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Let’s be honest.

We may regret that occasional excess of alcohol, but we’re not some junkie, drugged, pitiful stupor in doorway.

We may feel we’re getting on in years, but we’re not confined to the loneliness of an old people’s home.

We may resent the daily grind of work at times but we’re not compelled to drag our families into health threatening work for a pittance we can barely live on.

We may even bemoan our daily tribulations but the trials we face are as nothing compared to the horrors of civil war, prolonged and life shattering .

Keef Charles

In loving memory of Julie Atchison and Ko Soe Naing

Anne Launcelott was born in Nottingham, England and immigrated to Ottawa, Canada with her family at the age of 3. Halifax, Nova Scotia has been home for over 30 years. For over 25 years, Anne worked mainly in black & white and set up a darkroom to develop and print her own work. Since 2005, she has made colour photography the main focus of her artistic expression after being introduced to Miksang contemplative photography by its developer and teacher Michael Wood. Anne has had numerous successful solo and group exhibitions and has had photographs chosen for publication. In November 2012, she was elected to the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) and in 2015 her B&W photograph, "Face at Window", Havana, Cuba was chosen Best of Show for the SCA's National Open Juried Online Exhibition.

João Coelho: My documentary photography is based in Angola, the country where I was born and to where I returned after an absence of over 30 years. Although the passion for photography has existed for many years, it only truly began to take shape from 2019, with a strong drive and motivation to tell the life and work stories of the people around me who are unknown to some and ignored by many. The human condition has always fascinated me and its study has been the main driver in my work. More than an aesthetic purpose, I intend my photography to trigger feelings, emotions, and convey messages, telling stories that depict suffering or joy, despair or mutual help, strength or disappointment, or simply the resilience of human beings in the face of the greatest adversities and the deepest doubts about their future. These are stories that need to be told and known!

Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and founder and former executive director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes over 39 years at various colleges, universities and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. For two decades, Julia concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past 11 years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. Julia's work has been published in many magazines, blogs, and books. Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska, and is the author/photographer of the award-winning children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. https://juliadean.com/

Margot Muir: I am a mature documentary photographer. I refer to W Eugene Smith’s quote “…and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future – causing them caution and remembrance and realization.”My lens expresses a love of life and celebrates the individual. And, at once, questions the status quo. I am a strong advocate for equal rights and have always been an activist for social justice, the rights of the vulnerable and black empowerment in South Africa. My work gives space for each individual to assert themselves and their presence in the world. https://www.margotmuir.com/

Ribhu Chatterjee: I am a final year student of Masters in Mass Communication and an aspiring photo/video journalist. Telling about a specific genre, I have tried to put my hands more on documentary photography. I have been covering stories by myself on various topics, related to the social, culture, tradition, the lifestyle of people from last 2 years. Since I like to travel so it is an added advantage for me to do the work. I like to document people, places, and traditions that can provide a unique story. Every people has a story to tell and I want them to do that through my picture.

Shimi Cohen 50 years old, based in Israel. I live in Kibbutz Givat Brener. Photography has been an important part of my life for the last five years. I roamed the streets taking photographs and developed my skills as a street photographer. Photography gives me a different way to observe the world. 18mm is the way to see the wide of the universe, 35mm is the way to see the life of the human. To take photos is my true love and passion and I strive to use my photos to tell a story. I am inspired by the life rhythms & constant flow of everything around me. I aim to expose the emotional side of human beings in the city streets, pushing the final image into a story. These days I concentrate most on documentary photography in series.

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#29

Cover by Keef Charles / 136 pages

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The British have a wonderful trait that unites them all, it’s a mixture of that ‘stiff upper lip’, humour and madness.

Despite having very formal language, an Englishman will never tell you directly that you are bothering him but he will tell you that he fears you are bothering him. You see, they are distinguished even by their extravagant use of language.

When I was little I wanted to marry a British writer, have a Morris Mini-Minor Traveller and five children, as well as many animals. I know that whilst that’s not very interesting to everyone, it serves to explain the love with which this number was built. I wanted to study in the UK, but my father's death meant I had to change my plans. So I went to the Island many years later. And my eldest daughter studied there for four years.

I wrote two books set in England, I breathed the countryside, the sea, the social differences. It’s a reality that ranges from Dickens' books to Ken Loach's films.

The title of this issue of the magazine - Weathering Heights - is a play on words between weather, the daily problem of the British, and the title of a masterpiece of world literature Wuthering Heights (by Emily Brontë), which in a certain sense also represents the spirit that pervades the Island.

We don't want to talk about stereotypes. Nor can we represent the reality of the UK with a single issue, but we want to give readers a taste of, a feeling for the British, discovered through the filter of our various photographers. Not all are British, but all have chosen to live on the island. And what emerges above all is the folly of these people, these descendants of conquerors.

Martin Parr is not the only one who can portray this madness. Our photographers, some more famous than others, are proof of this. It’s true to say that they all have, in different ways, a sociological vision. An interesting article by Anne Worthington, which is different in style from the others, introduces us to another, often unknown, aspect of British life.

In this issue, we offer more than just a glimpse of the island that wanted to break away from Europe. We offer the spirit of the British.

Thanks to Keef Charles who helped me put this number together

Keef Charles, I was born in 1958. As kids whose father was in Royal Air Force, we travelled a lot, home and abroad. He loved to use his camera. For a number of years, I worked for foreign companies, travelling fairly extensively as part of my job. Living and working abroad has made a difference in how I perceive and view things. Looking at life through the lens has always felt special, capturing moments that somehow help anchor me to life. I must admit that I didn’t serious about my photography until I discovered the Street genre in 2016, I didn’t start to feel the significance until I joined the editorial team of Progressive-Street Photography in 2019. I love to capture moments, moods and memories. Both story and keepsake. They are not simple images but slices of life; both mine and protagonists’ within my shots.

Website: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers#/keef-charles/ Books: Brief Encounter, Somewhere between memories and dreams

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My name is John Gill and I was born, and still live, in Yorkshire, UK. The vast majority of my photographs are taken in the local area, all are taken candidly on the streets or in cafes. I just try and capture real life and ordinary people. Together with my wife, Bridget, we started a project called 'After the Coal Dust' documenting life in the former industrial areas of the North of England. The project is ongoing and we have been fortunate to have had several exhibitions both in the UK and overseas.

Website: https://www.johngill.photography/ book: “AFTER THE COAL DUST”

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Trevor Gwin, I am a 59-year-old photographer. I grew up in the south of England in Essex and Cornwall but moved north to the mill town of Burnley in 1980. I trained as a mental health nurse shortly after and still work with people with dementia. I have always had a parallel life as an artist and in the 90s I gained a degree in fine art. I was initially a painter and exhibited paintings in Manchester, Liverpool and elsewhere in the north, I was also shortlisted for the prestigious New Contemporaries exhibition in 1998. I started out using photography as research for my paintings but it has gradually become my creative focus. I have always photographed people in the street even before I knew what 'street photography' was. I feel my work is influenced by painters like Goya and Carravagio as well as Saul Leiter, Vivian Maier and Bill Brandt. I continue to live in Burnley where I now have a wonderful family.

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Gisela Szlatoszlavek “You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.” -Joel Meyerowitz As a photographer Gisela Szlatoszlavek brings her own style of street photography. Gisela a published street photographer released her now sold-out book, That Golden Mile (2021) and has featured in Amateur Photographer Magazine (2021). Gisela also forms part of the Instagram collective f/8documentary, focusing on documentary photography from the British Isles. Gisela a Self-taught photographer from Greater Manchester, can be found most weekends in the seaside town of Blackpool. Gisela’s personal statement reads… “ I focus on working-class life, I am a part of that life and express that realness in my images.”

Instagram – Book: That Golden Mile

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David Goold is a full-time geologist and a lunchtime photographer with an interest in many photographic genres. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he grew up in the beautiful Stirlingshire countryside where city life and living remained an idle curiosity until a freelance career took him on a weekly 900-mile round trip commute to London. The result has been the development of a passion for recording the evidence of human life on the city streets. David began his photographic journey at a young age with a Boots Comet 100 Instamatic-like camera and quickly decided to pursue the field as a complete amateur. Today he wanders the pavements and hillsides with a range of compact digital and medium format film cameras making impromptu images with humour and satire.

Website: https://www.davidgoold.com/ Books: Everything is Fine, And Now, What?

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Andre Bogaert I'm a people photographer from London. I'm from the "it's not what you point, it's what you point it at that counts" school of thought so what kit I use is not really too important. Most of my photography is digital but I like to give the photos a "film" look, a Tri X high contrast effect. It looks right to me. My favourite Henri Cartier Bresson quote "Sharpness is such a bourgeois concept"

Website: https://www.bogaert.co.uk/ – EBook: Midnight Diner

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Stephen Leslie is a writer and photographer from London working exclusively on film. His photographs have been featured in the Guardian, Eyeshot magazine and in numerous other publications and websites. In 2018 his book Sparks was published by Penguin / Unbound, it is a combination of street photography and fictional stories inspired by the images. He is currently writing the sequel.

Website: www.stephenleslie.co.uk – Book: Sparks: Adventures in Street Photography

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Anna Lohmann was born and raised in the 1980s in Germany, where she studied media & communications and politics. She financed her studies by working as a barista and writing articles for newspapers. She also worked half a year as a journalist in Spain. After having achieved the University degree Anna was eventually trained as a TV journalist at the German public broadcast NDR/ARD. Following this, she worked as a live reporter, author and filmmaker. In 2020 she moved to London/UK where she discovered her passion for street photography and became a member of the Royal Photographic Society. Anna was awarded third place in the Italian Street Photo Festival 2021 and was among the selected photographers at the Urban Photo Awards 2021. Shots of hers have been exhibited in England and Italy.

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Dmitry Stepanenko Born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1987, Dmitry started doing street photography after moving to the UK in 2010 and it quickly became his primary interest. In 2013 he became one of the founding members of an international street photography collective called The Street Collective. Dmitry's first personal exhibition was held at the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa, Ukraine in 2017, followed by a personal exhibition at Stour Space in London. Apart from that, Dmitry took part in a number of group exhibitions across the world and was published in various photographic magazines. In 2017 his first book "Heavy Colour" was published in the UK. Dmitry is a co-founder and Creative Director at the London Street Photography Festival.

Website: http://www.dmitrystepanenko.com/ – Book: HEAVY COLOUR

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Gareth Bragdon I was born in Nashua, New Hampshire but spent my entire childhood and most of my teens on American Military bases in Germany. It was not America nor was it Germany but rather some weird in-between. When we finally moved back to the states it was a bit of a culture shock. The concrete suburbia and Bush-era politics were off-putting and eventually lead to my brother and me moving to Scotland with the intent of moving to mainland Europe. The two of us ended up settling in Edinburgh and have been unable to make it to the intended goal due to unforeseen adversities such as a chronic illness. For my brother and me, photography was born out of a mixture of minimum wage poverty and cabin fever boredom. There was always that internal need for a creativity hole that needed to be filled. We were exposed to the concept of street photography via documentary and photography books. It was the random nature of it and that it could be done on a budget of fuck all besides getting a hold of a camera and that it was right out your door that made it so compelling.

Instagram – Book: »Off-Beat«

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For over 35 years, the American/British photographer Richard Bram has been walking the streets of the world in search of the special moments of everyday life. He has worked on large public events and private intimate moments, always looking for that significant gesture to animate his photographs. His approach is straight: He doesn't set up the photos or alter the scene; the photograph is either there or it is not. Born in Philadelphia, USA, in 1952, Bram has been a professional photographer since 1984. He was a founding member of in-public, now UP Photographers, the first international street photography collective. In addition to being regularly published in traditional and digital magazines, he regularly writes and lectures on street photography. Today, based in London, he hopes to be on the move again soon in search of new images. Three books of his work have been published, "Richard Bram: Street Photography" (2006), “Richard Bram: NEW YORK” (2016) and “Short Stories” (2020). In 2020, Bram received the honour of a major retrospective exhibition at the Mannheimer Kunstverein of Mannheim, Germany. His work has been seen in over forty solo and group exhibitions around the world and is part of major museum collections in America and Europe. He now makes his home on the banks of the River Thames in east London where he observes the water, light and air of that great river.

Website: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Richard_Bram – Books – Short Stories

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Anne Worthington is a writer and photographer based in the north of England. She has worked all over the UK as a documentary photographer, working closely with people over extended periods of time. Her novel, The Unheard, will be published by Confingo Press in 2022. She was awarded the Michael Schmidt Prize in 2018. The 'After the Coal Dust' book was released in 2020.

https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/anne-worthington-east-manchester-2000s-british-culture-archive/

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Cover by Ella Waldman / 140 pages

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An issue on Cuba is a difficult issue. We looked for Cuban photographers but only one accepted our invitation, Leysis Quesada. We did, however, find a photographer, Volker Figueredo Véliz, who married a Cuban wife, lived in Cuba keeps going back and has recently written a book. Also, we have a Cuban photographer who only became a photographer after leaving his Island, Ruber Osoria. Then there’s a photojournalist, Michael Chinnici, who has just published a book in which he expresses his thoughts on the island.

As for the others, these are photographers who loved Cuba and who show us how they lived it: a bubble, a dream, a different reality ...

The Cuba of our imagination is portrayed in its daily reality.

Thanks to Michael Kennedy for his editorial work on this issue

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Photographers of Progressive Street

Corinne Spector: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers#/corinne-spector/

Dimitri Mellos: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers#/dimitri-mellos/

Frans Kemper: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers#/frans-kemper/

Jay Tanen: https://www.progressive-street.com/jay-tanen

Michael kennedy: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers/#/michael-kennedy/

Ruber Osoria: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers#/ruber-osoria/

Shimi Cohen: https://www.progressive-street.com/photographers#/shimi-cohen/

Leysis Quesada Vera

Leysis Quesada Vera was born on April 28, 1973 in Cienfuegos, Cuba. Her family settled in Amarillas, in the province of Matanzas, a place she would later explore in her earliest photographic work. Originally, Quesada Vera studied English and worked as a professor for three years in a junior high school in Havana. When the Maine Photographic Workshop came to Havana in 1999, she would visit the Fototeca accompanied by her cousin Lazaro Miranda, a well-known photographer, who then helped her land an assistant position with the Maine staff. It was during this time that Quesada Vera met Jon Golden, a photographer in one of the workshops who gave her a Nikon FM2 camera. It was with this camera that Quesada Vera made her most important first photographs and it was the only camera she used until she began taking digital pictures. By 2001, she had worked alongside photographers David Alan Harvey and Stacey Boge, both of whom she considers important early mentors. According to Quesada Vera, it was not until January 2000 that she became a “serious” photographer. Inspired by her cousin Lazaro’s work with interiors, she studied the works of master photographers and was particularly drawn to the work of photographers Sebastian Salgado and Sally Mann. “I have always been drawn to the life of the ‘campesinos’ [people from the countryside] in Cuba,” she says. “Much of my work is inspired by their way of life: how they live inside their own homes and how they go about their daily lives.” By 2003, Quesada Vera’s work turned inward with the birth of her daughter Avril, whom she now considers to be the most important motivation for her pictures. It is around this time when her work began to center on her own family, friends, and the daily lives of those closest to her in her native Cuba.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/cuba-during-the-pandemic-photo-essay

https://www.magnumfoundation.org/news/cuba-during-the-pandemic

Volker Figueredo Vèliz

Volker was born Volker Büffel in 1953. He worked for nearly forty years for a large computer manufacturer and having accepted an offer of early retirement he headed for Cuba where he met the woman who is now his wife. As a photographer, Figueredo has built up a worldwide reputation with his images on Cuba. He lived for a number of years in Havana where he found the in- spiration for his own personal photography and led photo workshops for people from all over the world. He uses his Leica to capture everything that is typically Cuban but that is seldom seen by holidaymakers or other visitors to the island. His family connections have enabled him to gain his subjects’ trust and have given him access to the everyday world of local customs and traditions as well as the joys and worries that otherwise remain hidden behind the scenes of the tourist-friendly Cuba that the rest of the world gets to see. His »Cuba Inside« collection has been shown in multiple galleries across Germany. In 2018 Figueredo relocated to Germany with his wife Somaida and their daughter Yoana but he still visits Cuba as often as he can.

"LOS CUBANOS - Searching for Cuba's Soul" is probably the first book that honestly and without false pathos presents the Cuba of the Cubans. Against the background of current events, it can also be considered a document of contemporary history, because it shows a Cuba as it has never been seen before. The introduction to this impressive work was written by New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony DePalma, author of the book "The Cubans - ordinary lives in extraordinary times“.

Michael Chinnici

Michael Chinnici is a New York-based photographer, author, creative director, and designer. He specializes in documentary photography, including visual storytelling, environmental portraits, and people. He has travelled the world working in all realms of photography: people, streets, landscapes, motorsports, aerial, and fashion. He enjoys the challenges that various photographic disciplines present. He was introduced to photography by his father at the age of eleven. He began his lifelong love affair with photography using his dad’s WW II–era Argus C3 and a basement darkroom. Michael is the Founder and CEO of Photo Workshop Adventures, a premier photography workshop and tour company offering photo-centric cultural adventures in over 150 destinations in over 50 countries. Michael personally leads the group and private photo tours and cultural adventures to many countries, including Cuba. He loves sharing his photography experiences and is a frequent speaker at events where he discusses his “Evoking Emotion” approach to photography. Michael spent the first 25 years of his career in marketing and design, heading up his own New York City advertising agency, Chinnici Direct, as the CEO and Executive Creative Director. In 1995 he co-founded New York’s first digital photography studio, Icon Digital. Using Hasselblad medium format cameras and Leaf Digital Backs, Icon was one of the first studios to perfect digital photography and RGB to CYMK conversions.

“As a documentary travel photographer, I enjoy the best of both worlds. I love documenting and learning about different cultures, all while travelling the globe. I am in search of authenticity, beauty, and emotion. I try to meld all three of these to create images that truly “Evoke Emotion.” I capture authenticity by blending into the environment and assimilating with those around me making others feel comfortable in my presence. I get people around me to let their guard down and invite me into their space, without them even knowing it. It’s sort of like breaking the ice on a first date, except this date might only last a few seconds or minutes, or however long it takes to get that great shot. I look for beauty. Beauty is everywhere. I use light to enhance beauty. The more beautiful the light, the better. Creating images that Evoke Emotion is always my goal. There is no recipe, no secret formula. Once I’ve managed to find authenticity and beauty, I can create emotion. “

Vanishing Cuba is Michael’s first published book. The book includes a stunning collection of over 300 photographs and stories from Michael’s 24 trips to Cuba. Vanishing Cuba is about capturing the “Soul of Cuba.” Michael’s love affair with Cuba and the Cuban people comes through in this compelling and beautifully produced book, handcrafted in Italy. The collection depicts the changes Cuba faces as it emerges from more than 60 years of isolation and decay. Michael’s trips to Cuba have yielded tens of thousands of photographs, inspired thought-provoking and emotional stories, and created lifelong friendships.

Vanishing Cuba is available in a “Silver Edition,” “Deluxe Edition,” and the collector series “Reserve Edition”—limited to just 300 copies. "To purchase the book, go to: https://redoctopuspublishing.com/

Richard Bram

Richard Bram is born in 1952. He is an American street photographer. He is based in London and was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Bram has published two books of candid public photographs: Street Photography (2006), a compact collection of black and white photographs taken around the world from 1988 to 2005; and New York (2016), "like a greatest-hits album" of work made between 2005 and 2015 whilst living in New York City. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Museum of London.

The last book: https://www.mannheimer-kunstverein.de/richard-bram

Gabi Ben Avraham

My name is Gabi (Gavriel) Ben-Avraham. I am 59 years old, and married with three children. I work in a software company and live in a quiet neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, the city which I grew up in, have never left and is a part of me and my hobby - photography. I enjoy cinema and music, and during the 1980s photographed using film cameras. I then did not touch a camera for 20 years until I received a digital camera as a gift for my birthday from my wife a few years ago. The rest is history….
Process Description: “The Street is not a Studio”.
Sometimes I stand and wait for things to converge – a cyclist, a dancer, a child – moving along. They are not aware that they are moving towards a certain object, but I am. Street Photography is my favourite way of looking at the world. My camera has become an integral part of me and I cannot imagine myself without it. Everywhere I go I take it with me thinking ‘maybe today will be my lucky day and I will take the photo of my life’. Via the camera lens, I am constantly looking around me, searching for that ‘decisive’ moment that will never return, unless I catch it. When pushing the button, I try to make some sense, restore order to the chaotic scheme of things in the composition. The components 'speak' with each other in a special dialogue, either by colour, shape, or light. Capturing the elusive, special moment after which things will never be the same and making it eternal – that is my goal. Forgotten, transparent people in urban surroundings are being granted their moment of grace. The shadows, fragile outlines, reflections within daily lives that are not noticed in the busy and thick urban landscape and sometimes are even crushed by it – these are precious to me. Those expressions, compositions – flickering like dim lights on the horizon – I treasure these before they are lost in time. I enjoy looking at other photographers’ works and am inspired by websites such as IN-public and Magnum.

Orna Naor

Orna Naor is a street and documentary photographer living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. She began focusing on photography in 2013, and her lens was immediately drawn to the lively scenes of urban life in the streets. She sees it as a stage, complete with actors, lighting, and props, all of which lend to a unique narrative and story line. The goal of her work is to convey the idea that people have far more in common than their differences. In bringing awareness to those commonalities, she hopes to bring people together to help regain our common humanity. Her work has been exhibited all over the world , Miami Street Festival, San Francisco photography Festival, Photo Israel photography festival, Local Testimony Exhibition, Street sans frontiers exhibition in Paris, All roads lead to Rome exhibition in Rome, women street photography exhibition in NYC, London Street Festival and more.

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Donna Kross: My name is Donna Kross and I'm located in Kings Park, Long Island. https://www.donnakross.com/

Ella Waldman: a few years ago I discovered a camera and fell in love. The camera became a kind of “third arm” to me and the challenge of translating my experience into frame became a new language. I started travelling around the world, enjoying meeting people from different cultures and trying to capture special and significant moments. Now photography for me is a way of life.
What I love the most is taking photos in the most faraway places in the world. I get excited every time plane touches the ground. My heart rate increases and I look forward to the unknown. Photography has turned me into a better person. My perception of life has changed. The lens has sharpened my ability to see details and to be more sensitive to the people around me.

Paolo Zucchini, my passion for photography was born as a kid, out of a need to immortalize friends and joyful holiday situations, but yes almost immediately evolves into a vocation for the set portrait and later for the nude portrait, opening up the horizon of suggestions visuals only apparently similar but, in reality, always different, as only the human subject can give. I worked with slides, eventually printed in Cibachrome, for as regards colour and in BN, developing and printing, for years, personally. Later, after a break, I resumed with digital, now well widespread, finding in it a new stimulus and a renewed curiosity. Now my interest has focused a lot on the photo Street and, in part, on the travel report. I consider the street as the essence of photography as I live it personally: everyone around me can become a protagonist e travelling there is no shortage of particular and interesting situations.

Uri Zilberman, I am a 71-year-old dentist, living in Tel Aviv. Has been photographing for over 10 years. For the first five years, I shot with a digital camera and only in auto mode. About four years ago, I started studying photography, mainly documentary photography, and street photography with Eli Atias, a professional photographer who is also a photography teacher. I go out with Atias to photography workshops in Israel and occasionally to photo tours around the world. At the beginning of my career in photography, I liked to shoot from a distance, like seeing the object from the side without interacting with the subject, today I shoot in close proximity to what is happening around me. I like more the interaction with the subject being photographed.

Vered Sadot: I was born 54 years ago, I grew up in Jerusalem. Today, I live in Jerusalem after many years living in Binyamina, a small settlement near Haifa. As for street photography, it is not an independent genre but a documentary branch that must express some photographic narrative or narrative in general, over a series of photographs, otherwise it has no existence right. A story in one picture is also a part of a much broader narrative that gives photography a lasting meaning: cultural. Of what survives beyond the solitary photograph, and also to survive the flux and quantities of photographs created in the world in the present age. Therefore, each episode in the series, each photograph, can tell a single story and must be part of a much wider one. ”Street photography” is a style and not an “activity”. That’s why photography in this style using the “Style” tools is available everywhere, including in a human factor-free environment; to me, street photography is not limited to a large urban environment or any, though it is easier to produce interesting compositions in the urban environment where the happenings are “cluttered.”

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Cover: Theodoros Topalis / 36 pages

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3°: Alberto M. Melis Ateneo Sta Ines Batsceba Hardy Bijon Datta Bogo Pečnikar Cameron Scott Debarun Biswas Dipanjan Chakraborty Don Scott Dzung Viet Le Emir Sevim Lil Steinberg Gabi Ben Avraham Hélène Cook Jay Tanen Laurent Renaux Najed Civokul Neville Fan Niklas Lindskog Orna Naor Pablo Abreu Pacho Coulchinsky Petros Kotzabasis Raffaele Maglione Richard Keshen Swarup Chakraborty

4: Cassian Edwards David Williams Delfim Correlo Dov Oron Fabio Balestra Jean Fraipont João Coelho Lou Escandell Mateo Candia Mike Bland Nadia Eeckhout Paul Raymond Paule Pst Photoworks Puspita Chowdhury Robert Cressy Sanjib Ghosh Sumit Basu Tülin Ertürk

and: Adi Asher Anat Shushan Anthez Anthez Arin Dutta Bernardo Tome Barbero Charles Lafrance Corinne Spector Deb Debasis Das Fran Balseiro Gerri McLaughlin Jacques Pharand Joanne van Dalen Juan Londoño Lior Faust Lola Minister Lorenzo Ponzi Metin Yener Michael C. Geiss Mikael Carlsson Oliver Barnjak Patty De Juneas Rene Geensen Rg Piñero Roberto Bartolini Roberto Di Patrizi Simone Christina Sander Simone Mantia Tamar Ganor Zandman Tanit Jarusan Trevor Gwin Ubo Pakes William Henry Reodica