Spectacular Winning Photos Of AAP Magazine Awards “Shapes 2024”
Winner: ‘Interpolation’ by Sander Vos (Netherlands)
The winning photos of the AAP Magazine Awards “Shapes 2024” demonstrate the photographers’ creativity and skill in using shapes to enhance visual storytelling. From abstract forms to architectural details, the selected works showcase how mastering shape transforms ordinary scenes into stunning compositions that captivate and evoke emotion. Continue reading »
Wild Animals On The Streets Of European Cities In Photo Collages By Česlovas Česnakevičius
Lithuanian artist Česlovas Česnakevičius (previously) enjoys creating photomontages depicting wild animals roaming the streets of European cities. Continue reading »
Spectacular Street-Winning Photos From The 2024 reFocus Color Photography Awards
Gold: Dancing with the gigant of the hell by Antonio Flores
The 2024 reFocus Color Photography Awards have honored outstanding achievements in street photography, showcasing vibrant and dynamic images from across the globe. Renowned for their focus on color and composition, these awards attracted submissions from photographers who captured the essence of urban life in unique and creative ways. Continue reading »
Dystopian Tokyo at Night in Captivating Photos by Takaaki Ito
Exploring a city can be uniquely insightful through the lens of photographers who traverse its streets at night, capturing stunning and spontaneous images. Continue reading »
This Artist Transforms Cityscapes into Funny Whimsical Installations
Amsterdam’s streets come alive with a touch of whimsy thanks to Frankey, a local artist who transforms the ordinary into extraordinary. Continue reading »
Exploring the Enduring Legacy and Emotional Depth of Leonid Afremov’s Ethereal Landscapes and Rain-Slick Streets
Leonid Afremov was a masterful contemporary artist known for his vibrant landscapes and cityscapes created with a palette knife and oil paints. Continue reading »
Alariko’s Paintings Bring Us to The Colorful Stillness of Summer
The light, the food, the smells, the company of acquaintances and strangers… everything feels and tastes better at a time when the heat presses and the days seem eternal. Continue reading »
The Unique Style of Jose Gallego Gallego’s Fallas Art
Jose Gallego Gallego, born on February 21, 1980, in Gandia, is a renowned Fallas artist. He began his career at the age of eighteen, apprenticing under notable artists like José Sanchis, Palacio, Serra, and Pere Baenas. Continue reading »
Brolga’s Travel Series: Fun Characters Doodled in Streets and Cityscapes
Color adds excitement to cities, and Australian artist Brolga captures this vibrancy through his unique art. He creatively infuses his travel photos with bright, doodled characters, starting this project in 2016 to give more life to his travel memories. This idea grew, incorporating his friends’ and professional photographers’ travel images worldwide. Continue reading »
Life Before iPods: 26 Vintage Photographs Show the Heyday of Boombox in New York City From the 1980s
Those of us who lived in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s can testify to the very serious quality of life issues – graffiti covered subways, vandalism, garbage, crime, noise, drugs. The streets were minefields of dog poop just waiting for the next victim, those unfamiliar with the terrain or seasoned New Yorkers who had a momentary lapse of attention to the sidewalks. It was a very rough time and not the promised land at all. Continue reading »
Artist Makes Super Awkward Flyers And Hang Them In The Streets
According to Bert Musketon: “Hello, I am Bert Musketon and I am a visual artist based in Belgium. I love awkward stuff or situations, so I came up with the concept of Awkward Flyers. I try to communicate a random joke in one image. I put in a lot of time and effort, to be honest. Coming up with ideas, printing the flyer, going out, and pasting them on the streets. But, it’s super fun!” Continue reading »
Cozy Streets and Dreamy Clouds in Illustrations by Alariko
Alariko is an artist from Spain who paints cozy streets and dreamy landscapes. They are so airy and pleasant that you want to lose yourself in them forever. Continue reading »
Thoughts, Hopes And Disappointments in Kyiv: A Street Photographer’s Photos of Ukraine, 2001-2021
Born in Eastern Ukraine in 1954, Juri Nesterov’s photographs show us life in Kyiv, the country’s capital city. “Though I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1976, I have always had a passion for photography and arts and after a short stint in engineering became a full-time photographic artist,” says Juri. Continue reading »
Dystopian Streets Of Seattle In Gloomy Photographs By Tek
Tek is a Seattle, WA based street photographer. His creative passion aims to capture the emotions of the street’s untold stories. Continue reading »
London in 1982: Among the Sloane Rangers, New Wavers And Everyday People
Sunil Gupta (born 1953) is an Indian-born Canadian photographer, based in London. His career has been spent “making work responding to the injustices suffered by gay men across the globe, himself included”, including themes of sexual identity, migration, race and family. Continue reading »
59 Accidentally Brilliant Shots By Edas Wong
“There’s no such thing as a coincidence,” they say, yet many little moments we encounter every day just seem more like happy (or unhappy) accidents rather than anything else. Especially if you have an eye for these things like Edas Wong. Continue reading »
Street: Winners & Merit Awards Of AAP Magazine’s Photo Contest
The Winner: Denis Karasev, Russia
Here are the winners & merit awards of the 22nd edition of AAP Magazine’s Photo Contest. AAP reveals the names of the 25 talented photographers who won AAP Magazine #22: Streets. They come from 14 different countries and 4 continents! Continue reading »
Artist Creates Colorful Illustrations Of Inviting And Cozy Japanese Houses
Have you ever heard of “Virtual Plein Air”? It is a term used to describe an act of creating art inspired by Google Street Views. Artists literally look for exciting or interesting places they can then use as a source for their illustrations. Continue reading »
Fascinating Black and White Pictures of New York Street Life in the Late 1960s
These pictures were taken by James Jowers, an American street photographer. Jowers began receiving training in photography and darkroom techniques while serving in the United States Army. Continue reading »
25 Winners & Finalists Of LensCulture 2021 Street Photography Awards
1st Place Series: Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro by Argus Paul Estabrook
Here are the winners and finalists of the LensCulture 2021 Street Photography Awards.
On the heels of a global pandemic, with cities around the world reopening little by little, we wondered what the 2021 Street Photography Awards would show us. Would images be celebratory, with photographers reveling in the closeness of passersby after more than a year of solitude? Or would they remain eerily quiet and uncertain? Continue reading »
Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1990s
At the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. Following two decades of continuous decay, 1990 brought yet another all-time record high in violent crime and to this day, 1990 and the three years that followed remain the most homicide-plagued stretch in the city’s last five decades. The 1990s had quickly positioned itself to become the city’s worst decade yet. Continue reading »
“Moments Around the World”: Amazing Cinematic Travel and Street Photography by Billy Dinh
Billy Dinh is a travel and street photographer based in New York City. Also an illustrator and painting, he accidentally got into photography when he bought his first camera with the intention of only capturing reference photos for his art work. Continue reading »
Accidentally Brilliant Shots By Edas Won
There’s a saying that if you let a monkey write random stuff, eventually it will write Shakespeare’s Hamlet. If you transfer the analogy to photography, it would be something like this: if you see tons of random stuff, you’ll eventually see something that might look intentional, sublime, and even brilliant. Continue reading »
Amazing Snapshots Capture Street Life in New York City From the Mid-1930s to the End of the 1940s
In the late 1930s, photographer Helen Levitt rode the New York City subway system, first as an apprentice to photographer Walker Evans, then snapping photos of aloof passengers wearing fur coats, flat-brim hats, and antique brooches. Continue reading »
This Instagram Account Documents a World of Anonymous Street Style in New York
We’ve all seen those “candid” paparazzi shots of celebrities. They know they’re going to be photographed, so they come armed with a strategic (and eye-catching) ensemble, which is often executed by a professional stylist. But the next time you’re wandering around Manhattan and hear the sound of a camera shutter going off, watch out for photographer Johnny Cirillo—because he could be taking your picture, not a celebrity’s. Continue reading »
