Photographer: Bas Losekoot Photographer statement: In 2011, I started a photographic project based on the rise of the Urban Millennium. My aim was to capture the consequences of population density on the behaviour of city dwellers. It was in the streets of downtown Manhattan where I created a methodology for use in other cities. By the end of 2018, I had photographed in New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, London, Lagos, Istanbul and Mexico City. In each of those cities I worked for at least one month - walking the streets every day from sunrise till sunset. Out of Place is a photogr ..read more

Photographer: Streetmax 21 Photographer statement: As a street photographer, I take an observational view of how our present circumstances govern our behaviour individually and in crowds. Progressively, we appear to interact with each other only on a synthetic basis. We attempt to mass connect with the aid of modern technology, but in so doing pay less attention to individual connection. I think this is compounded by the increasingly designed environment we inhabit. The codes we see, hear and read within it impact upon our behavioural processes and ultimately isolate us. In developing scenes ..read more

Photographer: Melissa O’Shaughnessy Photographer statement: For the past seven years, I have been photographing regularly on the streets of New York City. I am enthralled by the beauty and the variety of the perfect strangers I chance upon, and try to capture my delight in the energy and chaos that the city serves up to the careful onlooker. Like most big cities around the world, the cloud of Covid-19 has turned New York into a quieter shadow of its former self. I hope these photographs stand as a reminder of what this great city once was--and what it might be again when the pandemic has reced ..read more

Photographer: Jean-Luc Bertini Photographer statement: For about ten years, Jean-Luc Bertini has been photographing the United States following the road, in fits and starts. However, can we still photograph this country, given the profusion of its representations? In American Solitudes, the author crosses the United States and asks himself about the place of the human being in this immense setting. He invents what Gilles Mora calls in his afterword "a poetics of isolation". This is a fair balance between the contemporary photographer facing America and this humanistic touch inherited from the ..read more

Photographer: Krerkburin Kerngburi Photographer statement: I was born in a small province – Lampang - in the north of Thailand, and grew up in the city of Chiang Mai.  I come from a middle-class family, and most Thai people perceived the UK as a highly-civilised country with wealthy, sophisticated and noble people. I could never imagine myself being in the UK, let alone living and studying there; It was an impossible dream for a man like me. Aside from football, rock & roll bands, and landmarks such as Big Ben or the London Eye, I barely knew anything about this country before ar ..read more

Photographer: William Cress Photographer statement: In writing the idea is to show, not tell. A photograph often does both. Yet the photographs in this book neither say nor show. They merely are. The peripatetic peregrinations of an ordinary life, they function just like our own lives: they start, they stop, they snap, and they continue. They are the stillness in between moments, the points between A and B, those average places where people are born, buried, and born again, with miles of lives in between. The graveyard in this book is the graveyard where the photographer’s family is buried, wh ..read more

Photographer: Larry Hallegua Photographer statement: In 2014 I moved to China to teach English in a primary school for one year. I was based in the west, in Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province. During this time Chengdu had a growing population of over 14 million, and was one of China's ‘pilot reform regions’. The city was experiencing rapid economic growth, resulting in heavy investment in infrastructure, such as a fast expanding metro and rail system, as well as the building of new schools to cater for the large migration of rural workers and increasing urbanisation. I was among only ..read more

Photographer: Steven Jensen Photographer statement: A short mini-series using the everyday and mundane to convey a sense of anxiety about our collective future. Shot both in Edinburgh, Scotland and Poltava, Ukraine. SEEN Magazine ..read more

Photographer: Julie Hrudova Photographer statement: This project is actually my portfolio of street photography - it consists of single images, but the visual / thematical connection is there. I think it is about the absurdity of life, about not knowing why we are here and what we are doing. My photos are generally speaking a bit secretive, not showing the entire story and not showing what a person is exactly doing or why. This interests me in photography - it's seen as a trustworthy medium, yet it's very manipulative. I play with this element and I combine this with a more philosophical theme ..read more

Photographer: Enrico Markus Essl Photographer statement: The quiet moments, the quiet phases in the hectic urbanity of capturing and capturing our cities was the goal behind this series. Moments in which people are looking for relaxation, or even a short escape attempt are the situations that I have tried to capture. The pictures was done in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Menton and Salzburg during a period of 2 years. SEEN Magazine ..read more