In this section I would like to give other street photographers around the world the opportunity to present themselves.

It is particularly important for me that the reader learns why we do what we do.

So if you feel addressed, write a few lines about yourself and send them with 2-3 pictures to me.

Note: Each photographer is responsible for the correctness of his submissions (text, images, links).

I am an Israeli-born street photographer presently living in Tel Aviv.

After flirting with an initial fascination with photography and film cameras in the 1980's,

I went on to pursue a career as an IT manager and put my love for the still image aside.

Fortunately, my interest never disappeared: while the passion lay dormant for decades, all it took was the gift of a camera from my wife to awaken my inclination towards photography again. The Street is not a Studio. Sometimes I stand and wait for things to converge – a cyclist, a dancer, a child – moving along. Street Photography/Documentary is my favorite 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, tell the story behind the scene and frame a surrealistic moment. The components 'speak' with each other in a special dialogue, either by color (I prefer B&W, I add color only when it is meaningful), 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 and compositions are to be treasured before they are lost in time.

Reality is a sequence of never-ending scenes. The camera is an instrument to freeze the moment, isolate it and take it out of context. Alternative reality is the moment existing in the mind of its creator. At a single click, the photographer tries to fill the insignificance around him with significance. The components "speak" with each other in a unique dialogue made of composition, color, light, shadow and shape.

The photographer creates a private and intimate hallucination and shares it with  the viewer. The moment made eternal by the act of shooting is 'the decisive moment', a junction of reality and fiction, real and surreal. The photographer links the possible with the impossible and even though the moment fades, it is burnt in the memory of the viewer.
I shoot independently for a few years and teach in Street Photography workshops.
I am a member of "Thestreetcollective", http://www.thestreetcollective.com/ which was founded in 2013, and have since been documenting the occurrences of the streets from a personal perspective. The Collective’s aim is not only to encourage street photography in general, but to offer up and coming street photographers
the opportunity to share projects with a larger audience.

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Before being a photographer, I was a street walker. I've been walking for years on the streets of Lille where I'm from. I was writing on the walls by night and wandering by day. Once I borrowed a point-and-shoot film camera from my girlfriend. I have never stopped photographing since then.

My first works were about walls and graffiti-art. I soon managed to have some publications and my first exhibition. But I made a terrific discovery thanks to books and public libraries : people and everyday life and passers-by on the streets may be photo subjects ! I had to struggle my shyness and to meet strangers.

Nowadays I'm still working with film cameras and following a motto a graffiti-artist friend of mine told me : "make it simple and efficient".
I truly believe it's just about being ready and showing the world and its inhabitants.

As I don't want to crop, a lot of the films I made are thrown away. Some others are waiting in big films files. I'm still wandering and walking around France and Belgium and Corsica. I'm living in a great country called Wanderland.

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Street photography is demanding very short reaction time. A scene can appear and disappear within seconds. Therefore it’s very important to configure the camera accordingly. Standby mode is switched off. The camera is always on and ready to shoot. Auto ISO is on and - depending on what kind of picture I want to take - I use either shutter or aperture priority. I always work with the AF-point centered, position it over the subject, lock focus and recompose. To me, this is the quickest and most reliable focusing technique.

I take 90% of my pictures with the 17mm (equiv. 34mm) lens.
I have a couple of patterns that I use for taking pictures and switch from one to the other depending on what’s going on or where I am. I often start looking for people who attract my attention. If I don’t find any, I’m looking for interesting backgrounds and wait for someone completing the scene. Or I use a photographic style element such as panning, blurring or backlight. Or I consciously change the perspective. I found switching from pattern to pattern very useful for stimulating creativity.

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My name is Allan Mestel. I am a commercial and portrait photographer living and working in southwest Florida. Outside of my business, my passion is street photography. I rarely leave the house without my camera.

Why street photography
Street Photography is a great exercise in creativity and spontaneity.
It challenges my ability to see the world, human interaction, correlations, light and geometry in new ways. I’d like to think of street photography as a means to remember. To remember where we are and what we (want to) see in life.
What do you think makes a good street photo?
I think a good street photograph should always show something personal and something objective in the same time. A street scene in itself can be interesting but I find it more interesting to see how the photographer chose to show the scene.
We are not composers, we are interpreters. We define the arrangement of things as we see them. And that is really interesting to me to see.

Which equipment do you use?
My main camera at the moment is the Fujifilm X100F. I also use the Ricoh GR and a 5D Mark II with a 35mm prime lens.
What has street photography taught you?
I am constantly learning new things every day so I can only talk about what I learned so far. Street Photography taught me to be more disciplined and take it easy in the same time. It’s easy to feel frustrated when you did not get any good shots for a while. We are here for the long run.

It takes time and patience. Keep shooting and eventually it will pay off in the end.

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What do you think makes a good street photo?:
Certainly, it is the ability to make yourself invisible as well as to recognise intuitively that a situation is a good street photo. I think the equipment is not the decisive factor.

Which equipment do you use?:
Nikon D750 and Fuji XT20, various lenses
What has street photography taught you?:
Regard and respect for all different kinds of people and show empathy, which also means now and then do without taking a picture. Looking back on 5 years of street photography I have learned constantly new things, it is enriching and gives the chance to obtain new point of views and different perspectives.

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After all, great photographers like Lewis Hine, Eugene Atget, and Henri Cartier - Bresson have all been motivated to photograph for   different reasons.
Their photographs also look quite  distinct from each other, so I don’t subscribe to any fixed criteria for what constitutes a “good” picture.

Over the years, I’ve used a variety of cameras, but  right  now I’m mostly using Leicas with either a 28 or 35mm lens.  I also use a Ricoh GR. It’s a good little camera,

and it’s so small that I can carry it in my pocket.

Walker Evans said that he went into the street for the education of his eye.

I’ve always like that notion. and I think  it’s good enough for me too.

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What I perceived in that new urban landscape and became the ghost I kept freezing everywhere and in everyone’s face with my shots was an intense feeling of loneliness. As a photographer, I am already used to entering the world of loneliness because I must be able to become invisible. So I found myself breathing in my own loneliness and the solitude of those around me.

This society is turning us into monads... and Street photographers are those who daily tell us about the loneliness of mankind through their shots.

And that’s why words are superfluous in this realm. Only by looking at photographs we can understand this.

What makes a good street photo? It's hard, I think a good street photograph should be able to show you something you couldn't see... and I also talk about feelings.
The modern man never looks at the sky... seems to be walking with blinkers...

My equipment: I use what happens to me, mostly a Nikon D7000 with a Nikkor 35/105. For me, photography is not a question of technique but of magic...

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My name is Thibaut Goarant, and my country is Japan although I come from France.

I came really came to street photography by accident. At that time I bought a camera, and I was seeing it was good for street photography.
I was then curious to see what it was so I informed myself and I really enjoyed it so I started to take pictures; not necesseraly street photo but it came quiet quickly.

The question that is really difficult to answer, what makes a good street photo. One should defines what is Street photo, the ones that have a candid little twist included in the picture are likely to be a good street photography but of course, composition, heart and soul should be the basic for a street photo to I should a good photo.

I use as equipment, a Ricoh GRII, but also as medium format a Pentax 67 and for 35mm format a Pentax K1000 for film photography. Street photography has teached me to never give-up, to be more resilient, as the shot that makes the difference can be the last one you take in your session of photographying.
But the texts that really defines me about street photography photography and photography in general is on my blog on my website and it is called

« Why I take pictures » , please have a look if you have some times.

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My Name is Kevin Icabales from the Philippines.

Street photography really reflects my own life. As a street photographer, every story that I see has another stories behind.

I believe that a good street photo should have a sense of mystery where it can touch your feelings. I use my Fujifilm XT20 and my smartphone Huawei Nova 2i.

One thing that Street Photography taught me is having an integrity. In this genre, you really need to show the truth, it cannot be staged. Another beauty of Street Photography is you will learn how to really appreciate the small things that leads you to see the bigger picture clearly.

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Hi, I am Hans Stellingwerf alias Straatmoment, which means "moment in the street".
Actually I'm photographing everything ( find and follow me on facebook),

but streetphotography is the biggest pleasure for me to do nowadays !

My "working-area" is at Dam Square and surroundings in Amsterdam where I'm hunting for the nice people to get a streetphoto or portrait.
For me, a good streetphoto is one where the person is the main-object so I mostly try to get him or her closer. Sometimes a tiny person in a totality can be nice or a detailed photo works well too.

I always use a songtitle for a photo, music is my other passion:-))
When I see a photo, it has to catch me regardless of how it's made. Equipment, techniques and rules are not important for me, it's the photographer behind
the camera !

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This is true especially with Street photography, where is more important "to catch the moment" in lieu of technically perfect shots. I shot mainly black and white because I think that monochromatic is able to better represent the moods. I always loved to capture people, to fix an instant, a place, a mood, a feeling or an emotion to share with others. In my Street photography I never pose people,
I prefer to capture the spontaneity of expressions and gestures that characterize a slice of real life. I love traveling and getting to know new cultures;
Street photography is the perfect tool to take pictures that tell a story and allows me to bring home a small part of the world.

Travels teach me to appreciate the diversity of peoples, Street Photography helps me to understand these wonderful words of Helen Keller, a deaf-blind american writer: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."

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I am Birgit Zober from Germany.
I'm a streetphotographer by passion. Photography is in my life since I'm a teenager and was always the most important part of my life concerning  creativity.
People  and street photography  was  the latest part of  my  evolution, it  gives me  the highest level of satisfaction taking this sujet and evolved to a passion.

Probably  I’m  not  a typical „street-tog“ because my photography take place  more  often in small villages or rural countrysides  than in metropoles.
I want to work with emotions  rather  than with geometry, more  with the silent unspectacular  situations  than with those  „OH“  and  „AH“ shots  gaining  thousands of likes. All  these FB  and Instagram groups  are  not  meaningful for me. What counts is the processes of TAKING and CREATING these pictures.  Just to be  somewhere in-between and part of the today history!

Technical aspects  of  cameras  are  not  that important  for  me because  they are  just working tools. At  the moment  I have a FujiFilm XT 1 with mainly a 35 mm f 1.4 lense and a Ricoh GR  with  me. Sometimes  also an  analogue Voigtländer  Bessa R is in use.  For picture  editing I use  Lightroom from Adobe  and Nik-SW.

With my photography I want to transfer the daily life moments into picture-poetry in an aesthethical and creative mood. My pictures are NOT like a crime thriller pushing the adrenaline through your body. They are unspectacular and gentle, more like a limerick, which often perform a magic little smile upon your face if the spectator will pause for a small moment to let the meaning sink into his mind and listen to the pacifying attitude.

More  and  more my  pictures  went into series with a common  underlying theme  like  „airport-series, „get a move on“ or „ocean love“.
Spezial thanks refer to Carsten Osterwald for showing my work at his street guys project!

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When arriving as a young student from Europe in NYC for the first time almost fifty years ago the city of New York in the early 70s will be virtually unrecognizable to the people who live here now and who never experienced that time.

I feel nostalgic for those days before gentrification changed everything.

The New York I knew then was exciting, though dirty, hard-hitting and unsentimental unlike any other city. I prefer film photography and am glad to see it making a comeback. My choice of film is Tri-X400 using a Leica M-2 with a Summilux

35/f1.4 pre-asph lens.

I develop the film myself and make silver gelatin prints on fiber base paper of my best photos. In this digital age craftsmanship and skill are superfluous.

The only thing that counts is individuality and genuineness.
Basically it takes a long time and commitment to become a good photographer;

it doesn’t happen overnight.
The equipment used for the photographs is a Leica M2 rangefinder camera with a Leica Summilux 35/f1.4 pre asph lens.

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I am Sebastian Jacobitz, Street Photographer from Berlin and member of the collective Berlin1020.
In the past, I traveled through Southeast Asia and also lived in a small village in the Indonesian Jungle for a few weeks where I was able to capture the local life.

Why Street Photography
Whether it is photography or other forms of media, I am mostly interested in real stories and not some fiction.  Therefore Street Photography is where I can enjoy Photography the most.  I am able to wander the same streets as anybody else, but through my camera, I am able to capture stories that are hidden from most.
Through Street Photography I can tell a different story of my city and show the world from my perspective.

What Makes a good Street Photograph
A good Street Photograph should capture my interest for more than a few seconds. That is only possible if there is a story that is intriguing and has a certain depth.

Of course, there are also Street Photographs that simply look good and are well composed. But an outstanding picture should have it all.
Composition, story and emotion, these are the ingredients for a good Street Photograph in my opinion.

Which Equipment do I Use
For my Street Photography, I rely on two cameras. The Ricoh GR and the FujiX100F are all that I need. They are compact, have a fixed lens and work like a charm for me. I used them in heavy rain, smoke or other harsh conditions and haven't run into a problem yet. Additionally, I sometimes use a flash, either on or off-camera.

What has Street Photography taught me
Throughout the years, Street Photography has taught me a lot of life lessons.
I think one of the most important ones is that You have to leave Your comfort zone to reach Your goals. Street Photography requires You to do things, that might be not "normal" for most of society.
For a good Street Photograph, You have to leave the mindset of always doing what others expect from You. If You want to get that picture, You have to get in there and get it Yourself. Street Photography has also taught me a lot about patience and work ethics. We all know how brutal Street Photography can be.
One day You feel great and get a few decent pictures right away. Then there are also days where You put in a lot of effort for the whole day, without any good results. This is just the nature of Street Photography and shouldn't frustrate anyone too much. In the long run, if You put in an effort, the results will follow.

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Why street photography?

Because shooting photos on the street takes me to new places or to see familiar places in a new light, introduces me to fascinating people and their life stories,

and provides a challenging opportunity to quickly adjust my camera
to decisive moments and various light settings.

What do you think makes a good street photo? 
A good street photo will grab and keep your attention, is memorable,

causes you to become curious and to ask yourself questions about the storyline,
and elicits an emotional response.

Which equipment do you use? 
Sony a6500 with a 35mm equivalent prime lens and 24mm-105mm

equivalent telephoto lens.

What has street photography taught you? 
Street photography has taught me about the importance of context in order to more effectively illustrate the storyline or message, to anticipate and find the decisive or interesting moments that are normally invisible to most people, and how to quickly and effectively use my camera for a variety of situations.

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WHY STREET PHOTOGRAPHY?

To get to know myself through the exploration of the world around me.

WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES A GOOD STREET PHOTO?

When you can make converge in a frame content and form. Important thing to clarify in these bloody years: street photography is unstated and unposed.

WHICH EQUIPMENT DO YOU USE?

Digital: Fujifilm X100S, Fujifilm X-E2 with 18mm (equivalent 28mm) and Leica X2. But I am a Fujifilm ambassador so sometimes I use other cameras. Film: Olympus Stylus Epic, Nikon AF 35.