at me, and unbothered about his visual appearance. The contrast between the two social roles of women and men is perfectly captured and expressed in this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682111842174-1SARGBLOG34AO9S185UK/Fran+Hales.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Annual Exhibition in New York, 2023 This young Orthodox Jewish boy along with his elders were showing their support for Palestine at a protest in London. It was the end of the day and it's likely he was tired. I noticed him as I was leaving. I was captivated by his gaze and body position - slightly protective and he's sat as if hiding behind the members of his community. The Orthodox Jewish community keep to themselves and it seems he is trying to do that whilst waiting patiently for it to be finished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1684858834035-RBWG8XWUNRFZZWOAY7AX/Screenshot+2023-05-23+at+12.15.20+PM.png Photographers | D - H - Dance On The Pier, Williamsburg, NY, June 20, 2020 NYC Exhibition, 2022 I have danced and documented these gatherings for several months now. They were conceived when the pandemic peaked, bridging the gap between private and public space while transcending both generational and societal spheres. The same qualities I cultivate in my photographic approach also inform this dance: it happens on the street, people are immersed in their surroundings, it is unpredictable – in order for it to happen, one must show up and go with the flow. The woman in the foreground reminds me of an ancient priestess performing a ritual. She seems to hold the (luminous) keys to the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673021581960-WT0SJYMHPXKVJX589D3X/gabrielatrousilova1.jpg Photographers | D - H - Together India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 I was passing by the piazzetta of our National Theather and saw the poster, when all the sudden from the other side lady came and stood there...and I shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691426797085-HMJKUW5U32LM856G00E2/IMG_0979.JPG Photographers | D - H - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Quoting Robert Adams on Edward Hopper's artwork, "However much Hopper anguished over the displacement of nature, he never abandoned the city because, in addition to the compassion he felt for those who lived there, he reliably found in the city one remaining natural element—sunlight. With it, nothing was irredeemable." Similarly, I found my vocation through a fascination with light, capturing it with intuitive and emotional commitment. In this photo, captured moments before the Macy's Day Parade began, a young sousaphone player paused, basking in the sun's kiss—a fleeting refuge amidst the brewing chaos and excitement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691433880414-JIHPT5SVQG99PX0BRRKB/Elisa+Paties.jpg Photographers | D - H - Sunday Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Sunday in my home town, Venice: washing out in the sun and people going to the Holy Mass. The warm color of the wall, the strong shadows, and people passing by took me back to the time I used to live there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705786138102-GG3R89VILM2T97H0OENB/Enrica+Ridolfi.jpg Photographers | D - H - In the Night Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I took this photo in Washington Square, New York, last April. I was watching the people passing under the arch when I saw the girl with the funny hat who attracted my attention, so I took the picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691434359192-CHCBMK8APMIGKMREYNHU/Dagmara+Dilling-Boer.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Bets are On Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 At a park in Hanoi, surrounding a lake, a group of men play a game, focused, pensive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711843217020-D2ATXP3BFWESIE5KQ3P3/Francesca+Brecciaroli.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Footballer NYC Exhibition, 2024 I took this photo during a football training session in my local town, Beckenham, UK in 2021. I was asked to take some photos of a special football session, and I was lucky to capture this boy while he was practicing with his football. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711889756134-ALOQX6NPACS836O8N6UI/Hana+Peskova.jpg Photographers | D - H - Upstairs with Bodyguards NYC Exhibition, 2024 This moment was captured in the La Défence district of Paris. This district has special place in my heart. It is known for its morning hustle, people rushing to work with coffee in hand, lots of people with their destinies getting lost in this concrete jungle. The pigeons represent a piece of nature, reminding us that the people are not alone here, and that even a pigeon can get lost in their thoughts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711809894633-RDT9ERXS81Z2KJBJ8RBZ/dorie_hagler.jpg Photographers | D - H - Halloween NYC Exhibition, 2024 Suzie Sims Fletcher and KC Weakly make their way to the West Village Halloween parade. I felt the physical satisfaction with goosebumps on my arms when I made the portrait of this hauntingly-stunning pair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1544227413258-W7JKD1MYFQIVMOUSFET0/efi_longinou_03.jpg Photographers | D - H “When I moved from Athens to Berlin, I had to understand and get used to both a different culture and a foreign language. Photography helped me to communicate and get closer to the people. It was the key to adjust to my new life and each day the streets would provide me with different experiences, each day I would discover new things. One day, while I was walking quickly along one of the most beautiful streets in Berlin (Friedrichstrasse), a ladies’ impressive white hair caught my eye. As I saw her protruding from the high-rise buildings, I felt like she was in complete harmony with the city’s scenery, so I took a quick snap.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691776025901-B5YYGK6H2Y6JS3W81WQS/fanjahubers.jpg Photographers | D - H - At the Butcher India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 I was standing in front of a market stall of a butcher in Amsterdam. I observed the dogs and was waiting for the perfect shot, and this shot made me very happy, because of the way the dog looks into the camera, and the other one is waiting between the other customers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711806241005-WYVFTG8SB1H7QFYADKBM/DawnEagleton.jpg Photographers | D - H - Start Spreading the News NYC Exhibition, 2024 This photograph was taken through the window of a coffee shop in my local town of Exeter. The lady sat just in front of the window with her back to me. As I was walking past, my eye caught her white jacket and hair, and I knew there was a good opportunity to take an image with striking contrast due to her proximity to the window and the shadows of the coffee shop. She was just turning the page of her paper which made for a much more interesting image. I was thrilled it turned out how I imagined. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1544227144960-WANCTEIW3NMYND9RQFHK/DebraniDas.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722968647440-RBRBNK04Z89ION5KM3UT/Elisabetta+Felici.jpg Photographers | D - H - Be Yourself Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 This photo was taken during Rome Pride 2024. They were beautiful and very confident and I wanted to capture all their essence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722970810123-T7H82MBNBRPFC74EO6UV/Emma+Collins.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 Weaving through the network of canals and tall buildings in Amsterdam, I found a busy pedestrian area with a channel of light cutting through the procession of shoppers. It was the perfect place to make myself invisible. Inconspicuously nestled into the sunny side of the street on the edge of the wave, I watched for hours as people surged past, feeling the rhythm and flow, waiting for interesting shapes to emerge from the shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722971605469-ITARML8FYONVZ8B1RR2J/IMG_8634.JPG Photographers | D - H - L'artist Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 It was on the south of France in summer. We were at his artist's studio. I wanted to photograph him when he was working. We took a break and suddenly I saw this light on the green table– that's it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691771712629-5JGAZA3RDFBDVJRRSGE8/Elizabeth+Cowle.jpg Photographers | D - H - Viva la Revolućion Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Living with the revolution in Cuba for over 60 years has been a complex journey. Many people supported the revolution's ideals, hoping for a fairer and more equitable society. However, years of oppression, inefficiencies, scarcities, embargo, isolation, ongoing poverty and economic difficulties, have taken a long enduring toll on today’s Cuba. The generation that experienced and witnessed the revolutionary struggle was given hope for equality. Despite the adversities, “Ominira,” born post revolution, continues to carry the banner of her parents through her name, meaning freedom, independence, and liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737567918170-TQZ8ZYQ73OUCPCEM55H4/Emilie+Grand-Clement.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Brazil Exhibition, 2025 In 2023, I spent a few months traveling across the USA, working on a personal photography project. On that day, I was wondering how I could ever capture the very impressive rocks of Monument Valley that has been seen so many times. Could I ever make something interesting? That’s what I was thinking about when I was leaving the gift shop and noticed that the view of the iconic rock was perfectly framed by a window, in front of which people were posing. So, I positioned myself and I waited… the magic happened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1635175387689-3RL6M4QR7V9LB7PRG4RP/Francesca%2BChiacchio2.jpg Photographers | D - H - Part of "Women Street Photographers" book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722971069930-O1LC1IOTAZEOCHUL0BFR/Hana+Fialov%C3%A1.jpg Photographers | D - H - Reflections of Paris Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 When the sun finally came out in Paris after heavy rain, I caught a glimpse of the top of the Louvre pyramid floated in a puddle. I waited a while for the right tourist. Click, and the photo was ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742321652293-9BYSC3XGZJDUWXMBBYHI/darciegoldberg-2.jpg Photographers | D - H - Boys with Guns NYC Exhibition, 2025 As I travel and document our world, I try to make my photographs record its essence for those who were not able to make the journey. Over the years, I have stayed true to my love of b&w photography. I often sit with camera in hand and watch the subjects and lighting change while I photograph. This photo was taken on a side street in Agra, India. I sat and watched these three boys run and chase each other with toy guns. They stopped to negotiate among themselves. They turned and looked directly at me. It was a fleeting moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682110734221-NG8D2AHUIBJVFK5ZLFD8/Deb_Fong.jpg Photographers | D - H - Translucence Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 Ahead of Lunar New Year, crowds gathered in Hong Kong’s sprawling Victoria Park. I arrived near sunset, curious to observe for the first time since moving there how the festivities would manifest. The scene was pleasantly chaotic, buzzing with celebratory energy and popping with color. Seeking more subtle moments, I noticed this little girl peering through her translucent pink ball, as the reflection of trees and the city’s iconic skyline appeared to merge with her and her father’s hair. I was struck by the contrast of her melancholy visage with the surrounding joyful scene, left wondering what she was contemplating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742322160432-YWTIO0EHNQ77M3Y2W53R/Diana+Abdulaeva.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2025 It was a Halloween night, the street was full of chaotic energy. People rushed past, caught up in the excitement of the celebration, but there she was, sitting apart from it all. Calm, composed, and confident, her presence was magnetic. That fleeting moment felt timeless, and I was lucky to capture it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609775333732-3G4E0WAT5CGPSJLRPV6K/ericareade.jpg Photographers | D - H - Beach Lovers: The Couple Next Door NYC Exhibition, 2020 This couple is a part of my larger series, Beach Lovers, an ongoing documentation of intimate moments shared by couples on the beaches of NYC. It was July 4th, 2019, and the beach was packed with people. I was drawn to this couple for a couple of reasons: it was incredibly hot, and their bodies were glistening. Their lazy, intimate entwined beach nap stopped me in my tracks. The book title was the lucky, fateful twist that brought this image together. It speaks to the core of this series, a claiming of public space for private tenderness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705858802701-86VC2W6NFCEVW9J49AN4/Eva+Brodtkorb.jpg Photographers | D - H - Fiesta Farewell Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I titled this photo "Fiesta Farewell," capturing the aftermath of a lively fiesta in a small Spanish town. In the frame, you'll find a group of people wearing vibrant red and white uniforms, showcasing their active participation in the celebration. There's a subtle weariness in their body language, signaling the end of the festivities. The photo reflects the bittersweet moment of saying goodbye to the joyous event, holding onto the warmth of shared experiences and cultural celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742323561699-9150ID7R3PCB24O4FUOB/gabriellamarino.jpg Photographers | D - H - Disoriented – Spaesati NYC Exhibition, 2025 My photo captures a spontaneous 'collage' that unfolded before my eyes last September: a Latin American tour group was strolling past the Trevi Fountain in Rome under the rain, with umbrellas decorated with Parisian landmarks—clearly souvenirs from a previous stop on their European tour. This moment perfectly illustrates our ever-shrinking world and the increasingly-fleeting nature of our experiences. Everything ends up juxtaposed in our minds. I too am guilty of this, but at least I have my photos to help me reminisce! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742324062440-6DVZACUJWLP6I40C7XKG/Guayi+Fernandez.jpg Photographers | D - H - Sweet Dreams NYC Exhibition, 2025 Amid the relentless hum of subway announcements and ceaseless movement of passengers, this couple slept—serene and untouched by the chaos around them. Their stillness contrasted with the rush, as if they existed in a world of their own. From the front, I saw how light, reflections, and passing figures intertwined, creating an endless perspective of realities and dreams. In a city that never stops, where people board and exit without looking up, lost in their screens, this moment stood apart—a quiet pause in the rhythm of urban life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682112210867-2AW8WFWUDEXXK6597RNG/Heike+Frielingsdorf.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I took this photo during the wonderful Observations Photography Festival in Iserlohn, Germany. As we crossed this playground on our way from one exhibition venue to the next, we noticed this boy wrapped in plastic foil. While my friends went into the exhibition, I stayed at this place for quite a while, observing and taking photos again and again. At first the boy didn't pay attention to me, then there was a point when he registered me briefly, I smiled at him, after that I was accepted and became invisible in a way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711890823307-K835TVWIRJA9S041FUQB/Hyun+Suk+Kim.jpg Photographers | D - H - A Hoopster NYC Exhibition, 2024 Arley, who was turning the hula hoops around in an empty park, wore a white, curly wig and red lipstick. It was lucky that while Aley focused on the hula hoops, I was able to capture Arley's expression up close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755704928935-74S3OTIC3CPTSW6EQDET/Hiroko+Collage.jpg Photographers | D - H - 2026 WSP Artist Residency Winner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755720280046-YUYKFEFBVRJH8A2P6O77/Elena+Garibaldi+Collage.jpg Photographers | D - H - My Journey in Munich Short List for the 2026 Artist Residency My work explores the contrasts and quiet rhythms of urban life. Through strong color, clean lines, and layered compositions, I focus on moments where stillness and motion intersect, where people, architecture, and atmosphere shape the soul of the city. This series is a tribute to myself, to my vision, and to the city that has shaped me. These photos were taken in Munich, the city I moved to in 2020 for what was meant to be just a one-month photographry workshop. But something shifted. I stayed, and that decision changed my life. Over the years, Munich has become my creative ground. A city that may seem quiet and reserved at first glance, alomost too polished or bourgeois, but which, when observed closely, reveals a kind of unexpected energy and theatricality. That contrast is exactly what I love: the calmness of a structured place interrupted by moments of spontaneity, humor, and beauty. I work in both color and balck-and-white, depending on the emotional quality I want to evoke: in color, I tend toward soft saturation with a cinematic, almost analog mood. The tones are in often natural but subtly warm or nostalgic, reinforcing a quiet intimacy. In black and white, my images become more graphic and contrast driven, emphasizing form and gesture over context, often transforming mundane settings into dramatic stage-like spaces. Each photo is built on observations of subtle interactions, fleeting gestures, and how people inhabit the architecture around them. I don’t intervene or direct; I wait. I look for visual tension, a pause in motion, a shadow cast at just the right angle, or an unexpected gesture in a predictable space. These images represent a process of growth, discovery, and trust in myself. They tell the story of someone who stayed and chose to see. And they are also a quiet thank you to the city that welcomed me, challenged me, and helped me become who I am. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755722033142-GFRM8SXQC818YFUZ7BYM/Holly+Burgess+Collage.jpg Photographers | D - H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682110227763-K2G6KZ2O5FV2ZCEGQ311/Danielle_L_Goldstein.jpg Photographers | D - H - Varanasi Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This image was made in Varanasi, India. India is an incredible, vibrant, colorful and chaotic country, and while there I did make images that reflect that reality. But in this image I chose to do what I usually do in street photography; To cut through the chaos and see the order, organization, beauty, and calm in moments of everyday life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609690339089-0ZXQ11S6VHIJDUBCSHZ4/Deborah_Cole-Edit.jpg Photographers | D - H - Frida NYC Exhibition, 2020 In visiting my old neighborhood, which has transitioned to primarily Latinx families, I wandered into a community dance studio where boys and girls were preparing for an upcoming performance of traditional Hispanic dances. Watching the performers, I noticed one particular girl with a flair and attitude that seemed to match the personality of another Latina artist I have always admired. The dancing AND the attitude of this child seemed to grow as the practice progressed. I chose the angle because her attitudinal size was much larger than me (or Frida). BRAVA chica! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770112896376-YNK2N49Y84MENMHVL2BE/Dian+Kurnia+Rizki.jpg Photographers | D - H - Dreams in Flight NYC Exhibitor. 2026 In a fleeting moment where innocence meets ambition, a young boy’s kite frames a soaring airplane above him. The juxtaposition of play and progress bridges two worlds—childhood wonder and human aspiration. Set against a humble rural backdrop, Dreams in Flight captures the timeless yearning to rise beyond one’s horizon. The image speaks to imagination, hope, and the shared human desire to touch the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770113509369-8O872G06DL2W6M9IDTGE/DonnaLancia.jpg Photographers | D - H - Chiaroscuro NYC Exhibitor, 2026 This image was captured at a Metro station in Rome during a fleeting moment when sunlight cast deep shadows on some figures while vividly highlighting others. The dramatic interplay of light and shadow creates intriguing narratives between those caught in the light and those seemingly dissolved into darkness. The illuminated figures appear momentarily exposed, while the figure in shadow feels private and disguised. Together, they create a quiet tension, inviting the viewer to imagine untold stories unfolding within the same shared moment and space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737567089935-D66UEWVOLNI2SZD4ZVO0/Eileen+Busby.jpg Photographers | D - H - Makeup Time Brazil Exhibition, 2025 A woman in a red dress sits on green bench on the Staten Island Ferry on a Sunday morning. Running late for brunch with her friends and, oblivious to the tourists around her, she applies her makeup on the ferry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770195957412-NO1PKTQP7RQCUFOYSFHN/floss_rogers.jpg Photographers | D - H - Summer Storm NYC Exhibition, 2026 It was a hot summer evening on the pier, a storm building nearby. I watched a father and son laughing as the dad tried to convince his son it was time to leave. Their playful banter made me smile. Wrapped in warm evening light with the city behind them and dark clouds gathering overhead, the moment unfolded naturally. It was a scene too beautiful and too human to walk past without capturing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770114543159-XD9CI7Q22MEVSO0SIUSF/fatin_falcon.jpg Photographers | D - H - A Quiet Storm NYC Exhibition, 2026 I visited the Balloon Museum twice. During my first visit, I took hundreds of photos, constantly chasing moments. It was only on my second visit that I stepped back and observed the entire scene, allowing the moments to unfold naturally. That was when I realized how beautiful they truly were. Watching children fully immersed in joy, without any devices in their hands, opened my eyes and reshaped the way I see the world as a street photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682111946181-7PCKESOPED9OC6C53UTR/E%CC%81le%CC%81onore+Simon.jpg Photographers | D - H - Avenida Valparaíso Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 In Viña del Mar, not far from the bus station, an anonymous passer-by, a harsh but beautiful light and an undeniable stroke of luck recompose a lifeless urban landscape into a curious rebus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770113991153-NIUKJA2RPQWP3MKLDRI9/Eleni+Albarosa.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Land of Tammorra NYC Exhibition, 2026 This photo belongs to my long-term project "The lands of Tammorra". We are at Zii Riccardo's estate during the celebration of "Sabato dei Fuochi" ( that happens the first Saturday after Easter) and in the picture we find a moment of rest while the party goes on with dancing, playing music and eating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1679786918613-DNJFXA5MZINNSA2ZO00F/france_leclerc05.jpg Photographers | D - H - Mwila at the Market Virtual Exhibition, 2023 On a late afternoon, a striking older woman from the Mwila tribe arrives at a small market near Lubango (Southern Angola). Mwila women are famous for their necklaces and their hair styled with beads. I was thrilled to see a Mwila woman in a traditional style. As she walks towards me, I decide to photograph her in front of the warm ochre wall to create a strong contrast with her colorful garments. As I look thru my lens, I realize that the people behind me are creating shadows on the wall, which I then include in my image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711889027574-HB9M2ZYNWKJN4HTR4A76/Gillian_Peckham.jpg Photographers | D - H - Waiting for the Subway NYC Exhibition, 2024 It was a Thursday night in NYC, and this young woman was waiting for the subway. I was drawn to the contrast between the gritty, dirty subway and her graceful beauty. I was also drawn to the color palette – the saturated blue-green color of both her dress and the iron post. I find backs can be very expressive, and hers, being so exposed, even more so. I made the photograph right before the train arrived – she got in and left the station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770197311623-H7X1TB6SNSA991DHLDRQ/gwilengrace.jpg Photographers | D - H - Between Day and Night NYC Exhibition, 2026 This photograph was taken at Santa Monica Pier during a fleeting moment when the day quietly gave way to night. I had stopped to watch the sunset, one of those evenings when the sky seemed to slow down, holding its colors a little longer than usual. As the light faded, my attention shifted to a vendor beneath a rainbow umbrella, still working while most people drifted away. The contrast stood out: softness of sunset against persistence of labor, color against approaching darkness. What compelled me was that in-between space—where leisure fades, work continues, and life quietly carries on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682111016492-DI52A31GUIT1D4J5VJWO/Diana+Rybakova.jpg Photographers | D - H - Women On The Subway / Generations Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 The photo was taken in the Moscow metro. Elderly woman about 80 years old, reads a book in a special cover (a tradition from the Soviet Union - these reusable covers kept books in good condition). The second woman, 45-50 years old, is talking to someone on an old push-button telephone. And in the center of the photo sits a new generation with smartphones. I thought it was very symbolic to take this picture with my old film camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1775131312936-MEADZFHL84V49DHCB8W8/Dominika+Piskorz.jpg Photographers | D - H - saudade SPAIN EXHIBITION, MAY 2026 I grew up in Łódź, and I think I left a piece of myself there. I spent my days wandering the streets, watching people pass by. This is where my journey with street photography really started, but without the camera and without knowing it was actually street photography. To me, this is what Poland feels like: eternally grey, with everyone looking in a different direction, always searching for something, even if we don’t exactly know what it is. My memories are made of old factories, the smell of the air, and the smoke over the rooftops; ugly but beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742322437362-SY0XF22UYW1XSHX4FVLL/eleonore_botton.jpg Photographers | D - H - Woman in White NYC Exhibition, 2025 This photo was taken in Japan, specifically at the Meiji-Jingu Shrine in the heart of Tokyo. I visited this sanctuary, where the serenity contrasted with the hustle and bustle of Shibuya’s streets, hoping to witness a traditional wedding. The moment moved me, with the contrast of colors and the light that filled the sacred space. I wanted to share the solemnity of this ceremony, a reflection of Japan’s rich cultural heritage, while highlighting the majesty of the woman in white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737567477243-H691T0QP1Q1XVL4KFFG7/Elsa+Lebaratoux.jpg Photographers | D - H - Secret Garden Brazil Exhibition, 2025 The photo was taken in Paris. My eye was immediately drawn to the plants and the wallpaper behind the shop window. When this person approached, I loved how his reflection blended into the decor to become one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737568300416-EC5RM239W9OE74IMPCZI/Eva_Desmaris_original.jpg Photographers | D - H - I Hear You Brazil Exhibition, 2025 That spot is one of my favorite places in Vienna, on the Ring, the grand boulevard encircling the historic city center, offering a view of Vienna's castle. I visited in October when the warm autumn sun created beautiful shadows on the walls. I noticed the shadow of a thin trunk with leaves forming a roof. A girl passed, talking on her phone, her shadow trailing behind. Around the trunk of the tree, another shadow appeared, hinting at a passerby. The interplay of light and shadow caught my eye—I had to capture it, leaving the moment open to imagination and storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1650295946098-594R6L6KSST30BRPXHM6/eva_mallis.jpg Photographers | D - H - Cirque de la Plage NYC Exhibition, 2022 I was strolling along the Coney Island beach, when I came across a woman with beautiful tattoos on the gymnastics bar, training for the circus. I marveled at her tremendous strength and talent. My lens began to fill in with others either exercising or watching the circus babe. I waited patiently, hoping everyone would align perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1547080872604-553ZYFR2BOA68W2UUBBJ/FDilek1.jpg Photographers | D - H - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 My photo was captured in Sultan Rushy in Kayseri/Turkey. This place lays down in the piedmont of the imposing Mount Erciyes and actually called as a heaven for birds. It ıs not only heaven for birds, also for one who wants to have a break from stressful daily life. You can find a peace in the twitter of the birds and even feel the freedom of the wind by riding horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1743182121264-ZF31SNM52M1CC2CRPYZ5/Screenshot+2025-03-28+at+1.14.22+PM.png Photographers | D - H - And You Shine, Though India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This photo is part of a on going project with the name of the verse by the italian poet Pasolini: "They teach you not to shine. And you shine, though". Its aim is to focus the attention on young women and all the obstacles and struggles they have to overcome to built "a room for their own" in this society. In this pic, a young girl and an old lady are watching themselves in two different mirrors, a real one and a memory one. A distance between what the girl is and what the woman would have liked to become. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651522997351-2MQ9VEEYX1DO3FUC7U52/GwenJulia1.jpg Photographers | D - H - The Soul of Hope NYC Exhibition, 2022 Noise, energy, movement: these are some of the things that one would expect from an American parade. I came upon a town that was holding such a parade, the first since COVID hit. However, as three pageant women waited on a vintage car to enter the parade line, everything was unusually still, almost frozen in time. My intent was to capture the emotion between expectation and calm to provide a hypnotic sense of tension. These women are framed with two vehicles, the truck symbolizing their journey ahead and the camper representing shared adventure, friendship, and our social nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682112520484-IJSMYGMPW61MVJ0RY750/Helena+Bezecna.jpg Photographers | D - H - Old Lady in the Café Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 The elderly lady attracted my gaze. She was lonely and charming. The personified soft kindness in the hard rectangular world. https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/new-index daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652200075024-VB8R0DB1U3TN4SAQ964H/robin_venturelli.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Estonian Holiday NYC Exhibition, 2022 I was traveling through Estonia in June 2019 when I came across this bathing beauty. I wasn't sure if the barbeque was hers and if she brought any food to cook. I noticed her folksy cushion placed on top of the blanket. It struck me that she was sitting quietly in a large field without any reading material or cell phone to occupy her time. In addition, it was a very bright day, yet she lacked sunglasses. It made me feel that she must have been content with the simple things in life: sunshine, quiet, and a day of rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652201509314-P2IJZ0E5K6Z4OB1I2GVU/SunnyQuintero1.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Light in the Darkness NYC Exhibition, 2022 This image was taken during the first massive show in the zocalo of Mexico City after 1 year of pandemic where everything was canceled. A girl walked with balloons of light in the middle of the people while the traffic light reflected the green light on her face. With all the context, I could only feel at that moment that not only was the light perfect for a photograph, but also the meaning of hope that this little light gave me in the dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1614727164944-4ZXUZXLP5G66OYRN2I1L/xenia_petrovska.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Personal Space Trieste Photo Days Exhibition, Italy, 2020 This photo captured a moment of human presence in the self-affiliation which isn't violated by anyone else: the possibility of human's inside harmony with oneself, created by the peculiar charm of solitude. Maybe this state of being helps us to cognize and evaluate ourselves, or to comprehend our own significant value. It also can help us to view ourselves from outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673037175790-J3X9H6BERVOU1UMI12YV/samanegholamnejad.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Come Back Home India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1572903543924-K5J7FZJO5UCSEAX5UTEE/simonetta_cavazza_bspf13.jpg Photographers | R-Z - I Piaceri della Tavola Brussels Street Photography Festival, 2019 This picture is part of a series I named: “Le Madame.” “Madama” in my area is the local way to define the oldest married woman in the family whose surname she bears. Unlike the “madamin,” a young bride, the “madama,” by definition, no longer lives in the shadow of her mother-in-law, but carries the responsibility of the family. In my imagination, she is no longer young, not necessarily well-off and refined, but still strong in energy and personality, humor, and personal elegance. She has wrinkles no longer hidden, white hair, even when dyed, a body that hardly but inevitably surrenders to age, but the desire to move forward does not fade. With a mixture of relief and regret she stopped being the object of male desire and feminine envy: she is free to be herself and nothing else. She stopped pursuing fashion, but wishes to have a very decent look while she faces the many commitments she still has in life. The “madame”are the most invisible category of women to the eyes of the photographers used to capturing beauty and youth. Reggio Emilia (Italy), 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673041456891-746ZLJTS7FCSPEMWY0CW/yasaman+dehmiyani+%2854%29.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 Women attending the Tehran demonstration marking the 1978 anniversary of the American embassy's capture by revolutionaries. The women wearing chador chanting in support of Iran's government were seated together, and the morning light fell on their faces. Some of the women weren't chanting but were simply present, as if they didn't know what was right and wrong. 04/Nov/ 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673041976523-88EV265TXO4VEDCVE2R6/RimitaSen.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Destiny Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This was taken in Sonepur Fair, which is supposedly Asia's Biggest Cattle Fair. There are people who visit the fair on the occassion of the karthik purnima—the full moon—in order to get there sins washed away in the holy Sone River. This person with his group was sitting inside of a plastic sheet to protect himself from the cold air. The person's eye along with the plastic sheet flowing through his forehead made me think about Destiny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673042416182-5J7I702SFK32E7VQ7ZY6/ChEBpXag.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - The Jump of Confidence Special Exhibition of 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 One day in winter while passing through the narrow lanes besides the ghats, a monkey sitting at the edge of a terrace caught my eye. His actions made me thing he might jump off from one side of the street to the other. I was quick enough to get myself ready to capture it. This jump made me realize that many times the people who see us don't believe in us because they lack confidence in our actions. But if you are confident in yourself, you can break free people's opinions and achieve your goals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673111337339-FF21HK2FII5A5WEVB0BQ/sarmisthabera.jpg Photographers | R-Z - A Misty Morning Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 It was a wonderful, foggy morning at Rishikesh, a place well known for its spiritual and religious activities. The ambience was very calm and peaceful, and people were worshipping the holy Ganges. It was a refreshing walk along the banks of the river. I love how the flying bird entered my frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673117997095-T0BCMKEMB31MC984XZT0/shikha_sood.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Solace Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 Marine Drive in Mumbai is the best place for people to hangout and have a good time with family and friends. We can often find people taking a stroll, jogging, sitting on the fence, watching the waves, and enjoying the cool evening breeze. Day or night, this place is always vibrant and lively. Perhaps people come here to get away from their claustrophobic lives and worries, living in the moment, finding their own space and solace somewhere between these small concrete rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641754261086-6EFGPT21YGUMFQWKNCMX/Shweta+Argarwal.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673043192516-SSCQYHNTFHAMJ3CIQ5AM/Soma_Dutta.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Brink of Balloons Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This was taken at 6 pm in the middle of a Carnival Grouch of the Chath Puja Mela Ground that is spiritually inspired by a ritual called “Chath Puja” where one’s soul is offered to the eternal energy source of our universe. A balloon seller scouts for prospective buyers in a virtual playing field of light & shadow. The trajectory of light travels through multiple layers and enters the minuscule world inside the balloons to brighten every airy component, resulting in creating silver bricks around the balloons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609876317231-YF9JO91T68QZT1JBNE8L/suhithashetty.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Tattoo Man Has Come to Town NYC Exhibition, 2020 The tattoo artist is a small-time celebrity of sorts in this small village near Pune, India. Crowds gather around him waiting for their turn to get themselves a tattoo in the local village fair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673118257210-RVD46J6RP27G9F30V9FM/shirinkaran1.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Morning Scenes in Varanasi Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1674657464965-CRJIH9UT1H182SCV7B6R/Tejal+Mewar.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Hell Well 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This image was taken at a water park where the riders were enjoying the water ride, and viewers were enjoying watching them standing on a high ramp. Riders were sliding through a tunnel, and at the end they were dropping in the pool through the hole in the bowl. I wanted to show this very thrilling ride experience through my photos where I tried to show the rider and the shadow of the viewers falling in the bowl showing their presence there. I liked the action, expression of the riders, color contrast and the shadow play there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680293330353-42TRCCTKYPQCSMW68OGE/sandraramirezgiraldo02.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Windows Virtual Exhibition, 2023 The eyes of the soul of the house. That small changing window that reveals, while protecting, secrets, desires, stories. Border picture of the intimate and the public. moments. Just moments. Crossing furtive glances. Closing of blinds. Lowering of curtains What is hidden? What is it that you want to show or glimpse? What is it that one seeks to find inside and outside or, better, through this threshold, this window? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680294148551-4WGBTMCWM6WQKXLVA0R4/teddy_eliz020.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Pride 2022 Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I was wandering through the downtown Greensboro, North Carolina LGBTQIA+ Pride celebration with my Nikon camera, stopping to photograph an impromptu vogue battle. While kneeling there, I noticed a drag performer behind me, towering over me. Their majestic, peaceful look repeated in the faces of the two people behind and beside them. I noticed how the leafy green tree above mirrored their eye shadow and feathery lashes. Everything felt connected, with transcendent eyes focused on something above and beyond what the rest of us could see. And also mystery in the smile. I clicked before the moment was gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680295325040-EQ4Z35MFH4EQHBPZVV8T/tracey_suba02.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Get Involved Today! Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Captured on the streets of Toronto in November, I was amused by the three blue rabbits trying to warm themselves in the sun. The text and colour of the posters plastered on the wall behind them added to the humour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680295801875-6V8PBDOD1XDFWBSBWWDV/vickyflores02.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Eternal Love Virtual Exhibition, 2023 As we went inside BC Ferries to find a spot to sit, I stumbled upon this couple who were enjoying each others' company by napping. Luckily, I have my Yashica with me and a bar stool in the ferries' canteen. At first, I thought, I couldn't make the shot because I have poor fluorescent lighting. So, I stood on the bar stool, composed my camera settings and angle, and held my breath to prevent a camera shake. After the shot, I watched them napping with the great sunset and thought about my grandparents back home. I miss them dearly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680296049161-JHJV3B3RHI3KFKC4PMZY/zohreh_saberi002.jpg Photographers | R-Z - CHILDREN Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Children playing in an oil field, near “Maroon” village. In most villages, there are only elementary schools and because of long distances to bigger villages in which guidance and high schools are found, and also because of high expenses for traffic, these children leave schools and stay at home. Most of them have a lot of enthusiasm for learning but they are obliged to accept this situation. Finally, the girls will marry in low ages and boys will either be idle or work in low wages jobs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683212419715-5O4FFQKPUE5RT9K3HTMS/l4fXHzhI.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2023 When I look at a person, I see a story. I imagine what their house looks like, what books they read, what are their dreams. This man caught my attention. He evoked some kind of warmth in me, jazz and poetry. When a person is in a big city, they can have a feeling of being invisible. I knew he wouldn’t notice me. As I was going to press the shutter button, he looked right at me. Our worlds connected, and one sight ended the anonymity of the crowd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680292712240-7JVYEX8E5Y5X983T8EU3/roshani_shah03.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Beauty of Light Virtual Exhibition, 2023 This photograph is from Varanasi, India. A man is during his daily morning laundry activities at the Ganges River. I saw his shadow formation on the fabric because of the severe light, waited for a perfect moment and clicked when most of the body formed a shadow on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683216621550-EE4AEJRLS7409STP7ET5/wvJ6fckA.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - D-System NYC Exhibition, 2023 This is a picture that represents one of the responsibilities of a mother: teaching her child to fend for herself. They don't have a dryer, so the roof will do. The cloths are thrown and recovered with a long stick after drying. It is a moving picture that teaches us that we must never give up and always look for solutions despite the difficulties. Photo taken at Antoetra Ambositra Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546922311415-0OH2I065RV9C5SQASV11/sebastian_sofia.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 I took this picture in Washington DC in 2018, during the Chinese New Year celebrations. It was a cold winter morning, but the sun was bright. I was walking around when I noticed a spot where the sun’s rays were uniquely aligned. I got excited and stuck around. It was crowded. But I waited patiently to capture the right arrangement of light, shadow and people. I took a few frames but this one stood out for me because of how the light and shadows accentuate the sense of separation and isolation in a crowded context with so much energy and movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641757368388-LH5X6Z024820656YXC82/Tebani+Slade8.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October, 2021 I came across this monkey sitting proudly on the roof of a home above the Spice Markets in Old Delhi, India. He sat looking straight at me as if he new I was about to take his photo. And just at that instant a shadowy image of a man appeared in the doorway. It was one of those moments when things fell into place and then a second later it was gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683217846626-WGQRGLFA4T52H8J9R4SC/HWFtFtAY.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Economy Class NYC Exhibition, 2023 In the midst of a beautiful winter morning at Lahore Railway Station, a train was preparing to depart with passengers bustling about, purchasing snacks for their journey. Amidst the commotion, an elderly man caught my attention. He was visibly eager to obtain the daily newspaper, and once he had it in hand, he sat by the window and eagerly began to read. This simple act reminded me that regardless of social class, every citizen has a keen interest in staying up-to-date with current events. While electronic media may be fast, the allure and charm of reading a newspaper remains undeniable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683218212634-POJ9JB2EXAO8DAMQMVL4/2WcC7FKU.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Pausing to Text? NYC Exhibition, 2023 In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in NYC, I visited the Guggenheim to develop a presentation about Frank Lloyd Wright and the museum for a class. While many of my photos were focused on the architecture of the building, I couldn’t help but be curious about my fellow museum patrons. I began to create a series of photos on museum visitors. Was the man in the red jacket taking a photo, texting a friend, or perhaps sending a work email? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691414968222-35G0079O1TNB820GWQV1/Sinsee+Ho.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Summer Rhapsody Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 This shot was taken in Kuala Lumpur on one evening when the sun was still strong. There is a play of light and shadow as well as a glass reflection on this scene. A boy passed by, and when he put up his hand to cover his forehead, his gesture closely resembles the mannequin’s hand touching its sunglasses at the background - it’s that magical split second moment when I’m happy to click the shutter. The feeling was like a summer song being played. The end result is a poetic one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1556341250102-YCZHFA3F85S2KJRD4NL6/ximena_echague08.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Kumbh Mela PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705866355533-K0Y6S67S0MEF6UMZ6ER3/Rachel+Clayton.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Golden Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 This shot was taken at the annual Melbourne Cup Carnival–the biggest day of horse racing in Australia–in a marquee area called the 'Birdcage.’ This woman was having her photo taken by three photographers, so I snuck around the back of her to get the fascinator next to the yellow building and against the backdrop of the sky, making her fascinator look like the sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705866953218-ZMVXFZFR6FIUEZ2SD7UQ/Sareh+ArjamFekr+.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Autumn Cleaning Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 Right in the heart of the city there is a neighborhood called Islamabad. The neighborhood, located at the border of the affluent area in the Northern part of the city, is deprived of the key urban facilities. In spite of the fact that the residents' suffering persists due to the lack of facilities and living in unsafe houses located in very narrow alleys, life goes on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705872977144-W1Y0MQ9EHUQ2XBOZ81MX/Stephanie+Armenta.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Woman in Red Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 We were on a train in London. The woman stood out with her red sweatshirt. I was trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, and I snapped the photo, pretending I was capturing something out the window, but she looked right at me. I must not have been that sly. When I looked at my camera to see the photo, I felt I had caught her intensity from that stare. It was the only one I got of her. I felt lucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705873491097-63W6GHNQN5ESVKXFMAK4/Tracy+Habenicht.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Gentleman Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I was drawn to the large, orangish-red light hanging in the outdoor entrance to a skyscraper in downtown Oklahoma City, OK. I planted myself by the curb and took photos as people walked into the building, hoping for just the right character. I chose this distinguished-looking man, in part, because his dark-blue suit complemented the color of the light fixture. I also liked the gesture of his hand in his pocket and how the dome of his head echoed the shape of the light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705874275588-01E5O8IPMM0GTS88IIUC/Yulia+Kapustynska.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Way Home Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 It was a hot summer day. Two sisters were playing in the field. One of the sisters, tired, walked home barefoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652137103058-Y70F10TNV8RBVLXOMJUE/randymatusow573.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Two Women with Harlequin NYC Exhibition, 2022 As a newcomer to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, in 1986, I used my camera to engage with the community. The neighborhood streets were lively places to gather. I wanted to capture that warmth and openness. Now, years later, I find myself connecting with people on screens instead of stoops. I posted this photo to an online photography community and was contacted by the granddaughter of one of the women. She wrote me about her strong, smart, and kind grandmother who owned several businesses in the neighborhood and was respected by all. I was touched that this passing moment has a lasting story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609872315074-L2FYRPR5H7EOPLTYFVMA/Sandra_Jetton-Edit.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Coney Island Winter NYC Exhibition, 2020 On a brutally cold winter day, the only activity on the Boardwalk was an old woman feeding a flock of seagulls. Despite a feeling of desolation on this stretch of the beach, I sensed she felt a bond with her "friends.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1565622908462-D76MB6CFP7YQ2Z7TN99U/Sonia+Goydenko.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Sailing Away I took this photo a few months ago at The Frick Museum. I had watched this elderly man for a while and when he sat down to rest I couldn't resist photographing the juxtaposition of the painting and his frailness. To me, it represented a sort of dream; a person's desire to sail away somewhere, but their body rendering them physically incapable of it. So he just sits and waits while the world is sailing away behind him. I am drawn to photographing the elderly. I think that is due to the little attention they receive from people. I often see them ignored by those around them, even their own children and grandchildren. People often forget that behind their wrinkled, frail faces there is still a vivacious, lively person with stories, desires, and wisdom to share. Growing up I always had a very deep connection to my grandparents and often documented their stories using video and photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609879827288-0KRVH7GDRL3QDLUP6TOJ/virginia_hines.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Jodhpur Blue City, 2020 NYC Exhibition, 2020 This scene slowly built over 15-20 minutes. At first, there was only the disabled man repairing a watch on his stoop. Then the old lady appeared and began energetically drying saris. The other woman popped her head out the upstairs window, and finally the cow walked by to complete the tableau. I've heard famous street photographers say patience is essential. In this case, that approach paid off with a photo so full of improbable details that it almost suggests a fairy tale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1712005876979-98B9JDDVE8OENCZI8UAA/SophiaTsoumaki.jpg Photographers | R-Z - A Different Christmas NYC Exhibition, 2024 A day after Christmas, I visited a hot springs area well known as a sacred healing place in ancient Greece. The place was full of immigrant families celebrating Christmas their way. Some were Ukrainian, others from Georgia. I was moved that they had found shelter for their wounds in this sacred area and honored and relieved to be present in their union, especially as it was mirrored in their children’s bodies and faces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1712009199600-HSHFHMOPSS3IZ227E6HZ/UshiGrant.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Polka Dot Bikini and the Man in the Hat NYC Exhibition, 2024 On a visit to Sydney, I ended up at the stunning location of Bronte Beach and its rock pool built into the sandstone cliffs surrounding it. I saw man sitting quietly against the textured cliffs when the woman in the spotted bathing suit and retro sunnies came into view. I quickly grabbed this moment of interaction between the two of them, which somehow reminded me of a scene from a vintage film noir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609949282980-KTFGFF7P0RUXA79QWOC7/Zer+ErdoganRawFinal.jpg Photographers | R-Z - I’m Drawing My Dreams on This Wall, Don’t Erase It! NYC Exhibition, 2020 I saw children playing hide and seek, and this girl was alone. It was like a scene from my childhood, so magical for me. I was drawing my dreams on the walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722978971629-M10BGX1Q42YLAPRJF3C4/Renate+G%C3%BCnther.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Caleta Sunset Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 It was sunset at one of my favorite beaches in Andalucia, and I tried to catch the long shadows of the people sitting in the fisherman's bar. The red sunset gleamed on the yellow wall. It was a magical light, and I was lucky the woman walking by turned her head at the right time and swung her arms so freely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722980020759-PMB4P5T6FC3APEPZ86XS/IMG_8640.JPG Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 This photo was taken one sunny morning on a side street in Kavala, Greece. While searching for shade and contrasts, I paused briefly at this spot and waited for my subject. Finally, her appearance came. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705873960687-AXRVYHOT7O7SU0FIED0T/Vica+Bogaerts.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Egg Seller Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 This photograph captures a scene in Bogra, Bangladesh, where vendors have established their shops along the railway. What particularly caught my attention was the abundance of eggs on display in the bright sun. Intrigued by this sight, I decided to invest some time waiting for an interesting moment. Eventually, as the egg seller made a move, a fly landed on one of the eggs, creating a composition that brought the entire scene together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595961538361-DWK9325WORT63N3TD903/rose_vandepitte007.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 While walking the streets of Harar I saw this little boy playing football, a cute simple scene. Thought of taking a few shots but knew I had to be quick and it’s when I pressed the shutter that his flipflop came off and swung through the air … It was a funny moment for both of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1738163656956-FWQLYPVBK77Q7NBARHTU/Rosella+Tapella.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Thermal Bath Brazil Exhibition, 2025 I took this photo in Pantelleria at the Mirror Lake of Venus, one of the most evocative places on this magical Italian island. Its color that goes from light green to turquoise and the silence that surrounds it will lead you into a surreal dimension. It is the extinct crater of an ancient volcano where the waters are hot and full of sulphur, and the seabed is covered with thermal mud with exceptional beneficial properties for the skin. The woman, lost in her thoughts, with the thermal mud dripping down her back was perfect to describe that magical atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1738164375676-2X5VYDR3PUS9GNOM9ZSG/Sara+Hylton.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Brazil Exhibition, 2025 A little boy runs along the train tracks outside of Ghum station as the steam-engine toy train prepares to depart in the Darjeeling area of West Bengal, India. I was photographing a story about Tea in the region, it was the end of the day, and I saw the train begin to emit smoke. Very quickly this little boy ran across the track and I photographed three frames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1738165008739-M6IOEWOJ4GZ7VUIQ2IX7/Serena+Clausi.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Soul Brazil Exhibition 2025 My two little girls, who wear the same dress, play chase on the terrace of this Castle: the motionless little sister seems to be reflected in the window, but it is instead the older sister who runs away. With this shot, I talk about the fleeting nature of time and how important it is to enjoy every moment of this strange, wonderful, unpredictable life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1738167300657-YSU4HMDQFN7VOUBQMBT1/Sureita_Hockley.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Peace Brazilian Exhibition, 2025 Peace can be represented in many ways. On this day, just as the sun was beginning to set, I was initially drawn by the light. Communicating over several days through gestures, I had previously photographed and shared images through my camera with this lady, however, it was this moment that engaged my senses, drawing me in to her moment of peace. This is one of a series of street portraits engaging with people in their communities in India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1738168805112-OED7ZNNT58JXEX1707TR/Xiao+Guo.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Crazy Woman Brazil Exhibition, 2025 My aim was to take the viewer into a new realm of female empowerment, inspiring reflection, and a broader understanding of femininity in the twenty-first century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1738169252435-5TJ0SL1I1KV3N01HP1YW/Yani+Clarke.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Blue Boy Brazilian Exhibition, 2025 In Bangkok’s Khlong Toei slums, the air hums with heat and hustle. I caught this moment on instinct—a boy in motion, a car at rest. The colors struck first, bold blues and reds against the grit of the street. But it’s his glance that lingers, half-curious, half-guarded—a snapshot of resilience in a place where life never pauses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680293865290-776DBJVZWKVXW9Y80ERC/sarah_simon02.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I was excited to be out shooting street photography in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, when these women and I nearly collided. In a split second I knew I loved their style, confidence, and vibe, and snapped the shot. I love how they blend in with the energy, the movement, and background of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1581703633766-LQVSPUKCPK5DN6H0M3EO/sigrid_debusschere_cotton_candy.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Cotton Candy, Circus Renz NYC Exhibition, 2019 This picture is part of a series I made about the daily life in small circuses. A series about living together in a traveling company and hidden feelings. In my photos I try to capture the moments that are not part of the show. The instants they think nobody is watching them anymore. I like taking pictures in those tiny and dark tents. Photographing cotton candies in these circumstances is very rewarding because of the way the light is captured by the transparent sweets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742409403415-HHZ68A1W5KUNOTR1DSDQ/sylwia_ciszewska_peciak.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Lady with a Hair Clip NYC Exhibition, 2025 This photograph captures the quiet, unspoken essence of belonging. The white hair, illuminated against the shadows, symbolises wisdom, age, and a life full of stories, reflecting ties to a generation, family, or community shaped by shared experiences. In a world that often feels divided, this image reminds us that belonging can be intimate and personal, a quiet presence that speaks of connection, time, and identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609877684111-7UEX1W8Q4O25XO81KPLV/syndi_pilar+%281%29.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Ruby's, Coney Island NYC Exhibition, 2020 One of my favorite summer getaways during the pandemic was to take the empty subway out to Coney Island and walk the boardwalk with my camera. It was so windy on this particular day, the sand was blowing everywhere, and the seagulls were going nuts, dive bombing passers-by for any morsel of food they could get. It was total chaos. I love this image, because it reminds me of something out of Hitchcock's "The Birds.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742409920906-8IY98BVNBAB3J80LQ1M7/yuliia_kozyrkova.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2025 Everywhere we go, we carry the weight of our emotions, our past, and the stories we often leave untold. I captured this moment of solitude—just a young man, a cup of coffee, and his thoughts amid the movement of the city. In the stillness, I wonder: what is the story he holds in his silence? The one he carries with him everywhere—the one I can see reflected in his eyes? Street photography is about these fleeting, unspoken moments, where a single frame can reveal the depth of a human soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742594721980-SN5GI4XWJDVVOXTX4RJF/Renata+Dangelo.jpg Photographers | R-Z - UFO Brazil Exhibition, 2025 An ordinary summer day in 2023, on the beach of San Pere Pescador. Two ladies enjoy the moment, when a child's lost flying float enters the scene. Me in the water. I have been lucky enough to inmortalize this surreal moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546929682439-K49NQXLLSKWPLD0UGIVI/susana_barbera_nyc.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 That place was my meditation spot. I used to go there sit down and literally wait for the Universe to surprise me. That day was really special cause many people came, i shoot many pics but when i got this one i felt totally connected. The circle of life. Getting ready, Falling, getting up and trying again. As years pass by you recover faster and take less time on the getting ready or getting up...♥️ Its all about trying and falling ♥️ 1 month after a big storm came and took away all that. That magic spot is not there anymore. But before he left he gave me this beautiful gift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742406915104-ZZV2B6NVXYCMX60SDV9B/SarahGarland_In+between-1.jpg Photographers | R-Z - In Between NYC Exhibition, 2025 This image was taken in the Tate Modern, London, of a family sitting silently together. They were not talking. The position of the girl between her parents–between childhood and adulthood–seemed very charged, her plait making a break for freedom. For me, there was great power in this young woman, though I could not see her face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1614725828245-CSXGHF0V5RNO1A87VFRU/sylviemoyen.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Far Away From the Lights Trieste Photo Days Exhibition, Italy, 2020 Walking through the street markets in the countryside of Bahia it is possible to see, hear, touch the essence of the Brazilian soul. There, far away from the lights, the rush, the competition, the technology that disconnects us, a truer Brazil emerges: strong, simple, supportive, wise. In the heart of the Chapada Diamantina, I made an essay with the desire to document this part of my country that most of the time reaches us, inhabitants of the urban centers, in a distorted manner: sometimes despised, sometimes exploited, sometimes transformed into exotic product for consumption. I was always a quiet and patience person. I don't mind waiting, I love to observe the routine of the market, people walking around. I saw this lady selling cloth and I stood there for quite some time until this colorful scene emerged in front of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742844262129-FC6VTLYZ1MPRNNYI2BA6/wsp.roopshasamanta-1.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Golden Streets NYC Exhibition, 2025 I was walking past the normally unremarkable Penn Station Plaza when the extraordinary light drew me in. It enveloped everyone and everything in the plaza—passersby, bystanders, silhouettes, shadows, and reflections—in a warm, golden embrace. How magical! I made many memorable photographs that day, but this one of a group of women remains a personal favorite. I realized there are streets of gold everywhere in New York; all one has to do is pause and look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1735845909788-EY0NZJZ1UUN2KJCDBH0G/9DF9CFA1-3970-4A26-BB82-B5B37FB5E414.PNG Photographers | R-Z - 2025 Artist Residency Winner Artist Statement: Photography is my way of capturing and sharing how I see the world. Street photography fascinates me, because it captures real, unposed moments of everyday life. These candid images, illuminated by natural light and framed by the city’s movement, allow me to document the true essence of my community. I love that street photography is spontaneous and honest—often, my subjects are unaware of my camera, allowing me to capture their genuine experiences and emotions. Photography helps me express what I find difficult to say in words. Through my street photography, I tell stories with a single image. My work focuses on people, especially women and the interplay of light and shadow, capturing the timeless charm of everyday life. Each photo is like a piece of history, preserving the spirit of neighborhoods and the people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My photography reflects the stories of daily life, capturing those moments that define a community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705867135449-L9EHEOU446BQGF21XLOC/Sonia+Simbolo.jpg Photographers | R-Z - What Are You Thinking? Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 Istanbul, the city of my heart. It overwhelms you, crushes you, tears away the carapace of your certainties. In this incomprehensible din, I am alone, lost in these streets full of glances. Nailed to another you that you don't know, emerging from who knows where. But if you accept the challenge, you become yourself. What remains is the languor of an incomprehensible melancholy that only belongs to goodbyes. Not to the city, but to your past. And also at your gaze, mysterious woman in the photo. Are you also looking for yourself without knowing it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755880273726-G2IER6FX84YY0E5POP7U/Saskia+Kahn+Collage.jpg Photographers | R-Z 2026 Artist Residency Short List Artist Statement: My belief in collective memory and shared experiences compels me to photograph strangers, a practice I’ve engaged in naturally since the age of fourteen. For the past decade, I’ve returned to the beaches of Brooklyn, New York, to create environmental portraits. My family’s displacement from a seaside town in Latvia during World War II shaped my fascination with the landscape. I photograph people on the beach as a way to savor a place that has offered respite and restoration to many New Yorkers. These portraits are made moments after encountering a stranger. I wait for a specific connection, however brief, that allows for a genuine and shared pause from the world outside the viewfinder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1614720107383-6JVOGWYY9KG5ER4BUL87/sandra_hernandez.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Trieste Photo Days Exhibition, Italy, 2020 Taken at sunrise during a boat trip on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. In the distance, the movement of the people seemed like a dance rehearsed for a long time. A chaos in harmony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755887586730-1919AL7TBEI2YV1E2LNK/Susanne+Bartels+Collage.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Mundo Aparte 2026 WSP Artist Residency Short list Artist Statement: IG: @susanne_bartels_photoartist Artist Statement: I am a photographic artist based in Munich, Germany, working at the intersection of street photography and conceptual narrative. My focus lies on human presence, emotional truth, and the quiet complexity of life as it unfolds in public. I photograph forgotten corners, raw edges, and gestures that often go unseen. My camera is a listener. I do not take photos—I create emotional translations of reality. My submitted project, “Mundo Aparte,” was created in La Perla, Puerto Rico—a place that felt like another world, layered with pain, pride, music, resistance, and overwhelming beauty. What began as curiosity became a deep emotional connection. I climbed down from the old city wall of San Juan into this barrio and was struck by the poetry and power of what I found. People surviving with grace. Community built on rhythm and resilience. I returned eight weeks later and felt like I belonged. I photographed with love and presence, trying to do justice to this “mundo aparte”—a world apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711993786780-NG6ZZQP5O3AJ3791QJBD/sally_coggle.jpg Photographers | R-Z - While I Wait NYC Exhibition, 2024 Istanbul, Galata Bridge. We were both mesmerized by the beauty of the afternoon light, me on her and she on the sunset over the Bosporus. A brief encounter, both of us looking at entirely different things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680292823167-36MVNLMX56K63U01NLF7/sandra_cattaneo_adorno6.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Enmeshed Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I took this picture on a beach during one of my trips. The surf was covered in abandoned nets that twisted all along the shoreline. The light of the setting sun added to the surreal feel of the scene. When I saw the two men coming, my heart thumped. I moved to the side slightly and framed them through the meshes of a protruding net. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683213745733-AF1JHEJIZNA6A6ELPFTZ/dwM-XEjY.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Summer Under the Sun NYC Exhibition, 2023 On a sultry day in Budapest (July 2022), water sprinklers throughout the city became magnets for people seeking relief from the heat. I watched and photographed the buzzing hubbub around the sprinklers. Toward the end of the day, a young boy stuck his head under the water and kept it there without moving – a sign of just how much he needed to cool off. I was struck by how the sun illuminated the water drops, creating a shower of light that enveloped his bowed figure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770295261939-Y56ZJMF545L59CQAU6IM/shannonfergus.jpg Photographers | R-Z - The Dive NYC Exhibition, 2026 Photographed aboard an anchored ship in Tortola, this image comes from a series capturing the spontaneous unfolding of an afternoon at sea. Selected for its suspended moment and the brief pause before impact, it reflects joy between strangers and the fleeting freedom found in acts of play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742408527254-E0Y0G9NXMSFWMIDBYFTM/Sharon_Eilon_Tiff_Edited.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Big Mouth Strikes Again NYC Exhibition, 2025 On my first day in Myanmar, I came across a vibrant street food stall where people were eating and chatting. I admired the Thanaka paste many women apply to their faces, as it was the first time I encountered this aspect of Burmese culture. One woman began to feed her son, and I was immediately drawn into this scene of maternal care. I noticed that with each spoonful, the mother opened her mouth in a gesture of encouragement. For me, that small gesture captured the essence of generations of mothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1712004392815-WCHQVE9SR92WK761MQUN/Simona+Galletti.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Medusa's Glance NYC Exhibition, 2024 As an art historian, I often wander around museums in an instinctive search for the visual short circuits or connections that might happen between a piece of art and the viewer. Here, all alone in a dark room in Uffizi, Caravaggio’s “Medusa,” whose glance in mythology can turn a man into stone, seems to mirror herself in a curly-haired passer-by, and that terrifies her, under the attentive and empathic gaze of a woman witnessing the scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705872832737-2BFLWM7KXHFXKKX48RAV/Stefanie++Waiblinger.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 While waiting for the ferry to a Spanish island, I discovered the central bus station where people were waiting, arriving, and departing. I was thrilled by the effect that the strong light made. It was difficult to distinguish between the real people and the figures that were on the glass pane of the waiting area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770296005417-AKBNSUZWR03VKOF87EPW/susan_west.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Kimono Rental NYC Exhibition, 2026 Like many visitors to Tokyo, this woman had donned a rental kimono to visit the Buddhist temple Sensō-ji. She was alone and had posed repeatedly for selfies in the late afternoon light. I followed her, wanting to understand this ritual, as she elegantly and carefully picked her way through a crowd of shoppers near the temple. Then I noticed the tattoo on her neck, which belied her elaborate masquerade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1712007394617-YHKOWJJ2JPJFQ5UH0RX2/SusanaSanchez.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Monday Task, Check NYC Exhibition, 2024 During a period of grief when not even my hobbies were helping, photography included, my therapist encouraged me to go out and take photos after work as part of my tasks of mourning. I set out for a street I like in Madrid where the golden hour is particularly beautiful and took this photo of a downcast man going home after work. I felt very happy and proud. I hadn’t felt that way in a long time. Even at the time I called it ‘Monday Task, Check.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1595962470930-OUI3YY63NXNCKTIL8FRN/susanne_grether7.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Exhibit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 Trieste Photo Days Exhibition, Italy, 2020 I took a journey through India which brought me to the city of Varanasi. Life there begins at dawn. One morning, I visited the mud wrestlers during their daily training. Contrary to what I had expected, hardly anyone spoke. Everyone was very focused on their exercises. It was a very calm, almost meditative atmosphere that prevailed here. I was fascinated that they were so busy with their activities that they hardly noticed anything else. Observations like these have taught me to live in the moment, to concentrate on the here and now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641754450153-GPPJQQ539N57B0MD3FPJ/Thouly+Dosios.jpeg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609878031628-H1HXU5HMLKMDYB5B39JW/toheesiew.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Chand Baori Stepwell NYC Exhibition, 2020 One can get lost in the maze-like Chand Baori, a stepwell in Abhaneri Village, Rajasthan. This impressive stepwell is the most photogenic, unique in design, deepest, and oldest surviving well in India. When one considers India's architectural marvels, many overlooked these stepwells. I saw lovely geometry, lines, and innumerable complex steps built during ancient times. I had to capture this amazing craftsmanship and engineering. When I looked down this 13-story stepwell, I couldn’t help but be mesmerized. To compose this photo, I waited for a human element to enter and connect with the stepwell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1712008466483-41EOU6A5C7WQYWSCJYCM/Tuna+Angel.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Delusion of Duality NYC Exhibition, 2024 I went to London to attend the exhibition "Magnificient Spice Bazaar" by 19 women from Istanbul, held in Yunus Emre Institute on March 8th, 2019. When going around the city, I stopped to take a bus. An elegant mindful lady was also waiting for the bus, and a gentleman with a Dali moustache was standing on the other side of the window full of rain drops. Directing the flash towards the pole of the bus stop so as not to make a flash reflection on the window, I took the shot. The lady's profile on the window was the bonus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770297088002-48EGXISH0BNTHCXI0YZF/valerie_vincienne.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Levitation NYC Exhibition, 2026 The Paris metro system has several ventilation shafts that expel the winds produced by the passing trains. One of them opens in the center of Place Blanche, near the Moulin Rouge. At the beginning of the last month of October, it was rather warm in Paris. Young women were enjoying fanning themselves over the ventilation shaft. Skirts and hair lifted by the rising airflow provoked shouts and laughter. I approached to capture some of that hair magically drawn upwards towards the sky. The poetry of the moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1691413637995-MIAFW68TFRDNH43SY2MY/VanessaAbramowitz.jpg Photographers | R-Z - Untitled Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival and WSP Virtual Exhibition, 2023 As I roamed the streets of NYC, I stumbled upon the Philippine Independence Day Parade and was captivated by the beauty of the traditional attire, music, and dances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1632782180371-TNVOI646GD8K95VVI3FI/regula_tschumi86202.jpg Photographers | R-Z - A Dance of Joy Back cover of the “Women Street Photographers” book When I saw the two 11-year-old girls in the late afternoon they were playing a popular game on a side street in Ghana's capital Accra. Like many other children in their area, the two normally have not much time to play and enjoy themselves, because they have to go school and at home they must help their parents in their daily work. I don't know where their skirts came from, but they are certainly not Ghanaian or African dresses. In Accra, this kind of skirts are sold at the secondhand clothing market, and especially the young girls love to wear them on Sundays in church, or at festivals and family celebrations. While I was observing and photographing the two girls, they were not distracted from my camera, although they had of course noticed me. Maybe my presence made them even more happy and helped to make their game become a joyful dance, along with their beautiful skirts in which they looked like two beautiful ballerinas. This image also was also exhibited with Women in Street in New York and Brussels in 2019. https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/press daily 0.75 2023-04-27 https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/books-by-wsp daily 0.75 2025-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1646752060998-M22HIHXEJ5PBSDELS0GR/Screen+Shot+2022-03-08+at+10.06.20+AM.png BOOKS BY WSP - Metropolis by Melissa Breyer In Metropolis, Breyer turns her lens on the streets of New York, striving to document the city's strange magic and the infinite stories of its inhabitants. 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In contrast, daylight revealed the beauty of those who loved and thrived in burnt-out Bushwick, where she was a public school art teacher who photographed what she saw. Her effervescent images are personal memoir – love letters filled with compassion and humor mixed with angst, kept secret for decades until she retired from teaching. Meryl was headed to Studio54 the night of the ‘77 Blackout; the next day, she and the world heard of Bushwick, a hellish neighborhood where fires and looting erupted. In 2013, at BIZARRE, a Bushwick Drag / Burlesque Nightclub, she noticed a disco ball in the restroom, another over the dance floor. OMG – an epiphany! Bushwick was now THE sizzling club scene. The disparate worlds of Bushwick and Disco collided, becoming intertwining strands of NYC’s story and her journey. She realized the two bodies of work belonged together. Meryl’s internationally acclaimed books, A Tale of Two Cities Disco Era Bushwick (2014) and Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (2015) were just tips of the iceberg. She kept digging into her archive, finding hidden treasures. New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco takes a unique turn, from clandestine clubs into the classroom – students and staff creating a safer space to learn despite societal ills of poverty and prejudice. Her street photos radiate the joys of daily life amidst hardship. The nightlife images expose the edgiest, darkest activities she has ever shown. New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco is a true story of the resilient human spirit. 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Bringing together human and spiritual worlds, she uses landscapes that are rich and mysterious, the way our dreams and meditations might feel, and portraits in which the subject is consumed by nature, swept up by it. Achak seeks to represent the pictorial quality of intuition using imagery that walks the line between rare and familiar. Ultimately, the work invites us to think less, feel more. Deb Achak is an American artist. All the Colors I Am Inside marks the artist’s debut monograph. Hardcover published by Kehrer Verlag, 2023 24 x 28 cm 112 pages 56 color illustrations ISBN 978-3-96900-117-2 Click here to purchase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1704218426188-EZKY6N2EZMWYW31YPOE5/9783969000861_ws.jpg BOOKS BY WSP - Duologues by Nina Welch-Kling The German-born New York photographer Nina Welch-Kling is one of the new voices in Women Street Photography. With her latest work Duologues, Welch-Kling adds an artistic aspect to the genre: by combining two photographs as fixed diptychs, she creates a visual dialogue between two images that open up new dimensions to the viewer. Photographs taken within the blink of an eye unfold through their pairing: a wealth of connections, meanings and aesthetic relations. For the first time, these unique compositions can be enjoyed within the quiet realm of a book’s pages. As Jim Casper, founder of LensCulture, observes: “These diptychs produce visual echoes that evoke new ideas, new meanings, new connections— encouraging viewers to energize their own ways of seeing.” Hardcover published by Kehrer Verlag, 2003 Texts by Christopher Giglio, Jeff Mermelstein, and Gulnara Samoilova 24 x 32cm 96 pages 86 color and b/w illustrations ISBN 978-3-96900-086-1 Click here to purchase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1704226808042-XB0XMPNH53STXI3HZOB5/LAURA%2BREID_AURA_FRONT%2BCOVER_31AUG2022.jpeg BOOKS BY WSP - Aura by Laura Reid - AURA awarded 3rd place at the International Photography Awards in the monograph book category - Aura - The distinctive atmosphere or quality that surrounds and is generated by a place, person or thing. AURA is my first book and illustrates my love of ocean pools, both for photographing and swimming. In producing this book I have regularly been asked the question “Why do I keep photographing ocean pools?” Ocean Pools are my escape. My sanctuary. They’re where I feel grounded. My images reflect my own relationship with ocean pools. The pools I photograph are the ones I also love to swim in. This book is a culmination of images I have taken over the past 7 years during regular visits to ocean pools along the NSW coastline. Each pool has its own aura which is generated by their design, the people who visit them, the differing light throughout the day, and the changing moods of the season. Dive in. Each copy is signed and beautifully wrapped in test print pages from the book making it perfect for gift giving to others or to yourself. Hard cover. 200 pages with 98 images. Published by Love Books, 2023. 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On April 20, 2024, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno unveiled 10 Years at the 7th edition of Personal Structures, which runs parallel with the 60th Venice Biennale. Organized by the European Cultural Centre, the 2024 edition focuses on the experience of foreigners, émigrés, exiled, and refugees, especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North. Throughout her practice, Cattaneo Adorno embarks on journeys around the globe with camera in hand, capturing glimmering flickers of daily life that evoke scenes from a dream, floating between reality and illusion. Click here to order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1731500640195-SLIL471BLSRR1ZZS20LP/IMG_2581.JPG BOOKS BY WSP - Seastone Street by Charlotte Stone Published by Snap Collective Photos and text by Charlotte Stone 192 pages 175 photographs We are, all of us, multifaceted--no one word can describe who we are. The same goes for creativity. As an artist, I am attracted to many different types of photography, from street to landscape—each one as inspiring to me as the other. This book is a culmination of those passions, merging curiosity of human interaction with a genuine appreciation of nature's beauty. 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DIGITAL PROJECTION: Sandra Fine/Ana Paula Di Berardo/Beth Caron/Betty Goh/Dzesika Devic/Ellen Friedlander/Fernanda Gándara/Filipa Leite Rosa/Gloria Salgado Gispert/Hana Fialova/Inge Colijn/Julie Grace Immink/Julie Kerbel/Karen Schlotke/Lauren Spencer Gayeski/Lil Steinberg/Lynne Ellen Kaplan/Mai-Chau Nguyen/Maria Ricossa/Marianna Troeva/Marina Bulduk/Marina Volskaya-Nikitina/Martine Lanser/Nataša Tvrdinić/Never Edit/Pelin Guven/Sara Messinger/Ushi Grant/Xenia Petrovska/Yadira Perez/Simonetta Cavazza PATTI FOGARTY GRANT WINNERS: First place US$500 awarded to Regula Tschumi @regulatschumi Second place US$300 awarded to Andrea Torrei @andreatorrei Third place will US$150 awarded to Farnaz Damnabi @farnazdamnabi The grant money was contributed by local NYC women street photographers (see the list below) and Mark Fogarty. 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Yet, despite their energy and enthusiasm trying to keep up, they had to take breaks, resting under the wooden platform of the truck carrying the musicians and the amplification system. That is how traditions pass on from one generation to another. Samba, with its deep roots in the African diaspora, is the most important music and dance in Brazil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641753626363-FKVDY2LONEJCELTJUEJ4/Maria+Ricossa.jpeg Photographers | M-P - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641759321432-FWGDL7NO8M4U2L0NJIGS/Martha+Driessen.jpeg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Exhibition at the Regional Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Mexico, 2021 This was taken at a comparsa, a neighborhood celebration, during the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is fascinating to engage and blend in, to become one of them and celebrate together in a deeply-rooted tradition in Mexican culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1572902264774-NXSKP2U5DOFXTC1Y71P1/merja_varkemaa001.jpg Photographers | M-P - Cornered Brussels Street Photography Festival, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1651877405733-Y3FLD2C8EG4LW8AGKUS2/MichalTemkinMartinez1.jpg Photographers | M-P - Side Eye on the Subway NYC Exhibition, 2022 This photo was taken during a street photography workshop in NYC. Being from a city without a subway system, I set a goal to capture some images documenting daily life as a passenger. This is one of the first images I took in New York, and the only one where I didn’t have a chance to talk with the subject of my photo — I had just figured out my camera settings when the train pulled in. I reluctantly waited for the doors to close and snapped this image of the passenger noticing my camera and giving me the side-eye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652134036860-CCMW8VN95R9LDEY8ZHHP/MichelleCheikin1.jpg Photographers | M-P - Jamaica, Queens 2013 NYC Exhibition, 2022 This image is from my series, “Queens Surface,” that portrays neighborhoods in Queens that have not yet been gentrified. Walking down this street in Jamaica, Queens, I considered taking a candid photograph of these young men when one of them asked me to take their picture. As I lifted up my medium format camera loaded with film, they struck a pose, using hand gestures. Pausing for a moment, I held up my hand and asked them to relax. Making this new connection through the lens, I clicked the shutter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546920697859-B77UWKQP8RJFPMBF0XEM/orna_naor012.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 This picture was taken during Purim, the Jewish mask holiday; according to the tradition, the orthodox Jews are obliged to be happy and to drink heavily. The young people from Bnei Brak in the picture are celebrating as much as they can. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1614954639742-RNXB8VJUW7SRAAVTVPOX/Mina+Noei+Noshahr-Edit.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Indian Photo Festival, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546920812706-P1FNYKYI2YPAYYCH4HRW/Jansen_Patty.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 The photo was taken close to the "Gare de Lyon" in Paris. It was midsummer, the sun was setting, and the light was very soft with a touch of orange. I was standing on the stairs that led to the station and noticed the shades of passengers on the wall. This wall had a faint blue color, which combined well with the orange light, and there were diverging structured lines that captured the shades in between. Almost immediately after I took out my camera, this woman with hat walked into my frame. I think the lines add to the sense of movement, and together with the shade and colors it results in a soft, romantic image that breathes summer and elegance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641756727795-SKL20T53IBJYX6UU0AOM/meghna_agrawal001.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 It was the time of Covid in 2020, when we all were trapped inside our houses. One afternoon, it started raining heavily, and I decided to go out. I went on a small walk nearby my home and took my camera along. It was dark and empty. After walking for some time, I saw these guys cycling towards me with a big plastic wraps flowing in the air around them. That’s when I took this shot. It gives me a feeling of mystery and drama with minimum elements in the frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673112924093-VXWHWIWAYSZIH2VCTB3S/moushumeekjha.jpg Photographers | M-P - SHE Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 This photo was taken on the eve of the India Republic Day Celebration, 2015. As I was covering the mega show as a press photographer for print media, this unique moment instantly caught my attention. For me, the lady signifies my country, India. she is old, loaded with rich cultural heritage and history, diverse and yet unshaken. Full of strength and wisdom, she rises like a unicorn from all the challenges every year. Her biggest strength is her own countrymen. The young man looking through the window just made the moment all the more so relatable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673113355852-RN649YOA3GBF17V5JL3A/neharawat_jpeg.jpg Photographers | M-P - The Tribal People of the Desert Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 I took this picture during the Pushkar Fair. it was my first time visiting as a photographer. Pushkar Fair is a place where many stories are seen of the tribal people of Rajasthan. The only thing that grabbed my eye was a girl is doing a cartwheel and the way everyone is gathered around watching her. The scene in the background is actually shows the fair vibe, culture, and life of tribal people and villagers of Rajasthan. I felt I captured the whole fair in one frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673114799482-REM337EEO6ZFBCZ8WQY5/pinkibiswassanyal.jpg Photographers | M-P - The Dog Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 Just a random click because the Dog was sitting on the stairs in an unusual way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673116903155-N8FJO6ZV92QSBKM4CVWG/priti_tiwari.jpg Photographers | M-P - Flying Boy Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 A boy in the midst of the sunset flipping through the skies to perfect his moves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1674656955477-V3V9WHL8FMHDZ18JH1ZZ/pegah_ghadiri.jpg Photographers | M-P - A Delicate Balance Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 On the way to the market, I discovered this painted wall that immediately captivated me. But it wasn't until a few days later that I went back to the site to take photos. As I wanted to attract as little attention as possible, I first observed from afar what the women were carrying on their heads. Only when I saw a good scene coming would I approach the wall briefly and take a few pictures. The photo shown here was one of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680290812031-EKV4JRVGKFV6EC0QUL12/margo_macarthur1.jpg Photographers | M-P - Mood Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I was drawn to the color of this garage and also the clothes of the man - I thought the blue and green played well against each other and against the strong light and shadow of the scene. As I was shooting, all of a sudden, the garage door opened and added a bit of mystery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680291182168-ELWB1GGOWLZJCYFWFEMM/marlenacmilczarek_05.jpg.jpg Photographers | M-P - This is the moment. Virtual Exhibition, 2023 The photo was taken during the annual celebration of Galicka Svadba, a traditional wedding in the Galicnik Mountains in North Macedonia.The weddings in this village were traditionally held on St.Peter’s Day since 1963.The beauty of the wedding is complemented by the traditional clothes of the groom and bride. The photo captures the moment of the bride getting on the horse who will take her to Orthodox Church. The people accompanying the bride are also dressed in traditional clothes and help the bride in the wedding ceremony. This event is a delightful audiovisual phenomenon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680291616606-WQ61PDN9Z0BF1IY5QJQO/melanie_cobham02.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I moved to Australia shortly before the pandemic, unknowingly walking into what would be the most locked-down city in the world. My partner and I quickly found ourselves in a precarious situation, living continents away from our home town, and spending almost three years inside a studio apartment. I was lucky enough to maintain my job in the city centre, for which I needed a special permit to travel past a policed border. What was once the busiest place in the state was suddenly empty, suspended in time. It was a unique and surreal time that begged to be documented. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680291889586-GZHO0SHTUK9QSCQFIHG2/ninia_sabadze06.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 I took this photo in Marneuli, Georgia, at the bus stop. My bus was running late. These two women passed by, without sparing a single glance at each other. These two ghostly figures, floating on their own way seemed interesting to me, against the background of already faded, but still cheerful green wall. This is how I see my country - cheerful and full of hope, and at the same time gloomy and weary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680292502796-ILGGD9ZOZBIBIID06K5Q/priscillafalconmoeller01.jpg Photographers | M-P - Road of Penance Virtual Exhibition, 2023 This photograph is part of my ongoing project ‘La Cajita’, a project that explores the intimate and raw lives, rituals and relationships between ‘El Niño Fidencio’, Mexico´s most famous spiritual healer, and his worshipers. Mourners manifest in various ways their devotion and faith. People roll, walk on their knees and crawl on their backs all through the ‘Road of Penance’, an uphill journey from the venerated Pepper Tree (El Pirul) to ‘El Niño Fidencio’s’ tomb. Worshipers pray for miraculous cures and healings. For many, this is their only and last hope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682115404845-89C8TDLILSORTWA7GA9N/Marguerite+O%E2%80%99Molloy_.jpg Photographers | M-P - Lidl luxury, Dublin, 27.01.2023 Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I stop at these lights everyday, and have made several photographs here, they’re near a local Lidl supermarket in Dublin. Sometimes you spot a person, and they have a certain timeless quality – this person had remarkable elegance, poise and presence. Photographing the back of the head creates an uncanny feeling; there is both closeness and distance. We are both looking in the same direction, waiting together separately - watching, watched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682115969227-TNLNRJ2FUCACRNLUYPJI/Marissa_Reyes_Beckmann.jpg Photographers | M-P - Breaking of the Fast Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 15 jun 2018, 8:00 am. Thousands of Muslim, Indonesian women are gathered to celebrate Eid al Fit -the end of Ramadan- at Victoria Park In Hong Kong. Majority of them work as domestic helpers, with a special migratory status. Leaving their country and families behind to look for a better life (for them), and living at their employer’s houses, they can only rely on each other as a community. I stood in awe, witnessing a massive gathering of celebration and prayer; of chants and silence; of stillness and movement; of sorority and faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682116416683-1M407RM9SF9QJ3BNP0VK/Marjan_Taghipour+%281%29.jpg Photographers | M-P - Waiting Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This photo is about religion and beliefs. showing how beliefs can keep people together far from any differences and contradictions from inside of them is the story behind this photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682116888035-8K5J6J2MNQJ4UTLGKRGT/Mary+Kay+Kirsner.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 Waiting to cross a street in San Miquel de Allende, Mexico, in pursuit of making photos illustrating its unique character, I turned around to see a colorful stack of hats moving towards me. I immediately positioned myself to include as much of the stack as I could above the boy’s hand. As he approached the corner I clicked three photos hoping to get a glimpse of his face, and to also include the younger boy’s hands in the frame. The colorful walls and clothes were ready-made. I felt exhuberant knowing that this was a rare find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682117778797-GUKN4T14MH1VX73C2K2H/Melissa+Breyer.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 NYC steam photos are tricky. The chance of finding an interesting situation when the steam is just right is an elusive endeavor. In this case, however, the subject led me to the shot at the perfect moment. She wore crimson red, drawing me to her like a magnet. Imagine my surprise when she approached a steamy crosswalk with the sun shining its raking light across the scene — and then raised her hand to the brim of her hat. It instantly created a narrative that felt just right … and this time, the steam played along perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683205507741-5U7B27J027NTQX6G9S0C/Meredith+Andrews.jpg Photographers | M-P - Love on the Ferry NYC Exhibition, 2023 This image was taken on the Staten Island Ferry in New York City in May 2022. The juxtaposition of the Staten Island commuters and the tourists trying to catch a glimpse of the State of Liberty was very interesting to me. Being from tropical island destination, the interaction between 'locals" and "visitors" fascinates me. These two lovebirds happened to be standing in an interesting location with the city in the background. They only has eyes for each other, and I was lucky to catch such a romantic moment in a normally mundane situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1583110061790-ODGL1DBM1519V3ITL3UQ/nina_welchkling_sailor.jpg Photographers | M-P - Sailor Brussels Street Photography Festival, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683207200003-AO6VWQGYE5R0ZTY6NAS0/Oksana+Zarovna.jpg Photographers | M-P - Fisherman NYC Exhibition, 2023 My son Mark is 15 years old. He loves fishing, and I often accompany him. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we moved to France, to the seaport city of Le Havre. The passion for fishing helped my son to adapt to the country, to a new home and school. We went fishing with him early in the morning, in the rain, and even at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683207614257-8HL63ZI1FTTVSX7J22C1/OllyaAndreeva.jpg Photographers | M-P - Purple Heart NYC Exhibition, 2023 This photo was taken in Mexico City during the Zona Maco opening week. The cowboy hat is Mexican symbol. Usually, it represents masculinity, but the purple light makes the composition and the message very romantic. I found the purple light and two men wearing cowboys hats very enticing and sensual. It’s left to us to wonder what kind of energy is building between these two cowboys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683208340981-8K8PF4JD43YS5YAQ98WZ/Paola_Chapdelaine_Full+res.jpg Photographers | M-P - Majorettes NYC Exhibition, 2023 This photograph was taken before the beginning of the African American Day Parade in Harlem (2022). I have always drawn to uniforms, which create a sense of unity and belonging, bringing a solemn character to life. What I find makes these scenes most alive are the moments when gestures or details break the perfect cohesion of the whole, giving it more individuality and humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683211825250-R9LMN18KIOXE2M4N41UH/Pimar+Ramos.jpg Photographers | M-P - Liberté NYC Exhibition, 2023 In 2022, during a trip to France, I attended the LGBTQIA+ Pride, at Place de la République. Dozens of people surrounded the 25-meter-high monument when a woman started to climb it. The entire parade watched her with great tension. She almost fell a few times, flirted with death, but she got it and took the rainbow flag to the highest possible point. Everyone celebrated, and I was thrilled to be living and photographing that moment of freedom after getting rid of a long abusive relationship and finding myself bisexual. After the click, a certainty, love is still a revolutionary act. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683214238262-DC0MYYZCZYI6QC2RQZBV/i9vjTX9o.jpeg Photographers | M-P - Saamis: We Used to Live in the Tundra NYC Exhibition, 2023 Being part of the last indigenous of Europe, the Saami of Russia lost their nomadic autonomy with the rise of Soviet power. Reindeer herders in the tundra on the Kola Peninsula, the Saami were forced to live in apartment buildings in Lovozero village, considered as a reserve. Settled to work in kolkhozes, the saami language and the traditional costume were prohibited. Today, there are 1500 saami people, and some 200 speak the language, most of them are elderly. Proud of their traditions, they strive to preserve their culture while adapting to modernity and global warming in the Arctic region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546919579241-MRPO73BI4PDBM6773NDW/natelagr+%2867%29.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 Indian Photo Festival, 2020 From my photo series "Women with headscarves". This square, black, transparent fabric will one day turn into headscarves for these girls. It is truly thin and practical, it isn’t slippery and can be easily attached to hair. The women from this region mostly start wearing them after marriage. This is a tradition, a symbol and an inseparable part of their lives. Since their childhood, they get used to labour, having respect for the elders and caring for each other. They share and preserve traditions. In the mountainous Adjara, they say that everything slowly changes as times goes by. The people of the mountains are moving downwards and those who stay recount how fast the environment changes; what used to exist yesterday has already disappeared and even the things from today will be gone tomorrow. This is the reason why I wanted to photograph the black headscarf on the background of these women and girls, as today it is the symbol of their femininity, loyalty, simplicity and inner peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683206135072-9AE3R4WAC48BAGWT3JZ5/Nastaran+farjadpezeshk.jpg Photographers | M-P - Jellyfish NYC Exhibition, 2023 The young woman is carrying the fishing tackles home. She looks like the bride of the see which I called jellyfish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705863510642-HMONV3QUB0Z41HS6VY8X/Maria+Gronning.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705865885989-1CE10TQ4OKYVNF9IOD04/Melahat+%C3%9Cnel+.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641756868536-MNS3LR1CC1EA4P12FLND/nicole_horvath14.jpeg.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled 2nd Virtual Exhibition—September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705862771302-AIBAE7LZEMX34H3A8CE6/Marcy+Tilton.jpg Photographers | M-P - Cafe Bulldog Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 As I was leaving a favorite Paris Left Bank cafe, two men with a dog sat down and gave the dog a drink. Immediately I crouched down to ground level to photograph the dog and legs while talking to them. The folded arm gesture and scowl of the man on the right capture a moment of synchrony when the world gave me a gift. I love to photograph dogs, Parisian dogs in particular, and this shot makes me smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705863705023-2VG3LQ052MEIFCD8Z9XH/Maria+Usmanova+.jpg Photographers | M-P - Ksenia Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 In this photo, my niece Ksenia is diving for shells on the Black Sea. I used my GoPro8 camera, which I bought specifically for underwater filming. I also used the dome port by Telesin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641756607424-OJB7LU7NUKR43WVQULVG/marilynstrauss01.jpg Photographers | M-P - Semaphore of Hope 2nd Virtual Exhibition, September – October 2021 One grey winter day in the midst of the Pandemic, I was lucky enough to encounter this lovely young woman dancing in Washington Square Park. A symphony of movement with her enormous, handmade fan of silk tie-dyed scarves, her gestures were elegant, fluid, hypnotic; a joyously defiant response to the world’s new reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711986243706-I7BXZ5BXAZZ4VO9AELD5/Nadine_Taesler.jpg Photographers | M-P - La Palmer NYC Exhibition, 2024 On La Palma, Canary Islands, they built these structures for a future cruise ship terminal, but the plans were cancelled. Now the area is only used by locals going for a stroll or jog by the sea. I loved capturing the light and shadow play of these decaying structures together with the few people giving it perspective in black and white! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1609856024562-U372ZP0H7IA206LX6MED/nancefleming.jpg Photographers | M-P - Unbridled NYC Exhibition, 2020 “Unbridled” best describes this image taken at a Rang-De-Holi Festival. Like Holi festivals world-wide, this was a vibrant, joyful event with music, dance, and brilliant colorful powder thrown about and playfully massaged into each participant's hair and face. I arrived not knowing quite how my presence with camera would be received, but was immediately welcomed into the fold of celebrants with greetings of “Happy Holi” and an anointing of powders. The sense of rapture was deeply infectious, and I wanted to show that story of euphoria in a B&W image rather than losing the emotion in a cascade of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711987823693-JKF2ZCBAUL4AJNO7B19Q/Natalie+Behring.jpg Photographers | M-P - Galaxy of Sheep NYC Exhibition, 2024 When I moved back to my childhood home in Idaho, I had the random good fortune of moving in next to a sheep rancher. The Siddoway family has welcomed me to take photos of their photogenic ranching activities, and one early morning at a spring round-up, I discovered what it looks like when a flash is used on a herd of sheep in the dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711991707327-ZTEFFZ764HDVSC4U1OUR/Paula+Miuh.jpg Photographers | M-P - Hide and Seek NYC Exhibition, 2024 Portrait of Evelina, a seven-year-old girl I met in a village in Moldova in the summer of 2023, when she was playing in an abandoned house with her five siblings. Her loving and lighthearted nature reminded me a lot of myself at her age. Taking this picture of her felt like I had the power to stop time, to immortalize her the way she is and stop her from ever changing and dimming her own light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1565622500546-CNGTL1V1WRMZZ4NLTKNB/polly_rusyn.jpg Photographers | M-P - Yellow Flowers Kuala Lumpur Street Photography Festival, 2019 I kept finding myself returning to this small square in Cádiz. I’d had my eye on the floral fabric, feeling there could be an opportunity to include it in a photograph. Earlier I’d also spotted a woman wandering around in a striking dress – but it was only when the two came together that the connection was clear! The yellow flowers jumped out at me, and I took the shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1673117252055-3B35TGQ67MV4591HZ73P/puspitachowdhury.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Special Exhibition for 22 Indian Women, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2022 The photo was taken during a Hindu festival called Chath Puja, where prayers are dedicated to the solar deity to show gratitude and thankfulness. In this particular image, the expression of the child caught my attention while he was waiting for his mother to complete the rituals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682115772604-DOW1EBEE0O5ENWG8Y9ND/Maria+Plotnikova.jpg Photographers | M-P - Car Theft in Tushino Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I saw this situation by chance when I was in a quiet bedroom community Tushino in Moscow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711983295627-KJ0NF3IC8DN3SFHWM8AS/marianthi_efthimiou.jpg Photographers | M-P - The Night of Ghosts. NYC Exhibition, 2024 In mythology, Konstantis haunted the area of Tabakika, when he learnt that his dear Lenio was hit by a thunder and died. Konstantis couldn’t cope with this loss, so he killed himself in order to reunite with Lenio in the afterlife. Konstanti’s story was revived in 1995 as an annual tradition. On the last Saturday of the Carnival, the locals of Amfissa put on their traditional costumes, to represent the myth. The audience was observing this myth come to life through a theatrical performance. I turned my gaze to the audience watching and made them my own protagonists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711985783112-C6FEJQU8VACIPQZ4RZEW/Missy+Brinkmeyer.jpg Photographers | M-P - Best Friends NYC Exhibition, 2024 I was watching several small children socialize and play in a little town during a street festival. They could have been 50, 100, or 4 years old; the scenes of love and connection were just the same. My heart melted when I caught this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652134424263-V340CYL749SNWAYC2EDD/mojgan_jafary.jpg Photographers | M-P - Revolution The photo was taken on the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. When I took the photo, I was thinking about what percentage of the slogans of the revolution have been achieved after thirty-nine years. The looks in the photo were my answer to this question. NYC Annual Exhibition, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722975830570-JMNF83EQX24FIP2UH0YK/IMG_8638.JPG Photographers | M-P - Which Way Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 For this photo, I focused on the graphical nature of the scene. I first noticed this spot in the parking lot of a sports facility as I waited for my daughter to finish her program. Over the course of a few visits, I played with different compositions until I was pleased with the proportions, shapes, shadows, and colors of this one. Then, I waited (and waited) in this spot for the right subject and movement to enter the frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682116664025-N3FPM04H6IZZYNO29R3F/Mary+Crnkovic+Pilas.jpg Photographers | M-P - Sweet Bird of Youth Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 This photo was taken last year while I was on holiday. My mother-in-law has a holiday home on Brac, an island in Croatia, and we go there every summer. One day while I was going home from the beach, I walked home above a park that I have passed hundreds of times. However, this time, to my delight, a little girl in a white dress with blond curls was swinging on the swing, and beside her, her shadow. I knew I had to capture the scene and am glad I did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1722977814277-LOWLB27NTBMR33B8MIZR/Michelle+Brennan.jpg Photographers | M-P - Lady 'n Liquor Rome Exhibition, Italy, 2024 I saw this woman in a liquor store window on a Sunday afternoon, selecting a haul I thought was quite in good taste, and wearing an ensemble that caught my eye. As I was imagining what kind of fancy party she might be planning, I noticed the cashier notice me, and alert the woman to my presence. At that moment, the woman turned around, I clicked the shutter, and I got a piece of her mind along with this shot. I flashed a peace sign and walked away. I would not be receiving an invitation for an afternoon aperitif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1641753861007-8CONCBENJXOSS7UB692U/Mithu+Chakraborty.jpeg Photographers | M-P - Untitled 1st Virtual Exhibition, May 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682117548546-U6OLGFRCI91U9K0IECTQ/Marzena+Hans.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I was strolling around the beach in Sopot, a popular touristic destination in Poland, and was struck by this lady, sleeping calmly among numerous people walking by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737572317132-F3XRQUV6VDSFH3P1XGFC/Marcia+Celjar.jpg Photographers | M-P - Sleeping Beauty Brazil Exhibition, 2025 I was caught by the expression on a man's face through a window in a café in London. He was in front of a book, but his gaze was far away. In the reflection of the same window, I noticed another man walking on the sidewalk on the other side of the street and, at the same time, a woman, on another layer, forming a three-dimensional image with interesting textures and colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1652134876045-TFYZ3QZQ5CPKTUO3A76H/nina_weinberg_doran.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2022 In the pueblo of San Juan Sacatapez, Guatemala, I came upon a crowd gathering. I quickly zoomed over to observe and found myself in the middle of a Mayan wedding reception. I was welcomed in and started talking with the guests and capturing images. In one of those split-second moments, I saw this scene develop with the bride capturing my eye, and I was more than ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737574003792-ZKL6YJD6YWOX3X15SBJ7/Nuria+Rius+horizontal.jpg Photographers | M-P - A Group of Marines, A-Train, NYC Brazil Exhibition, 2025 I was riding the train, which it happens to be one of my favorite and most inspiring places to not only shoot (also to think, meditate, plan, etc) and I saw a group of marines (it was Fleek Week in New York) watching some "show time.” I was automatically caught by their smiles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737574533409-SJTAQJ5ZLIT9DOPT3IIT/P%C4%B1nar+Erg%C3%BCl.jpg Photographers | M-P - Threads of Identity Brazil Exhibition, 2025 This photograph, taken in August, 2024, in Stockholm, Sweden, shows a group of young people sitting on steps in front of black and white portrait posters. The dark, alternative fashion and bold styles of the young individuals convey a rebellious, carefree attitude that contrasts with the orderly arrangement of the posters behind them. What compelled me to take this photograph was the way these elements came together so naturally. I was drawn to the scene by the striking juxtaposition between the vibrant, contemporary group in the foreground and the static, monochrome faces in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680289205683-LCBXC1O8OUXQ53QA8S35/Mania+De+Praeter2.jpeg.jpg Photographers | M-P - Disappearance I love to walk near the water, preferably very early. When I saw this woman bending over I fortunately had my camera ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742391569093-KGIRQ1G8ZOZ6N49K2SUG/Marijn+Fidder.jpg Photographers | M-P - Tamale Safalu NYC Exhibition, 2025 Bodybuilder Tamale Safalu trains near his home. Kampala, Uganda, 25 January, 2024. “By competing as a bodybuilder on stage, I want to encourage other people with disabilities to recognize their own talents and never put their heads down,” says Tamale. Despite losing his leg after a terrible motorcycle accident in 2020, Tamale remained committed to competitive bodybuilding, becoming the first disabled athlete in Uganda to compete against able-bodied athletes. His strength and determination in the face of adversity challenges stereotypes and serves as an inspiration to people from all walks of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546755571718-P277LXDRZ4I7F8WGORTR/Marika.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 I was wondering in the streets of Harar, Ethiopia, and suddenly I came across these three girls standing and waiting for something. I was first attracted by the colors and then I saw how the one at the back was embracing the other and I just hit the shutter. I take time to select photos and it is only when I was going through some files a few months ago that I found this photo amongst others from Ethiopia that I had forgotten about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1546920233522-Y7X6H2PKRCEB3BFMVXP9/niki_gleoudi_1.jpg Photographers | M-P - In a World of Unicorns NYC Exhibition, 2018 PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 Indian Photo Festival, 2020 Walking on the beach I saw two men hugging with an amazing expression. Magic happened when the kids in the background flew the floating Unicorn in the air! At that moment I realized that this was a strong image. It’s those rare moments and I felt my heart beating like crazy and my stomach swirling! I just hoped that everything was in focus and within the frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680291985024-DJO8SBF40NZQ3IWJXHRY/pamela_fricke7.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 This image was taken on the short ferry ride to the Regla neighborhood in Havana, Cuba. The woman was deep in thought and made me wonder what she was thinking about. Her expression made me think that she may have the weight of the world on her shoulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680292338875-NFH9G38P8XIOSRTNPWKJ/Untitled-1+copy.jpg Photographers | M-P - Looking Up in Las Vegas Virtual Exhibition, 2023 There is so much complexity in Las Vegas at street level, with throngs of characters and distractions of all sorts. Yet as I wandered the Strip, I couldn’t help but look up and happily notice multiple people ziplining simultaneously! I loved the elegance and complete contrast to the sensory overload happening below: the clear sky canvas, the orderly movement of zipliners in parallel, and geometric play of the cable lines with the curve and shapes of the Ferris wheel in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1683210115870-GXURGK7LRLSZ9I9GNRMS/Patrizia+Cal%C3%AD.jpg Photographers | M-P - Seaweed Dancers NYC Exhibition, 2023 Colorful and graceful figures, the women of Jambiani wade out at sunrise to collect seaweeds from the shallow water and tend their seaweed farms. Women spend hours walking waist-deep in the water with slow, winding movement or sitting in the shallow sea-floor tending their gardens. Seaweeds are collected at low tide, the new seedlings inspected, tied to ropes, and hung up between stakes in neat rows, gardens are inspected, combed and the harvest is collected. A hard work done with extreme grace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705866152756-AADN4QRPNHHMMRJYXFJS/Penelope+Green.jpg Photographers | M-P - Somewhere Under the Rainbow Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 I'm lucky to be able to swim in the ocean every day with a small group of like-minded friends. On this day, I was in the ocean pool just after a storm and pounding rain when a rainbow popped up. A friend jokingly offered to dive "through" the rainbow and I took just one photo of him. Luckily, it was well-timed. It was a magical and fun morning–not much swimming was done, because everyone was gawking at the rainbow, which seemed to linger just for us: one of those moments that makes getting up early super rewarding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1755877132999-3T307W6BUKTF2NTVXX7O/Mariana+Arrieta+Collage+2026+WSP+Artist+Residency+Short+List.jpg Photographers | M-P - Everyday Habana 2026 Artist Residency Short List Artist Statement: Artist Statement: Everyday Habana is a street photography series that reflects my ongoing interest in how people move through, pause within, and inhabit public space. Made in the streets of La Habana, Cuba, the series focuses on everyday moments, fragments of leisure, rest, waiting, and interaction, where the human body becomes part of the city’s visual and emotional architecture. In Habana, the line between public and private blurs; the street often becomes a living room, a resting place, a space of expression. That fluid relationship between the individual and their surroundings is what drew me in. For me, documentary photography is also a form of visual anthropology, a quiet, noninvasive way of studying how culture is enacted through gesture, presence, and spatial behavior. I photograph from a position of curiosity and care, working with both analog and digital formats, always responding to the rhythm of the street and the emotional tension held in seemingly ordinary scenes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770106848270-KC20XFJB1YETJ6XEZ4J6/PilarVergara.jpg Photographers | M-P - Portraits Underground # 8 NYC Exhibition, 2026 I took this on the subway, while I was working on my project Portraits Underground. Their hands were locked, but everything else was on the verge of slipping. Her face was caught in light, open and searching, while his disappeared into shadow. That contrast caught my attention. I wasn't photographing a couple so much as a moment of negotiation between closeness and distance, tenderness and control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770260008077-05OA6B43X6FBTBI8848L/malihe_gharahcheloo.jpg Photographers | M-P - Play time New York Exhibition, 2026 This is an open space for a performance in a park. While I was taking pictures, I saw boys on the steps, each doing a different thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1680289998319-9T2W9Z5UUINKR743LW5Y/marcella_mastrorocco007.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, 2023 Photo booths have recently been reintroduced in Italy. Nowadays we all have a camera in our pocket so it is for me very poetic to see people who still take a portrait together in the cabins. It takes me back to the time of my adolescence as I used to squeeze inside the cabin with two, three friends. This photo tells me something about intimacy and rises questions? Are they friends, lovers? Are they grimacing or in a romantic moment? That day I ended up staying with my fantasies and did not wait for them to leave the booth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770260586570-3JOJCJPRKVQM26K7117T/margarita_gasca_oderiz.jpg Photographers | M-P - Los Caminos de la Vida NYC Exhibition, 2026 A Mexican man in a wide hat moves silently through the streets of life as a living shadow. He represents the many ordinary workers who battle each day against the unseen burden of heavy labour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1547092841552-E0DO083SNMKX632CFOR4/Margarita1.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2018 I travel to Varanasi every year for the past 6 years and every time I am there I am mesmerized by the energy of that city and the diversity of life there. Walking the streets and documenting daily life is a treat. I stumbled upon a group of children one afternoon and joined them in their games. They always love attention and their playful nature comes to life instantly. The boy on the image had a wonderful attitude all along. When I approached him he instantly grabbed the little lamb to pose for an image. The way he held that lamb left me speechless... he made me feel as if he was holding his prized possession, his childhood stuffed animal that gave him so much comfort. His eyes, on the other hand, betrayed a less carefree self, one he lost years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1705865565951-IW72T6SUI6B9K3JE9B7O/mariana+basurto.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770261428480-RYJ2Z7AEPZ3EPZZZ4ZVE/marijke_hoebee.jpg Photographers | M-P - Still on a Moving Tram NYC Exhibition, 2026 During the first year of my photography studies, I was tasked with creating an image using a long shutter speed. I challenged myself by combining long exposure with panning the camera alongside a moving tram in Amsterdam. Timing the movement perfectly while keeping a person in focus amid motion blur was difficult, especially with the tram’s slightly tinted, reflective windows. After hours of practice, I am proud of the result. The image captures a fleeting moment of calm amid the bustling city, blending motion and stillness in a single frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1737572803532-HLEHVGHN9DCSE4IIRKOE/Marina+Calderon+horizontal.jpg Photographers | M-P - Menino do Rio Brazil Exhibition, 2025 Watching the sunset from Pedra do Arpoador is a quintessential Rio de Janeiro experience. Born and raised here, the sight of the sun sinking over the beach, painting the sky in orange and purple, and revealing the mountains silhouetted, never fails to amaze me. On hot days, as city lights flicker on and the sun fades, beachgoers continue to brave the sea. I spotted this boy during one such sunset. The sand on his skin, blending with his dyed hair, and the vibrant backdrop create a deeply familiar scene—almost as if I can smell the ocean breeze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1685541477788-H6O9YJJ0T33Y18YJAVED/Melissa2.jpg Photographers | M-P - Fifth Avenue, New York City, 2017 NYC Exhibition, 2018 There is nothing better than being out with a camera on a crisp September afternoon in Manhattan. After months of sweltering heat and hazy light, fall brings relief to millions of wilted New Yorkers. The light lowers and sharpens, the temperatures turn cool and invigorating, and this particular woman donned a chic and graphic coat that I would have gladly stolen right off her back. The next best thing to my felonious impulse was to photograph her, but the challenge was to avoid making a cliched picture of an older lady—or a steam pipe—much less make a compelling picture of a person’s back. Luckily, this woman was deep in conversation with a friend and didn’t notice me as I took a dozen photographs of her. I love the contrast between the orange pipe and the clear blue sky, and how her lovely cloud of white hair is echoed by the wafting steam. Carrying a multitude of women on her back, she could be the metaphorical grandmother of us all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742392410837-8EAQDGIEY5B7BM9R9U9O/Monaris+Franqui.jpg Photographers | M-P - Painterly Thoughts NYC Exhibition, 2025 Painterly Thoughts' was captured from the backseat of a taxi in Kolkata on a rainy day. As the city moved past me, the glass turned into a canvas—warping colors, distorting figures, and blending reality into something almost surreal. What first caught my attention was the man’s intense gaze in the rearview mirror, a quiet contrast to the chaotic scene outside. The rain, the reflections, the movement. Everything merged into a fleeting composition that felt more like a painting than a photograph. This image is about that in-between space, where everyday moments become something more, shaped by light, texture, and time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770264047857-TUFTMXGPP1PH72AACTSY/Nazile_Bolat.jpg Photographers | M-P - Tulips in the Mirror NYC Exhibition, 2026 I went to visit a tulip field with my friends. The landscape was beautiful, yet I felt that similar scenes had already been photographed many times. As I walked through the field asking myself what I could photograph differently, my foot struck something hard beneath the soil. After digging a little, I discovered broken pieces of a mirror. I picked up one fragment and began experimenting. At that moment, a family arrived. The children got out of the car and started running, suddenly appearing inside the mirror in my hand. In that unexpected instant, they became part of the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1711988343204-MUGTW9K8FWHPUFDUQ5D4/neveredit.jpg Photographers | M-P - Hot Summer in Athens NYC Exhibition, 2024 It was a summer day in Athens, Greece, and tourists were having a hard time coping with the heat. I noticed this group, which was trying hard to follow what the guide was telling them, and I could FEEL their anguish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770265165777-AX1MW9G9C59ORK1X0E8U/PamleaGoldstein.jpg Photographers | M-P - Born For This NYC Exhibition, 2026 It was my first time attending Turban Day in Times Square. Amid the crowds and colorful turbans, I spotted this little kid standing alone in the middle of it all. She wore a traditional turban, but otherwise looked like any other child—sunglasses on her face and white sneakers on her feet. That mix of tradition and everyday cool caught my eye right away. I quickly knelt down and took the shot before she could notice me—thankfully, I got away with it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742397948809-128VFNBE1W2J1M9QGN4J/patti_lamm.jpg Photographers | M-P - The Passenger NYC Exhibition, 2025 "Cars and Coffee" events take place around the world, drawing classic car enthusiasts eager to showcase their prized vehicles in bustling settings. Amidst the lively atmosphere of one such event, a woman sitting quietly in the back seat of an elegant, vintage car caught my eye. The way the light illuminated her face, along with her intriguing backward glance, created an air of mystery that I felt fortunate to be able to capture with my camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1581702081860-ZOIR9G7BXP80J1X4FWPC/Pelin_Guven.jpg Photographers | M-P - Becoming of Shadows" NYC Exhibition, 2019 It was end of summer, I was strolling in one of the most popular areas in Beijing. I was drawn to the bright pink wall. It provided freshness over the tired hustle and bustle of city life. 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This portrait is a way of capturing that peace and self-love. The women in the portrait are named Silvia and Vicky. They are friends of mine and remind me that freedom and character are things no one can take away from us. For me, women like this are incredibly important in my life. It’s a matter of strength. Of being, in a way, unstoppable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1682117701520-IHLUAYA1KBPH8SDEI6XU/Maude+Bardet.jpg Photographers | M-P - As Sabtiyyah, Cairo Annual Exhibition in New York City, 2023 I was strolling in the As Sabtiyyah neighborhood in Cairo, which is known to house the stables for the many horse carts that are so common in the city. It was getting close to midday and the light was harsh, so I experimented with highlight. The guy in the black Tshirt with a smoke pattern that suddenly entered the frame made my shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770263740057-4JUHEVYYTIJGB9XCYOFR/muthoni_ngatia_wsp.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2026 This photograph was made in Istanbul at Galata Bridge, a popular spot for wedding portraits. I was drawn first to the architecture—the sweeping arc framing the sky—before the couple paused in the space. I caught this moment just before they turned to pose for their wedding photographer. The groom adjusts the bride’s veil as the wind lifts it outward, a quiet, practical gesture with an intimacy that exists only briefly, before choreography and performance take over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1742392953340-LOJ3U2OY09JSIUWOJKX8/nadiaeeckhout.jpg Photographers | M-P - Untitled NYC Exhibition, 2025 Raindrops streaming down a bus window revealing children coming back from a Christmas fair—dreaming away, tired I guess. A beautiful moment which made me click. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1775183370581-6TZ2QY4YSL1RPXKGD9S1/Nancy+R+Farese.jpg Photographers | M-P - Is Having a Baby Simultaneously the Most Selfish and Selfless Thing I Can Do? SPAIN EXHIBITION, MAY 2026 Mapping Dissonance: America 2025 began in January with themes of lives mediated by screens, disembodiment, and the quiet surrender of ideas and intellect to AI. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1535744080523-OIE1QLHJKAIVTISCHJW5/PS109_logo.jpg Artist Residency Call https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/2026-wsp-festival daily 1.0 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606358426-7U7TQHHUM4VOH9K7SHY6/Dina+Litovsky_headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Dina Litovsky Dina Litovsky is a Ukrainian-born documentary and portrait photographer based in New York City since 1991. Her work draws on visual sociology to examine subcultures and leisure in contemporary culture, often focusing on power, spectacle, and the social choreography of public life. Litovsky holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from New York University and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. Her images have appeared in publications such as National Geographic, TIME, The New Yorker, GQ, New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. In 2020, she received the Nannen Prize, Germany's leading award for documentary photography. Other awards include PDN 30, Pictures of the Year International, NPPA Photojournalism, and American Photography. Her exhibitions include solo and group shows at the Museum of the City of New York, Noordelicht Festival, Netherlands; Annenberg Space for Photography, LA; Anastasia Photo Gallery, NYC; Australian Center of Photography, The Fence, USA; Tanto Tempo Gallery, Japan; LightFactory Museum, Charlotte. Litovsky also writes a Substack newsletter In the Flash, where she explores visual culture, editorial photography processes, and industry insights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770605886299-Y8FUQ7KLK68G9X1Z1HK0/Adama+Delphine+Fawundu+HeadShot-2+photo+credit.jpeg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Adama Delphine Fawundu Adama Delphine Fawundu is a visual artist, educator, and cultural organizer whose interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and expanded through textiles, video, sound, handmade paper, and found and organic materials. Central to her work is what she terms Kpoto Patchwok, a methodology grounded in ancestral intelligence, embodied memory, and ecological knowledge. Through this approach, she explores how stories are carried, preserved, and transmitted through our bodies, landscapes, and material culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606024667-PWXMKSIT32G8W5Z0CJSB/David+Campany_headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - David Campany David Campany is a curator, writer, editor, educator and Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York. David has worked worldwide with institutions including Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Fundacion MAPFRE Spain, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, and The National Portrait Gallery London. He has published with Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, Phaidon, MACK, Frieze, The New Yorker, The FT Weekend, and The Telegraph. Recent curatorial projects include Eugène Atget: the Making of a Reputation, Latitudes: François-Xavier Gbré and Nuits Balnéaires, HARD COPY NEW YORK (artists: Daniel Arnold, David Black, John Divola, Jerry Hsu, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Ari Marcopoulos, Ryan McGinley, Thomas Ruff, Collier Schorr, Stephen Shore, Asako Narahashi, Gray Sorrenti, Andre D. Wagner) co-curated with Aaron Stern, International Center of Photography, New York, 2026; Jeff Wall. Photographs, Gallerie d’Italia, Turin 2025; Edward Burtynsky: the Great Acceleration, International Center of Photography, 2025; IMMERSION: Gregory Halpern, Raymond Meeks and Vasantha Yogananthan (International Center of Photography, New York, 2023), William Klein: Yes. Photographs, Paintings, Films 1948-2013 (International Center of Photography, New York, 2022), ACTUAL SIZE! Photography at Life Scale (International Center of Photography, New York, 2022); A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload, International Center of Photography, New York, 2022; and Gillian Laub: Family Matters, International Center of Photography, New York, 2021. David has written or edited over thirty books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606494971-ULKMR51OP22YYEY9FW71/Elisabeth+Krist_headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Elizabeth Krist Elizabeth Krist was a photography editor at National Geographic magazine for over 20 years, and now serves on the board of Women Photograph, advises the Eddie Adams Workshop, and is a contributing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review. She curated National Geographic’s Women of Vision exhibition and book, as well as five Photoville installations. Elizabeth helped program events for National Geographic and for CatchLight. She teaches for ICP, and collaborates with the New York Portfolio Review, Apple, Vital Impacts, Leica, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. She recently finished editing two 2026 books with Michael Yamashita. NPPA recognized her with their 2025 Outstanding Leader Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770605788369-K8LB66M4FI84BDVVUVUT/POLLY+IRUNGU+HEADSHOT.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Polly Irungu Polly Irungu is a Kenyan-born, Washington, D.C.–based photographer, photo editor, and community builder who deeply believes in the power of visual storytelling to create access, equity, and change. Driven by curiosity, care, and a strong sense of responsibility, Polly is especially committed to uplifting Black and African women creatives whose stories have historically been overlooked. She previously served as a White House photographer and photo editor, and she cares deeply about representation, fairness, and building systems that allow talented people not just to be seen, but to thrive. Through her work as a photographer and as the founder of Black Women Photographers, Polly is most energized when she’s connecting people, opening doors, and helping creatives gain the confidence, resources, and opportunities they deserve. Passionate about mentorship, collaboration, and community-building, she values both the craft of photography and the business behind it—believing sustainable careers are just as important as powerful images. Whether documenting history, leading conversations about equity in the creative industry, or supporting emerging photographers, Polly approaches everything with intention, generosity, and a belief in collective success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770605933929-7XUUQU77WG8VZV51JSG4/Alan+Schaller+Portrait+%C2%A9Ryota+Kohama.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Alan Schaller Alan Schaller is a London-based photographer and Leica Ambassador whose work has become a defining reference in contemporary black-and-white street photography. Working primarily in urban environments, his images are known for their strong contrast, graphic composition, and careful attention to light and form. His work has been exhibited internationally in over 30 solo shows and published widely, and he regularly collaborates with cultural institutions, brands, and publications. Alongside his artistic practice, Alan has played a key role in building global photography communities. He is the co-founder of Street Photography International and the founder of Irys, a photography-first social media platform and ecosystem created to support photographers, foster meaningful connections, and create real-world opportunities beyond the feed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606256745-94OABEYCCJK06X60UP4T/Debra-Klomp-Ching_headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Debra Klomp Ching Debra Klomp Ching is the co-owner of the Klompching Gallery (est. 2007) in Brooklyn, New York. The gallery specializes in the exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art photographs. Artworks by its international roster of artists can be found in the collections of MoCP, George Eastman Museum, LACMA, MOMA and Victoria & Albert Museum among many others. In addition to owning and operating the gallery, she is a freelance consultant, writer, curator and educator. Her writing has been published in several publications, including being a guest editor for Photography Quarterly (issue No. 99) and the commissioning editor/publisher of (re)collect – Jonathan Shaw (2006). She is a regular judge for photography awards, including the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award (2017), San Francisco Bay International Photography Show (2018), and the Arnold Newman Portrait Award (2018). Debra Klomp Ching is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), the co-founder of the Fresh Annual Photography Exhibition and the Rhonda Wilson Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606668550-LFK1E7PQ4BG1JKZC5U1S/Lynn+Johnson_headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Lynn Johnson Lynn Johnson photographs the human condition. Johnson has worked for LIFE and Sports Illustrated and published 40 feature stories in National Geographic Magazine. She is known for finding beauty and meaning in elusive, difficult subjects—threatened languages, zoonotic disease, the gender spectrum, and the many mysteries of the brain—Science of Touch, Blast Force Injury and Profound Autism. Hate Kills, her master’s thesis as a Knight Fellow at Ohio University, probed the impact of hate crimes. And at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, she helped develop CORE— a program that challenged master’s students to push past their comfort levels. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the Chris Hondros Fund, and has been a Pulitzer finalist on two occasions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606443776-VOJ36NP5P98LC7GCDNBV/Eleonore+Simon_Square_%C2%A9Alan+Schaller.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Éléonore Simon Éléonore Simon is a Paris-based photographer and writer working across street photography and fine art. Her practice has developed between France, New York, and Chile, where she spent five years photographing Valparaíso. Back in France since 2022, she contributes her pen to artists and publications including revue EPIC and Process Magazine. Her photography has been exhibited internationally and published in magazines and anthologies dedicated to contemporary street photography. She is a member of UP Photographers and Les Filles de la Photo, and a frequent guest and judge at international photography festivals. Alongside her artistic practice, she serves as COO of Irys, a photography-first social platform and ecosystem dedicated to photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1771716275294-1CBHOLMRLAID2DU22CFW/Phil+Penman_headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Phil Penman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1770606741384-9AY3BM505CU3QR2926IL/Melissa+O_Shaughnessy+Headshot.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Melissa O’Shaughnessy Melissa O’Shaughnessy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1960 and attended Georgetown University and the University of St. Thomas, graduating with a degree in journalism. She is now a photographer based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo show at the Municipal Art Society of New York and group exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York and the International Center of Photography. Her work is included in the anthologies “Bystander: A History of Street Photography”, “Women Street Photographers”, and “Reclaim the Street: Street Photography’s Moment”. Her first monograph, “Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs” was published by Aperture in 2020. She is a member of UP, an international collective of 26 photographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1771207517917-SZ3CH7U6G2VSXDSMYJQZ/%2B%2BL1010018%2B.jpg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Hiroko Hirota Hiroko Hirota is a Tokyo based photographer. She studied Broadcasting at Nihon University College of Art and spent one year as an exchange student at Washington State University. After graduating, she worked at a commercial film production company in the advertising industry. In 2020, she held her first solo exhibition at the Leica Professional Store Tokyo and published her debut photobook. In 2024, she was selected as a finalist for the Fujifilm Photo Salon Young Photographers Support Project, which resulted in a solo exhibition at Fujifilm Square Tokyo. Later that year, she presented a second solo exhibition at the Leica Professional Store Tokyo. In 2026, Hirota was selected for the Women Street Photographers Artist Residency in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b60f03670e802968764179a/1771207657874-QTMLLU89JBLML9N7QONI/GULNARA.jpeg 2026 WSP FESTIVAL - Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova is an American photographer with over 45 years of experience in documentary, street, and fine art photography. She graduated from the International Center of Photography in 1994 and worked as a staff photo editor and photojournalist at the Associated Press. Throughout her career, Gulnara has received numerous awards for her photographs, including first prize from the World Press Photo. 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