Beautiful Winning Photos From The LensCulture 2018 Street Photography Awards
Blow-up unicorns, a pig on a pulley and chickens on the lam populate the polychrome pictures in this year’s LensCulture street photography awards.
Beach Scene, Chaung Tha, Myanmar, by Maciej Dakowicz. First place, single image category. (Photo by Maciej Dakowicz/LensCulture 2018 Street Photography Awards) Continue reading »
Joel Meyerowitz – The Master Of Street Photography
Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938) was born in New York City and began taking photographs in 1962. Although he has always seen himself as a street photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank (he is the co-author of the standard work on the genre, Bystander: A History of Street Photography, 1994) he transformed the mode with his pioneering use of color. As an early advocate of color photography (mid-60’s), Meyerowitz was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of color photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. Continue reading »
Superb Street Art By Dolk
Dolk‘s career began in 2003 and he has already risen to be considered a part of the international elite within the street art movement. Through the years, he has worked side-by-side with the best of his contemporaries and has painted in most of the large urban environments of Europe, Australia and the USA. Continue reading »
Meet The Street Artist Who Made $1000 By Adding A Bitcoin QR Code To His Murals
Pascal Boyart is using QR codes to fuel his street art with Bitcoin donations.
Thanks to blockchain tech and cryptocurrencies, creatives might have a new viable option to make ends meet without leaving their fiscal stability in the hands of profit-oriented dealers and corporations. Meet French street artist Pascal ‘PBOY’ Boyart. Continue reading »
Street Fashion And Lifestyle Female Portrait Photography By Iván Olivares
Awesome female portraits by Iván Olivares, talented 19 years old self-taught photographer and retoucher currently based in Caracas, Venezuela. Iván focuses on portraiture, he shoots marvelous fashion, beauty and lifestyle portrait photography. Continue reading »
The Wired Beauty Of The Street Lettering Of India
On India Street Lettering, Pooja Saxena documents street lettering and signage from India. Continue reading »
Street Photographer Travels The World Portraying Very Different Personalities Of Dogs
Arctic Circle, Norway
London-based photographer Alan Schaller is mostly known for his surreal, high contrast black and white photography that portrays “the realities and diversities of human life.” However, people are not the only subject that this street photographer aims to reveal through his works. This ongoing project celebrates a unique relationship we have with our feline friends. Continue reading »
“Wet Neon”: Magical Reflections In Street Puddles By Slava Semeniuta
Slava Semeniuta (best known as Local Preacher) is a talented photographer, graphic designer and artist currently based in Sochi, Russia. Slava celebrates the beauty of neon lights, in his recent photo series dubbed “Wet Neon”, Semeniuta captivates the reflective allure of the slippery streets of Sochi. The artist, particularly drawn to neon and everything cosmic, uses the dazzling light and patterns on water. Continue reading »
“Christmas In Yemen” – This Street Artist Reminds Us That These Children Are Living A Real Hell
For his Christmas In Yemen project, the street artist Igor Dobrowolski mixes Christmas photos with images of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, to remind us that these children are living a real hell. One child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen, and during the conflict, at least 4,600 civilians were killed, more than 8,000 civilians were injured, and more than 1,200 children were killed. Continue reading »
Street Art “Surgeon” Cuts Open Cartoon And Media Characters To Reveal Their Anatomy
Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates spectacular, detailed artworks. Nychos grew up in a little village near Graz (Styria, South of Austria). He calls it the green hell. Born into an Austrian hunter’s family, he saw, at a very young age, things which normal people would consider as cruel and brutal. Continue reading »
“Discover Tokyo”: Stunning Candid Street Photos Of Tokyo By RK
RK is a talented self-taught photographer, iphoneographer, graphic designer and DJ currently based in Tokyo, Japan. RK started photography four years ago, capturing his photos with his iPhone, from the shot to the editing. He shoots amazing street photography, capturing amazing portraits of people immersed in their environment. Continue reading »
This Street Library In Bulgaria Encourages People To Read
“Rapana” is the first street library in Varna, Bulgaria created by a team of young architects and designers. Continue reading »
Between Street Art And Pixel Art, The Amazing Creations Of Pappas Pärlor
A selection of street art creations by Johan Karlgren, aka Pappas Pärlor, an artist who imagines pixilated artworks with his kids, inspired by the world of video games and pop culture. Continue reading »
Polish Street Artist Denounces The Misery Of Fashion With Striking Billboards
With a series of striking fake billboards, the Polish artist Igor Dobrowolski attacks the fashion and ready-to-wear industry by revealing the working conditions behind the famous brands. The artist reminds us that three of the four biggest tragedies in the history of fashion took place in Bangladesh in 2013, such as the collapse of the factory that killed 1134 people. Continue reading »
British Street Artist Mobstr Has An Awesome Collection Of Sarcastic Art Pieces Aprawled Across The UK
Between street art and irony, here are the latest creations of the street artist Mobstr (previously featured), based in London, who continues to spread on the walls his twisted and subversive messages! Continue reading »
Vintage Photographs Document the Defiant Street Styles Of Swiss Rebel Youth From The Late 1950s Through The ’60s
Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006). Living in Zurich, Switzerland, Weinberger was a self-taught “amateur” photographer whose day job working in a factory warehouse allowed him to pursue photography seriously in his free time. In the late 1940s Weinberger began to publish his pictures for a gay magazine using the pseudonym of Jim, and later was a freelance photographer for a Swiss sports magazine. Working in relative obscurity, Weinberger produced all the prints featured in this exhibition in his home darkroom, and these have remained inaccessible until recent years. Continue reading »
There’s A Genius Street Artist Running Loose In New York, And Let’s Hope Nobody Catches Him
American artist Tom Bob is running loose in the streets of New York, and let’s hope nobody catches him. Continue reading »
The ‘Real’ New York: Gritty Scenes Of NYC Street Life In The 1970s
South Bronx
Camilo José Vergara/Library Of Congress
The photographer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara uses photographs as “a means of discovery, as a tool with which to clarify visions and construct knowledge about a particular city or place.” Pictures, for Vergara, are the starting point in asking questions or linking to other images or investigating new territories and ideas. Continue reading »
Street Artists Cut The Abandoned Car Out Of Reality
Yekaterinburg (Russia) based street art team Stenograffia ain’t happy with abandoned Soviet cars left by their owners all around the city. Having no regrets but spray cans and spare hands they decided to “cut off” old clutters from the streets in the way every designer will approve. Continue reading »
Portuguese Street Artist Unveiled A Giant Rabbit Made Of Trash On The Streets Of Vila Nova De Gaia In Portugal
In town with the good people from Mistaker Maker, the Portugese artist Bordalo II (previously featured) unveiled this rather amazing piece which is entitled “Half Rabbit”. This may be our all time favorite Bordalo II piece to date! As usual the piece was created using found materials and trash gathered around the city. Half of the piece is left unpainted and shows the elements’ original colors. Continue reading »
Street Artist Greg Suits Turns An Abandoned Building Into A Giant Skull
The street artist Greg Suits, aka Suitswon, transformed an abandoned building into a giant skull, perfectly using the gaping holes of the half-collapsed wall. An excellent creation located in New York, in the district of Greenpoint. Continue reading »
Bulgarian Street Artist Brings Life To Broken Streets With Funky Googly Eyes
Googly eyes are pretty awesome. There’s something about the crude, cartoonish depiction of an eye that adds life to everything they’re put on. One Bulgarian street artist, Vanyu Krastev, takes a very simple approach to his work: He takes something he comes across—usually something that’s broken down in an urban environment—and humanizes it by sticking a pair of eyes on it. Continue reading »
Amazing Street Art Installations That Cleverly Interact With Nature
StepArt
Street art is there to surprise and inspire us, to shake up the often dull urban environments in which it can usually be found in order to give us a fresh perspective on our otherwise familiar neighborhoods and streets. But sometimes street art goes one step further than that by not only altering the world around it, but actually interacting with it. Continue reading »
Street Artist Martin Whatson Incorporates Grayscale Characters Into His Colorful Murals
Martin Whatson is a Norwegian born and based stencil artist. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. This interest for decay has helped develop his style, motives and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, motives and human intervention. Continue reading »
Stunning Street Photos Capture Simple Joys Of Life In New York Right After WWII
Born in 1905 and raised in Detroit, American street photographer Todd Webb led an adventurous life. After losing his money in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, he spent time fruitlessly prospecting for gold until returning to his hometown and picking up a camera in 1938. It was there he found his calling. After working as a Navy photographer during WWII, Webb moved to New York City and, in 1946, started documenting post-war New York. Continue reading »
