SERIES WINNER Argus Paul Estabrook South Korea Lost in Tokyo I approached the metro ticket booth. The agent motioned for my rail pass. But where was it? And for that matter, where was I? The answer escaped me. Instead, swirling in my mind was a void made in the wake of my father’s recent passing. Light streaks traced over blurred recollections of abrupt travel to my family home. Deepening this emotional whiplash, I returned back to my apartment in Seoul only to learn my wife had been unfaithful. Wishing to escape the gravity of grief and infidelity, I booked a cheap ticket to ..read more

Andrew Kochanowski Andrew Kochanowski is a candid photographer based outside Detroit, USA. Since 2007 his work has appeared in both solo and group exhibits in Detroit, London, Paris, Warsaw, Berlin, New York, Brighton (U.K), Cardiff, Milan, San Francisco and elsewhere, at venues such as the London Street Photography Festival, Brighton Biannial, SF StreetFoto Festival,  Street Photo Milano, Miami Street Photography Festival, Paris Photo Month, and European Month of Photography in Berlin. He is a founding member of Burn My Eye, an international street photography collective featured in nume ..read more

Michael Mcilvaney My name is Michael McIlvaney. I am a street photographer living in the UK and Ireland. When not working to a project my work is generally unplanned, always candid and in public. All images derive from single shots. I delight in capturing the spontaneous events and serendipitous occurrences that unfold before the camera’s lens, transforming otherwise mundane scenes into moments of theatre. I search out those fleeting movements, flashes of colour, gestures and glances, and moments of connection that, when captured, reveal a story that would otherwise have been left untold. I’m ..read more

Nicholas Ip I was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Canada, and presently living in Hong Kong. My passion for photography started when I discovered street photography a few years ago. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I traveled frequently for work and I used that opportunity to document people and places whenever I could. In 2021, being grounded in Hong Kong, I worked towards improving my photography and decided that black and white is the direction I would take. When I shoot, I enjoy looking for good light, one that provides a nice gradient or high contrast for the frame. My goal is to make photos ..read more

Steve Bonati In 2014, a series of workshops organised by The Guardian and led by Matt Stuart and Stephen McClaren gave me the inspiration, motivation and confidence to become a street photographer. The historical and contextual element of the course provided a great insight into the different approaches and imagery captured under the all encompassing title of “street photography “. Significantly, it revealed a breadth and diversity of approach in attempting to find ones own vision. I have been fortunate enough to be in the company of, and learnt a great deal from Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Melan ..read more

Jaclyn Licht Jaclyn Licht took up street photography in 2017 while living in Providence, Rhode Island. Now a Brooklyn resident, and a member of the New York City Street Photography Collective, she wanders the streets with her film cameras as a way to get to know the intricacies of the city and the characters that populate it. As official photographer for the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations for four years, she captured the day-to-day affairs of all those who strive to change the world through international diplomacy. She is now studying Documentary Practice and Visual Jou ..read more

Willie Velazquez I’ve been walking around with a camera in hand for a few years now, shooting anything and everything that pops out at me. Whether I’m out on a dedicated photo walk or running errands and socializing; burning more film is always the objective. I don’t hunt particular subjects nor try adhering to a single style; I simply keep an open eye and shoot from the gut. Im a member of the Queens Street Photo Crew and being that I was born, raised and currently based in Queens, I make a lot of my work there and almost always in color. But it doesn’t really matter where I am, only that I k ..read more

Pierrot Men I have always lived and worked in Madagascar and each of my photographs is a declaration of love for my country and its people. My father arrived from China in the 1920s, fleeing the Sino-Japanese conflict. He would have liked me to become a merchant like him. I first wanted to be a painter, which I was for twenty-three years. I practised photography as a model for my paintings. On the advice of a friend who found the photos of my paintings more beautiful than my paintings themselves, I abandoned painting for photography while keeping, I hope, a little of my painter’s eye when I ta ..read more

Nicolas Vassal Nicolas VASSAL, alias NIKO, is a French photographer who started photography more than 25 years ago. His source of inspiration and his subjects have been evolving throughout the years before becoming in a kind of random way, what we call a “Street-photographer” You can read many definitions about street-photography, the various ways to approach it, many controversies about its practice that I would simply call in one word as “Candid” photography. It is, in his point of view, the easiest and at the same time the most difficult type of Photography. The easiest because you can prac ..read more

Zisis Kardianos Zisis Kardianos (b. 1962, Zakynthos) I have been active as a street and social documentary photographer since 1985, working independently on self-assigned projects which were later published in various national and international magazines, self-published books and have been exhibited in Greece and abroad. I have studied Sociology in Athens where I also followed a two-year course in photography. I look for subjects and inspiration, moving as a curious observer in the public sphere. My field of interest is in the social landscape, urban landscape and human behavior within them. S ..read more