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Table of Contents

Interview with Terri Gold

Atlantic City

City Life

LACP Street Photography Around the World Winners

LACP Street Photography Around the World Finalists

Photographing the Homeless: Art or Exploitation?

Street Shooters of May 2021

Atlantic City

Jeff Wiles

Although I don’t think good street photography requires a project/series context, over time I have compiled a collection of photos that defines the place we call Atlantic City. It’s one of my favorite places to shoot street.

Atlantic City isn’t a microcosm of anything. Its culture is unique, in a mainly unflattering way. It is a city of extremes that happens to border the Atlantic Ocean. It’s what happens when countless promises to share the wealth are broken.

At any given time, its population is largely comprised of the ultra-rich, the ultra-poor, the thousands of middle-income recreational gamblers — and those who make a meager living serving them all.

Originally scratch-built as the USA’s first seashore resort, the ocean now is little more than an afterthought. Atlantic City’s several-mile stretch of seashore is practically devoid of bathers. Signs remind board-walkers that the ocean is only a few hundred feet away.

The rich brush elbows with the destitute. Lavish casinos are juxtaposed with row house squalor. Hints of the grandeur that was can be glimpsed through the crumbling architecture that still stands. The boardwalk is a constant parade of Boardwalk beggars, Boardwalk hustlers, Boardwalk prey.

Jeff Wiles

Jeff Wiles’ edgy composites and “street” genre photographs have earned him numerous awards, exhibitions, and publication. Jeff’s work has been included in six Pennsylvania “Art of the State” exhibitions; juried exhibits at the New York Center for Photographic Arts, NYC; Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Darkroom Gallery, Vermont; PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont; the Pennsylvania Center for Photography; the Southeast Center for Photography; the Midwest Center for Photography; “InVision” Juried Exhibition at the Banana Factory Arts Center, Bethlehem, Pa., “FOCUS” Juried Exhibition at the Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Md., the “Photo Review” international competition, and numerous solo and two-person showings. He was a Spotlight Award Winner in the 2019 Black and White magazine 2019 Portfolio Contest. He was also a Black and White magazine 2018 Single Image Contest winner in three categories. He was named a winner in two categories of Black and White magazine's 2017 Single Issue Competition and was "spotlighted" in the October 2017 issue. He has received numerous awards and recognitions in local and international competitions. His photos have been published in Black & White, SHOTS, COLOR, Photographer’s Forum, The Sun, and AfterCapture magazines, “The Washington Post”, and YourDailyPhotograph.com.

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Articles
May 2021

Interview with Terri Gold

See places you've never been before through Terri Gold's infrared lens.

Atlantic City

Jeff Wiles explores a city of broken promises that just happens to border the Atlantic Ocean.

City Life

Half composed, half spontaneous, Martin Agius' images make city life something beautiful.

LACP Street Photography Around the World Winners

Photos by the winners of this 2021 LACP contest.

LACP Street Photography Around the World Finalists

Images by the talented finalists of this 2021 LACP competition.

Photographing the Homeless: Art or Exploitation?

Is it ever ok to photograph the homeless? Hear what John Simpson thinks.

Street Shooters of May 2021

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