The Street Photography Awards

The International Street Photography Award is looking for the world’s best street photographer as part of the first annual London Street Photography Festival in 2011. It is open to all photographers, anywhere in the world. The winner will receive £1,000 plus an all-expenses paid trip to the festival’s opening night in London – a fantastic opportunity for any photographer to take advantage of the festival’s activities, network and to promote their work. Total first prize value £2,750.

Application deadline: 31 March 2011

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Geometry of life by Umberto Verdoliva

Umberto Verdoliva was born in Castellammare di Stabia, Naples in 1961. Now residing in Treviso, Italy. Photography is not his profession but an essential part of him. As Umberto says he could not live without it. The street is his stage. He watch the show trying to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary in his way of seeing. The light, shadows, geometry, the moment are the tools He use. Take a look on great street photos from Italy. (more…)

Vivian Maier

The story of Vivian Maier and her recently discovered work has been circulating for a while now ever since photographer John Maloof posted about his discovery. Vivian Maier, a French-born photographer who died in April 2009 in Chicago, where she had lived for 50 years. A Chicago photographer, John Maloof, recently purchased around 40,000 of her negatives from a small auction house that was selling all her possessions, including furniture. He is gradually going through the negs, which date from the 1950s to 1970s and posting selected pictures on a blog. She seems to have no living family, and an obituary that appeared in a Chicago paper was probably placed by people she worked for as a nanny. Maloof was contacted by a researcher who said that she was a Jewish refugee from wartime France, was a loner and poor. (more…)

Spare by Alexander Glyadyelov

The children in Aleksandr Glyadyelov’s pictures do not live normal lives. The humiliating poverty experienced by the majority of Ukrainians has pushed these kids out of their homes and onto the streets where they spend their days searching for a crust of bread, and their nights looking for a place to sleep. Some prefer the violence of the streets to homes filled with alcohol and drugs. Basements, begging, thefts, alcohol, violence, drugs, cruel treatment – these are inevitable parts of the daily struggle. When Alexander Glyadyelov looks into a childs eyes and receive his or her gaze in response, He is not looking at a statistic, but at a child. Photographs can reveal pain, which He search for, even while he wish it did not exist. Alexander Glyadyelov photographed the children over the next month until, without warning, they changed sleeping quarters, and he lost them. He met them again two years later, only to lose them after three days. Some of these images are spontaneous; others are the result of endless research. The rest are the product of long-lasting, trusting relationships. (more…)