What if street photography is less like making art and more like playing a sport? This month’s Subscriber Spotlight features Paul Kessel, who picked up a camera at nearly 70 and found himself hooked on the failures, surprises and occasional “hits” that keep us going. Plus, a thought from Berenice Abbott and a look at what’s ahead at SPM.
Category Archive: Issue 173
Meet the Street Shooters of September 2026, a selection of standout images shared by photographers in the Street Photography Magazine community this month.
What can Stoicism teach us about street photography? Samuel Ioannidis reflects on patience, attention, letting go of control and choosing to keep going.
A photographer explores Portland at dawn, using soft light and urban geometry to reveal the changing character of the city through architectural photography.
When do you get to call yourself a photographer? An artist? After a deeply personal trip through the UK and Ireland, Scott Fecteau considers what happens when we stop chasing praise and make photographs simply because they mean something to us.
Michael Rababy returned to Arles expecting another week immersed in photography. He got that, plus nearly 50 pounds of photobooks, a run-in with the city’s poster rules, and one seriously brutal heat wave. Here’s his very personal tour of Arles 2026.
Decades after John Baer’s death, thousands of his photographs revealed a remarkable body of work and gave his son a new way to know the man behind the camera.