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Seconds2Real

Relaunch of Seconds2Real website The website of the Seconds2Real street photography group has recently be relaunched. The website got a new look and updated member galleries. Seconds2Real is a well-known street photography co-operative of eleven passionated austrian and german street photographers aiming to promote street photography from their countries. http://www.seconds2real.com/

Taranto Vecchia [South ITaly]

Video of street shot in Taranto Vecchia, my hometown in south of Italy.

Why street photography is facing a moment of truth

Sean O’Hagan The Observer, Sunday 18 April 2010 It took root in New York in the 60s and 70s with compelling images of street life that captured the heart of the city. But anxieties about privacy, terrorism, and paedophilia have conspired to make the art of street photography ever more difficult. Sean O’Hagan recalls the [...]

 

Jeff Mermelstein

Video about a street photographer : Jeff Mermelstein.

Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers Klavdij Sluban

Interview with, and photographs by Klavdij Sluban Since 1995, French photographer Klavdij Sluban has been conducting photography workshops for juveniles who are imprisoned in jails around the world. In this 8-minute video, Sluban talks with Jim Casper of Lens Culture about this work, and shares some of the photographs he has made in jails in [...]

Ten years of in-public

The book is produced by Nick Turpin Publishing in London and designed by the award winning London design practice Hat-Trick. in-public are delighted to announce the publication of ‘10’, a hardback book of two hundred in-public Street Photographs from the last ten years. As far as we are aware this is the worlds first compilation [...]

 

Weegee Tells How

Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, was a New York city freelance news photographer from the 1930s to the 1950s. Here he talks about his career and gives advice to those wanting to become news photographers. Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), an Austrian-born American photographer and [...]

Daido Moriyama

Daidō Moriyama (born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. Born in Ikeda, Osaka, he studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō [...]

The Genius of Photography

Programme 4: Paper Movies The three decades from the late 1950s onwards was the real golden age of photographic journeys. Programme 4 relives the journeys that produced some of the ‘greatest paper movies’ ever: Including Robert Frank’s odyssey through 50s America and William Klein’s one-man assault on the sidewalks of New York. It also examines [...]

 

Natalie Merchant – Carnival

Video clip of Natalie Merchant shooting in the streets Natalie Anne Merchant (born October 26, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.

This Mess We’re in with Trent Parke

The song “this mess we’re in” by pj harvey and thom yorke combined with the photographes of trent parke, from his dream/life exhibition. Born in Newcastle, Australia in 1971, Trent Parke now lives in Adelaide, the only Australian photographer in the celebrated Magnum group. Trent won the prestigious W Eugene Smith Award for humanistic photography [...]

Steve Mccurry: Arts and Minds

A clip featuring Steve McCurry.