Night scenes are among the favorites of many street photographers. The sheer number of outstanding works we've featured on the topic are a testament to this. We're adding one more to our roster of favorites in the form of Florian Mueller's latest set, which takes us to the streets of Shanghai and its colorful Nightshift scenes.
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Without a doubt, there's something hypnotic about the dizzying mix of buildings and skyscrapers in many of the architectural photography and street snaps we find. Still, for Germany-based Florian Mueller, one of the best ways to embody the beauty of buildings around the world is to capture them on their own, much like minimalist portraits. Hence, his Singularity project was born. thephoblographer.com »
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"It's not specific colors or patterns that attract me, but interesting light and, at times, absurdity," says photographer Colin Czerwinski to the Phoblographer in an interview. "By absurdity, I mean something tongue-in-cheek.
Meryl Meisler is a legend of street photography. Before people like Erica Reade were making it cool to photograph Beach Lovers, Meryl did it at Fire Island and other places. Her work is a refreshing dive into nostalgia, love, and the sides of humanity that put smiles on our faces when everything else isn't.
Meryl Meisler is a legend of street photography. Before people like Erica Reade were making it cool to photograph Beach Lovers, Meryl did it at Fire Island and other places. Her work is a refreshing dive into nostalgia, love, and the sides of humanity that put smiles on our faces when everything else isn't.
It hit me when being a few feet away from him and hearing his conversations: there will soon be a day that the world loses incredible photographers like Jamel Shabazz. Jamel is part of a breed of photographer that is disappearing -- he's a personable photographer who can speak with people and that puts them before the idea of taking pictures.
"Action, emotion, mystery, and/or a story," says Sean Fryxell to the Phoblographer in an interview when asked about what he looks for in good street photography. "Street photography is extraordinarily difficult because not all actions and stories translate immediately well into a picture.
Arlene Gottfried was a striking street photographer of 1970s and 1980s New York City, when Times Square was more gritty than it was Disney, to say the least. The archive of her work amounts to hundreds of boxes of film which her family is working to preserve. [Read More]
Stare at the lead image of this article. If you're looking at the image above and not having your mind make so many different associations, you're probably not very in tune with what's going on. It's almost impossible to not see the irony.