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Editorial Team

Batsceba Hardy — Editor-in-chief

Michael Kennedy
Fabio Balestra
Keef Charles
and in this issue
Pacho Coulchinsky

Contributors

Corinne Spector, I was born in 1961 in Morocco, but arrived in Israel at the age of nine months. I spent my childhood in Jaffa yet grew up in Bat Yam. I currently live in Sholam. I was always a storyteller; I am the eldest of six sisters, and I always invented and told them stories. My passion for photography was born a long time ago. It seems I always had a camera but I never really learned to take photos. I always documented my daily life, and that of my family, and with my camera, I wanted to tell stories.

Frans Kemper, I am a semi-retired corporate gypsy and a professional stranger. Born and raised in the lovely Amsterdam in The Netherlands and at present residing in São Paulo, Brazil. Before ending up in São Paulo in 2003, I lived and worked for around two decades in the Caribbean and the Unites States. I am also a passionate photographer since his early teenager years. A passion passed on by my father.

Juancho Dominguez, I am an amateur photographer and I live in Caracas, my activity is focused, at the moment, on street photography, trying to somehow reflect the pulse of my city, the coming and going of its people in the day to day, its light, its shadows, colours and in a way its architecture. I like the street because it is a world that changes every second. I do not claim anything else that I will give in life.

Lucas Inke, I was born in San Pablo, Brazil 35-years ago. I have lived in Rio de Janeiro, the "Wonderful City," for five years, where I started shooting more frequently. There I started with fashion photography and photo essays. Then I installed a studio in my apartment, which generated a lot of work.  In my personal search, I began to photograph more everyday scenes on the street, which soon became a passion. I usually use a Canon T3i and fixed lenses such as 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, and sometimes an ultra-wide 10-20mm lens. It is the art of constant observation, preferably trying to anticipate the critical moment, so that when this happens I have my finger ready for the decisive moment.

Michael Kennedy, is an American photographer, writer, and reconteur who lives in Seoul. Although photography has always been his passport into other worlds, he has also managed to write hundreds of love letters to several women with names that begin with “S”.

Pacho Coulchinsky, I'm not a professional photographer but an Architect who loves photography. When I was 4 years old I suffered a really bad accident and as a result I lost all the vision from my left eye. I do not remember what is like to have binocular vision and therefore both depth and full vision perception. Perhaps this is the reason why the action of looking and focusing was something that obsessed me from childhood, especially when facing a child’s fear that the possibility of being completely blind was always kind of lurking in there.

Rainer Neumann, My name is Rainer Neumann. I am married and live in Ludwigshafen / Germany. I was born 1960 in Rastatt / Germany. Went to school there until 1979. In 1979 I started my studies of „Tonmeister“ at the „Hochschule der Künste“ (today University of Music) in Berlin with the final exams in 1986. Since 1986 I am working as a Sound Engineer for the Südwestrundfunk (German Public Broadcast station) doing recordings of classical orchestral music. I came to photography in my early twenties but did never more than the usual holiday shootings. In 2016 Street Photography crossed my life and I fell in love with that genre of art.

René Stuardo, I have lived in Santiago de Chile (Chile) for 52-years - my entire life. I feel like a real Chilean, and I’ve established an intense relationship with my beloved country. I travel a lot and this makes me appreciate Chile more and more. My grandfather was a great photographer, and he was the one who gave me an analogue Yashica camera. And from a young age, he instilled in me the importance of light as a leitmotif in photography.  I studied drawing and advertising photography, which was fundamental for me. I conceive Street Photography as the essential tool to capture life, reality; in short: the truth of life as we see it and it moves us when we see that we have achieved a good take.

Ximena Echagüe I grew up in Buenos Aires, became a photographer in Europe and I am now living between New York and Brussels. My life has influenced the way I look at the people around me. I have always lived in big cities with a large floating population, which naturally led me to empathize with them. We are all migrants in different ways, moving around trying to improve our lot in life. I try to capture this human dynamic in my photography, made of hopes fulfilled or shattered, with its drama and contradictions. The odyssey of human life.

and Sara Facio – (Born in Argentina in 1932) She is best known for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar, María Elena Walsh and Alejandra Pizarnik. Facio also was instrumental in establishing a publishing house for photographic work in Latin America and for the creation of a prominent photographic exhibition space in Argentina.

Concept: Batsceba Hardy

Cover photo: Corinne Spector

Graphic Design: Emanuel Fernández

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#17

Cover by Irina Escoffery / 40 pages

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It’s difficult to say to what extent our lives will be changed by this pandemic. It’s hard to predict when we can finally relax and count the cost.

What we do know, however, is that many people pulled together to get through it.

We recognised that here at Progressive, we had a part to play in helping people; to express their hopes and fears. Our Challenge drew an incredible response and a real mix of shots and raw emotion gave us an insight into what people were collectively going through.

More than that though, we wanted to do something more lasting. We drew together articles and images to bear witness to this unique time in our lives.

Here is our testament: a special issue of our magazine: COVID19

Keef Charles, The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death

Bruno Lavi, Corona Department at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem

Shimi Cohen, This is the mask I wore

Simon Gradwell, Willow

Michael Kennedy, Two-Week in quarantine in South Korea

Keef Charles, Confinement

And photos by

Shimi Cohen, Never Edit, Khit Tayza Aung, Corinne Spector, Ilan Ben Yehuda, Fabio Balestra, Noorhadi Saleh, Delfim Correlo, Sayem Hasan, Debby Masamba, Pascal Colin, Binit Tanna, Juan Londoño, Daniel Antunes, Batsceba Hardy, Michael Kennedy, Eko Yulianto

Back Cover by Richard Keshen

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#16

Cover by Julia Coddington / 80 pages

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A varied number, full of surprises: a New York you've never seen, thanks to photos by Dimitri Mellos, the crazy and fascinating Sydney of Julia Coddington, Dhaka seen by the young and talented Abrar Asad, discovered by Progressive, the shades of Glasgow by our David Goold, full of intelligent humour, the social Berlin with a thousand faces, always different, by Carsten Osterwald, and finally the fascinating project of our Siddhartha Mukherjee.

IN THIS ISSUE

Understanding life through photography Street photography is my way of telling people to pay attention; pay attention to the beauty and magic of everyday moments that happen all the time, all around us. Unfortu- nately, most people are too absorbed in themselves, or too absorbed in the little screens of their phones, to actually open their eyes and look around. The message I want to convey through street photography is this: open your eyes — be interested in the world, not in yourself. - Dimitri Mellos

I love street photography Another reason I love street photography is because it doesn’t require sophisticated and heavy equipment, and you can do it anywhere. I have also discovered that as a woman, I have an added advantage and power as a street photographer, because my invisibility enables me to get very close to subjects and work a scene without being noticed. - Julia Coddington

The Story Initially, I used my cellphone for street photography, yet soon switched to a DSLR because I wanted to be serious. This switch in approach allowed me to better respond to the expressions of people on the street: from joyous happiness to overwhelm- ing sadness. Every moment offers a potential story — if we remain open to the possibilities. - Abrar Asad

Shades of Glasgow It was during my trips to London that I developed an interest in street photography. My Scottish-born landscape style adapted to suit London’s modern architecture, bustling, expensive streets and attractive, exotic faces. Humorous advertisement juxtapositions and coffee shop window clichés abounded in my attempts to record the slick, fast-moving world around me. Everything is fine in that affluent world; not so in Glasgow. Of course, Glasgow has its large international stores like every Western city. And Glaswegians stare out of Starbucks’ windows just as Londoners, Parisians and New Yorkers do. - David Goold

I love Berlin You can go to the same place 20 times in Berlin... you will never experience the same situation or see the same person... and that is exactly what Berlin is all about! - Carsten Osterwald

Reflections on City Life - Canto II As part of my ongoing project, Reflections on City Life, I continue my exploration of the intermingling of urban envi- ronments with their inhabitants, using double exposure film photography, across different cities and cultures. - Siddhartha Mukherjee

And pics by: Jim Darke, João Coelho, Takaaki Ishikura, Snehasish Bodhak, Delfim Correlo, Theodoros Topalis, Frans Kemper

Dimitri Mellos was born in Athens, Greece, but since 2005 has been living in New York City. He is a self-taught photographer who works mainly on long- term, self-initiated projects. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally and has garnered several prestigious awards and accolades, including being a Finalist for the Magnum Expression Award and the Visura Grant, and a Juror’s Pick at the Lensculture Magnum Photography Awards. In 2019, he was featured in the book Masters of Street Photography (UK, Ammonite Press).

Julia Coddington is an internationally recognised street photographer from Australia. Co-founder of the Unexposed Collective (with Rebecca Wiltshire), an online platform featuring Australian women and non-binary street photographers. She is also an administrator of @womeninstreet, a growing international community of women street photographers.

Abrar Asad (30 running, unmarried, MBA running) works at Ericsson's project Under 20cube logistics Ltd, a telecommunication site. He lives in Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh, a developing country, as he called it.

David Goold A full-time geologist and lunchtime photographer interested in many photographic genres. Scotland. UK-based, his passion lies in street photography.

Carsten Osterwald born in 1965 in Berlin, currently lives in Baden Württemberg. For photography he commutes constantly between Bangkok (Thailand) and Saigon (Vietnam). The trained project manager has been working part-time as a street photographer for over 15 years. Some of his pictures won international competitions, were printed in magazines and were exhibited at the Photokina.

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an avid street photography enthusiast. Originally from India, he got drawn to this style of photography during his bachelors in engineering around a decade ago. He has been constantly experimenting with his street photography style and approach over the years.He uses both digital and analog photography for his work, and greatly enjoys developing and printing in the darkroom. By profession, He is a scientist/engineer, and recently graduated with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from TU Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked on simulating turbulent emulsions

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#15

Cover by Shimi Coehn / 208 pages

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We have dedicated a number to Israeli photographers because they are certainly among the most interesting in the world right now.

In this issue, twenty-five photographers, each with their own personality, reveal their beautiful and sunny country, moving between modernity and tradition.

At the same time, they show us the world through their eyes; because Israelis are great travellers, with great sensitivity.

Anat Shushan, Aviram Bar-Akiva, Bruno Lavi, Corinne Spector, Dafna Yosha, Dana Caspi, Dov Oron, Gabi Ben Avraham, Ilan Ben Yehuda, Kevin Unger, Lil Steinberg, Maya Rahamim, Miki Schauder, Neta Dekel, Ohad Aviv, Omri Shomer, Ori Levi, Orna Naor, Raviv Meyouhas, Sagi Kortler, Shimi Cohen, Vered Sadot, Yael Gadot, Yulia Olshansky, Zohar Ferro

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Cover by Keef Charles / 64 pages

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Bekawan Village and surroundings by Bob Matkodak

It was Thursday morning August 22, 2019, I woke up at 6:15 a.m. and glanced at my cellphone, which I always keep near where I sleep.
I had missed two calls. Since I was speaking with my best friend until 3:30 a.m., I really slept well, and didn’t hear anything.

I called my best friend immediately, and asked what was wrong. He told me that a big fire had occurred in the market, starting at about 1:30 a.m. that lasted three hours, until the fire department brought it under control, with help from the community.

By 6:30 a.m., I was on my motorcycle, bound for the ruins of the market – a short drive of 1.5 km. The scene was shocking. I immediately took photos from various angles. The city looked like it that had just been bombed, like the atmosphere of war. There I learned that the stalls and shop houses that burned totaled 485, but fortunately there were no casualties.

Lincoln Steampunk Festival by Keef Charles

My favourite quote of the weekend was from a lady, dressed in her Steampunk garb, talking to a friend, similarly dressed. Seems she’d nipped away from the day’s proceedings to see to her dog. It amused me when I overheard her remark: “I think I’ve discovered how hard it is to walk a dog in a corset”. Hehe. A salutary lesson.
The Steampunk participation starts slowly, so slowly you don’t realise you’re being drawn in to this world.
First the hat and goggles. Then a waistcoat, perhaps.
As I slip down the slope toward embracing Steampunk, I’ll have to make choices. Best not take my dog to an event – or – make sure my costume doesn’t include a corset. Life is never simple. By the way, I don’t have a dog at this stage.

You can walk, right! Well then, you can dolpa by Harrie Miller

But it was difficult as I say, I had only a half handful of Nepalese words in my vocabulary he not many more in English. Regardless, we became friends even if only by proxy through mutual knowing, some of the others, in this strange, friendly and jovial game of cards. The next morning on my way out of his village we happened upon each other. Instinctively we exchanged words, a Namaste, he added a word to the end of his greeting which translates to ‘old man or father’ and smiled, we shook hands, embraced and parted. I still feel humbled, even now, when I think of that!

A good thing is a work that makes the viewers feel “Wow!” by Takashi Tachi

What I care about the most when taking a picture is the light and the shape of objects. If there is a characteristic light, I will try to make a work using that light well. For example, light shining between buildings or reflection from the road surface. I always care about the people who come and go at the stations and in the streets. And how people line up and move. I think that a photograph is almost imagined before being actually taken.

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