Metro Collective is an international coalition of independent photographers, united by common values and a shared dedication to the expressive documentary spirit, where authorship and a personal visual aesthetic are grounded in humanistic stories and themes. Metro represents the individual visions of our members, a common platform for our long-term projects and our best, most personal work. Source: http://www.metrocollective.org/ Today we present you with yet another stand out collective
Collectives You Should Know About: Full Frontal Flash
Full Frontal Flash is something of a niche collective, built around a group of street photographers who have a passion for hitting the streets with a flash gun. Here's a snippet from their website describing what they are all about: "For a vast majority of photographers, their story starts when they first pick up a camera. Ours came a bit later; when we first picked up a flash gun. For some of us, it was seeing the work of Richard Sandler or Bruce Gilden, the raw style of Weegee, for others
Collectives You Should Know About: World Street Photography
If you haven't heard about WSP, check them out today. This open collective is all about giving back to the worldwide community by using their talents to raise profits for charities. Here's just one example of what this talented and generous group of people is doing: The Ubuntu Project Ubuntu means "people are people through other people." This concept is a perfect fit for the Kujaja photography team and their contributing photographers who undertook a special project. Generously donated
Collectives You Should Know About: OnEdgeStreet
There's a new collective in town and it looks like it's going to be a great one. You may recognize the following names: David Valera, Gabi Ben Avraham and MD. Enamul Kabir, just to mention a few. These talented photographers, who appeared in SPM and the SPM blog, along with approximately 20 other phenomenal street photographers have banded together to create OnEdgeStreet.com. OnEdgeStreet describes their project as follows: "OnEdgeStreet.com is a new website about exploring the cutting
Collectives You Should Know About: Observe
I came across Observe thanks to one of our featured street photographers of the week, Hillol Choudhury. He told me about how their amazing Flickr groups Street Fight and Street & Repeat had helped him to seriously improve his skills as a street photographer. If you haven't visited these groups yet, do so today. Through these groups, Observe provides a forum for discussion and critique of street photographs aimed to assist street photographers (especially newbies) to grow and develop their
Street Collectives You Should Know About: SPontanea
Last week, we did a featured street photographer of the week post about Emilio Barillaro. A few month's ago, we did a post about the upcoming Miami Street Photography Festival in December. (Speaking of, if you haven't submitted your entries to the MSPF, you've only got a few days left to do so folks!) What do these two posts have in common? SPontanea, an amazing collective of Italian street photographers. Not only is SPontanea one of the MSPF's featured collectives this year, it is the