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Swedish Artist Group Called Anonymouse Continues To Create Tiny Houses For Mouses The Around City

Anonymouse (previously) is an anonymous group of artists who spread magic all throughout the streets of Sweden by building these adorable mini houses for mouses and displaying them in public. Continue reading »

“Everyday Train Life:” Daily Life Of Japan In Black And White Photographs By Pak Han

Pak Han is an award-winning photographer, capturing the sublime and intrigue in the ordinary everyday life. He is most interested in photographing people, going about their daily rituals in urban surroundings. It is Han’s desire to tell stories through his photos and share his eye with the audience. Han had collaborated with numerous theatremakers and choreographers for over a decade, but he is now focusing most of his creative energy on street & documentary photography. Continue reading »

Beautiful Vintage Black And White Photos Of New York City In The Summer Of 1938

Children on 1st Avenue

Sheldon Dick

New York City in the summer of 1938 was wet. On June 28, 1.69 inches of rain fell on the city – a record for the date. On July 23, 2.40 inches of rain fell. Minding where they stepped, photographers Jack Allison, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans and Russell Lee photographed the city as pat of the Farm Security Administration’s aim to record American life between 1935 and 1944. Continue reading »

Beautiful Vintage Color Photos Of New York City In The 1950s

Pedestrians weave their way through traffic.

Ernst Haas is considered one of the pioneers of color photography and one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Taking up photography after World War II, his early work on the returning prisoners of war caught the attention of LIFE magazine. Continue reading »

Eugene Atget – The Photographer Who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Eugene Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. Continue reading »

Ready To Escape Whenever You Are: Moody And Cinematic Street Photography By Billy Dee

Stunning street scenes by Billy Dee, a gifted self-taught photographer, and urban explorer currently based in New York City. Billy focuses mainly on streets, urban, and street portraits. Continue reading »

Photographer Spent 3 Weeks In Japan And Captured Cyberpunk And Noir Film Inspired Photographs

According to a photographer Teemu Jarvinen: “I spent 3 weeks in Sapporo this January, shooting streets during snowstorms. I’ll share some of my favorite photos in this post. Continue reading »

A Road From The Eye To The Heart: Ephemeral Tales Of A Dreamy Roaming In Stunning Photographs Of Vianditya Dewanata

Vianditya Dewanata defines herself as a “visual storyteller”. Inspired by the nocturnal world, she walks through the streets of big cities searching for the right light and the most poetic moments. A collection of images as dark as they are colourful – ephemeral tales of a dreamy roaming. Continue reading »

Sublime Street Photographs Of Hong Kong In The 1950s And 1960s

Hong Kong is all about the food. The smell of delicious stuff, some of it unidentifiable only to Bellamists and delving biology professors and coroners, hangs in air so soupy and thick it seems to be keeping the new skyscrapers upright. I’m wrong, of course. Hong Kong is all about human life, which is everywhere, packed tightly and possessed of an atavistic self-containment – the closest thing modern humanity has to Babel, Jericho or maybe Sodom. Continue reading »

Fascinating Black And White Photos Capture Street Scenes Of Kyoto, Japan In 1974

Kyoto is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, it forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. Continue reading »

Photographer Al Mefer Snaps Beautiful Images Of Moroccan Streets At Night

Photographer Al Mefer (previously) is a visual artist based in Alicante, Spain. This last stunning series reveals a new side of Marocco: its nightlife. Through this original series, we discover a new scope of lights and colors, rarely associated with the country. Al Mefer is particularly attracted by supernatural images, and this series is not an exception. Pictures in “Moroccan Nights” are tainted with unreal colors, creating a supernatural atmosphere. Continue reading »

Striking Black And White Photographs Of New York City’s ‘Mean Streets’ In The 1970s And 1980s

Renowned photographer Edward Grazda began his career in that version of NYC. The black and white photos in Mean Streets offer a look at that desolate era captured with the deliberate and elegant eye that propelled Grazda to further success. It’s a version of New York that has been all but scrubbed clean in the financially solvent years that have followed, but the character of the city has been indelibly marked by the scars of those years. Continue reading »

“Lost In Translation”: Cinematic Street Photos Of Tokyo By Yusuke Kubota

Creative street shots by Yusuke Kubota, a gifted self-taught photographer, retoucher, and urban explorer based in Tokyo, Japan. Yusuke focuses mainly on urban and street photography. He explores the vivid street of Japan to capture striking urban landscapes. Continue reading »

Runner Uses The Streets Of San Francisco As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes

Jogging is a truly healthy activity for both physical and mental health; we all know this already. For some people, it comes naturally. For others, it’s either a struggle not worth contemplating or just a little, well, boring. Continue reading »

“Still Falls The Rain”: Photographer Danny Santos Captures People’s Emotions When It Rains

Danny is a photographer based in Singapore, specialising in portraiture, corporate, and advertising.

He focuses on people photography with a style consisting of candid energetic imagery and making it real and relatable. He appreciates team effort in creating the right images, and values working closely with his clients. Continue reading »

Australian Photographer Pat Kay Captures Magical And Cinematic Photos Of Japan

Amazing street photos in Japan by Pat Kay, a multi-talented photographer, drone pilot, and adventurer from Sydney, Australia. Pat specializes in travel and landscape photography. He shoots also a lot of street photography and cityscapes. Kay recently visited Japan to capture spectacular street landscapes. Continue reading »

Cyberpunk Street Photos In Hong Kong By Andy Knives

Fantastic street shots by Andy Knives, a talented photographer, and digital artist based in Hong Kong. Andy focuses mainly on urban and street photography. He shoots stunning urban landscapes with amazing lighting, tones, and colors. Continue reading »

Incredible Street Photography In New York By Jeff Silberman

Magical street photos by Jeff Silberman, a talented self-taught photographer, and urban explorer from New York. Jeff focuses mainly on urban, architecture, and street photography. He explores the streets of New York to capture stunning street scenes. Continue reading »

“Dark City Lights”: New York Through The Lens Of Ray H. Mercado

Fantastic street shots by Ray H. Mercado, a talented self-taught photographer, and urban explorer currently based in New York City. Ray focuses mainly on urban, architecture, and street photography. He likes to explore the streets of New York to capture magical street scenes. Continue reading »

“The Call Of The Void”: Polish Photographer Lukasz Palka Captures Streets Of Tokyo

Polish photographer Lukasz Palka explores his fascination with Tokyo in this series of captures taken from different rooftops all over the city. Continue reading »

“When Only Sadness Remains”: Moody Street Photography By Daniel Kraken

Creative street shots by Daniel Kraken, a talented self-taught photographer, retoucher, and urban explorer based in Toronto, Canada. Daniel focuses mainly on urban and street photography. Continue reading »

Photographer Cody Ellingham Captured These Stunning Series Of Images To Help Preserve The “Memories Of Shanghai’s Forgotten Streets”

As aging and ornately beautiful ‘Shikumen’ lane houses are torn down across Shanghai, a New Zealand photographer has set out on a mission to capture the historic streets before it’s too late. Continue reading »

Swedish Artist Is ‘Vandalizing’ Streets With His Stunning Pixel Art

Johan Karlgren, who goes by the artistic name Pappas Pärlor, is a Swedish urban artist who specializes in pixel art by creating figures with beads and integrating them into urban environments. His creations are fun to watch as each piece is created to interact with its surroundings making them stand out. Continue reading »

Photographer Jun Yamamoto Captures The Magic Of Japan Streets At Night

Vibrant night urban shots by Jun Yamamoto a.k.a. jungraphy, a talented self-taught photographer, and retoucher currently based in Tokyo, Japan. Jun focuses mainly on urban and street photography. Continue reading »

Paris Just Before WWII: Stunning Photos Capture Daily Life Of The French Capital In The 1930s

Café, Paris, 1930. (Photo by Alexander Artway)

After the First World War ended. The French economy boomed from 1921 until the Great Depression reached Paris in 1931. This period, called Les années folles or the “Crazy Years”, saw Paris reestablished as a capital of art, music, literature and cinema. Continue reading »