As a long time actor, Maria Ricossa knows people. You could say she's an expert on human behavior. She has spent a considerable amount of time thinking about what makes different kinds of people and characters tick, and she uses this ability to her advantage when she hits the streets of Toronto where she now resides. Interestingly enough, Maria doesn't spend much of her time shooting Toronto's bustling city center. Instead, she stays a little closer to home and captures everyday stories she
Harvey Stein’s 2019 NYC Street Photography Workshop
Exciting news street shooters! After quite a long pause, Harvey Stein and Margarita Mavromichalis are hosting another street photography workshop in the big apple. Here's some details from Harvey himself, "I’ve done the five previous workshops with Margarita Mavromichalis-October 2013 and 2016 and April 2014, 2015 and 2016. Each was at the request of several students, and all were quite wonderful and successful. Which leads us to offer the workshop once more, after about a 2 ½ year pause. I
The City (And a Few Lonely People): A Group Show
"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people," - Olivia Laing This story starts with Olivia Laing, the author of The Lonely City (Picador: New York City, 2016). Her book, which some have described as part autobiography/part art history, came to exist after a particularly painful end to an intense relationship took Olivia from her native England to New York City. There, though surrounded by
Open Call for Short Street Stories
dotART cultural association through the Exhibit Around platform and together with Trieste Photo Days festival, has extended their open call deadline for the project Short Street Stories. You can now enter the contest until February 28, 2019! If you are a street storytelling legend (or you've at least captured a few legendary shots) head over to enter. Here's what you need to know about the contest: Exhibit Around says, "We are looking for street photographers to participate with single
Cosmos by Cristóbal Carretero
A few months ago, in an interview with Nancy Lehrer, we talked about the fact that as street photography (specifically in Cuba) becomes more widely practiced and shown, in order to take images that stand out, it becomes necessary to dig deep into the culture and get under the skin of a place. That's definitely one way to create a solid set of images, but as they say, there's more than one way to skin a cat (ew). In his project "Cosmos," Cristóbal Carretero takes another approach, which is to
Best of Street Shooters of the Month 2018
The Street Shooters of the Month feature has been going strong in Street Photography Magazine since our second issue, which was published in June of 2013. Our setup was a little different in those first few issues, but these days we get heaps of submissions through our website each month. So many of them come from such talented street photographers that it is often hard to choose which ones to publish. Speaking of difficult decisions, choosing our favorite street shooters images from 2018 was
Building a Cohesive Body of Work with Carmine Groe
Just this week, Bob and I had the pleasure of speaking with Carmine Groe, a Toronto based street photographer. Carmine is not only a talented street shooter with some wicked post processing skills, he's also become quite adept at YouTubing over the past couple of years. Carmine's YouTube channel is called Groe Photography and regarding his videos he says the goal is to communicate "all the wonders of photography and my process, as well as sharing my knowledge by providing insights and
Londoners by Alex Amorós
Ok street shooters, take a moment to appreciate this amazingly well done video by Alex Amorós: https://vimeo.com/305988853 So, what's it all about? Alex says, ""Londoners" is a project of portraits carried out over three years on the streets of this city. A few years ago, while living here a person stopped me, took my photo and changed my life. After some time observing people, so diverse and lacking communication amongst them in this city, I decided I was going to stop people and take
Best of Street Photography Magazine 2018
While many people are saying "good riddance" to 2018, for Street Photography Magazine we're sad to see it go. 2018 was a great year for the magazine, which saw a spectacular line up of street photographers and images. In fact, I'd wager this year we had some of our best content to-date. In this episode of the Street Photography Magazine podcast, we look back on last year and talk about our favorite articles, featured photographers and lessons we learned from some of our guests. And not only
Best Practices for Your Online Portfolio
Earlier this month, Bob talked about Why it’s Important to Have Your Own Online Photography Portfolio on the podcast. He discussed some of the reasons why creating an online portfolio is vital if you want your work to be discovered and appreciated by others. While you may understand the reasons having an online portfolio is important, you may not feel equipped to take on the task. After all, for those of us who are not “techie” by nature (Ashley speaking here, obviously), setting up a website
Enter the SPM Night Street Photography Contest to Win a Portfolio Website!
It's still portfolio month guys! And if you haven't heard, we're doing a special street photography contest this year with an AMAZING prize! As you know, the goal of portfolio month is to help you create an online portfolio of your work - the first step towards getting seen and making the switch from hobby to career too. This month we've been focusing on one online portfolio service in particular - Portfoliobox. What are some things we love about Portfoliobox? It's user friendly, completely