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    • Richard Baker
    • Pau Buscato
    • Natan Dvir
    • Nick Hannes
    • Rob Hogenbirk
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    • Jill Maguire
    • Aniruddha Guha Sarkar
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  • THE HOME OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

    Founded 2000

  • iN-PUBLiC was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers. Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities, we are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to the group because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment.

    iN-PUBLiC was relaunched in 2020 with a renewed commitment to present the best photography from the public realm that faithfully records everyday life without staging or manipulation.

  • iN-PUBLiC are

    • Richard Baker
    • Pau Buscato
    • Natan Dvir
    • Nick Hannes
    • Rob Hogenbirk
    • Nils Jorgensen
    • Lesya Kim
    • Jill Maguire
    • Aniruddha Guha Sarkar
    • StreetMax21
    • Nick Turpin
  • in_public_streets

    Photo by Oksana Novoselskaya. The very best street Photo by Oksana Novoselskaya. The very best street photography today, global in breadth, both contemporary and historical, by established and emerging photographers.  Follow these photographers on iN-PUBLiC's Flickr Group (link in bio) for fresh and diverse street photography scenes from throughout the world today. Curated by Nils Jorgensen from iN-PUBLiC.com #canpubphoto #streetphotography #noai
    As an addition to his Beyond the Frame series, @th As an addition to his Beyond the Frame series, @th__street @filltheframefilm has released a video charting the work of @streetmax21 in the City of London over the last ten years. In that time, Streetmax21 has used the City as a sounding board to explore his unique approach to street photography.

https://youtu.be/ZcdosFexaaw

#streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets #squaremile #london 
@streetmax21
    An image selected by @nilsjorgensen_ for the iN-PU An image selected by @nilsjorgensen_ for the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool by Suresh Naganathan. Born in Switzerland in 1980, Suresh moved back to India in 2008. "Overwhelmed by the sounds, colors, and overbearing human presence in this new environment after 28 years in calm Switzerland, I picked up the camera in order to make sense of all the chaos surrounding me."
You can see more of his work on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/bek_the_sur/ or visit his website www.sureshn.com #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    “Nearing the end of my year spent pacing the cap “Nearing the end of my year spent pacing the capital's pavements (long legs, lengthy stride), I'm mulling over another 12 months of personal work. 

Specifically, here is a sequence of pictures - a sketch of four taken within thirty seconds in the City of London yesterday, 9th December. 

A couple are in the process of deciding how to make a memento for themselves. They then decide it should be of each other. Me as the photographer of them, the photographed, who photograph the sculpture, then themselves. A shifting choice of how they wish their day to be remembered. 

While the singular pictures I often show are more likely to be isolated in their own time-frame, they may also be one of serial moments where I have persisted, held my nerve, revealing tiny pieces of extra-chronology. 

These micro-stories unfold over seconds or minutes without warning. The hardest bit is being ready for absolutely anything. Interrupt the sequence and, although it exists temporarily in the real world, the entire narrative is lost to the permanency of the photograph. Not that this is ever foremost in my mind at the time. It's more about hanging on in there so by the end frame (once I’ve established what it is), I've held true to the end of the sentence, the visual full stop.”

Richard Baker, London.
    New rare iN-PUBLiC Zine! iNTERSECTiONS launches 🚀 in a small edition of 75 today! Visit in-public.com to get yours.
    An Image by @SubhranKarmakar selected for the iN-P An Image by @SubhranKarmakar selected for the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool by iP member @nilsjorgensen_ . Based in India Subhran says "I keep searching for stories the moment I step out of my house no matter if I am carrying a camera or not". This frame is nicely divided into areas, we have fish, we have a couple and we have a beach view but it also has lovely contrasts of scale, big figures, a giant hand with a ring, cast iron chains and a whole misty peninsula complete with distant moored boat. There is a nice echo between the fish and the couple but the picture doesn't rely on that juxtaposition alone. Add your images to the iN-PUBLiC Flickr group to be featured here and on the site. #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool (go join a An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool (go join and submit your most interesting candid public photographs) curated by the eclectic eye of @nilsjorgensen_ This beautifully lit pastoral scene reminded us of Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the perfect arrangement of semi clad figures all engaged in their own activities whilst part of the group and lit by the warm light of the setting sun appears to be a social paradise. Everyone is relaxed and at ease in the countryside, relaxing in the woods after bathing, an idilic scene. The image is by Boris Vian and you can see more of his work on Flickr. #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    On our front page today, the beautiful London Lock On our front page today, the beautiful London Lockdown pictures of @sarahmlee47 taken over the last year during Sarah’s walks and cycles around the City. The images are quiet, sensitive and contemplative, creating a personal poetic record of this time. #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr group as curate An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr group as curated by our own @nilsjorgensen_ from which we choose a few favourite Street Photographs to feature here. This intense pictures is by George Kuttner who lives in The Bronx, New York. The artificial light instils this shot with the quality of a film still, it looks colour graded for the movies. The moment itself is intimate and personal, we are intruding on a relationship, one that is close and trusting. The picture doesn't feel like a traditional Street Photograph in that it is closely cropped with few elements but it has that element we love, a moment. Follow George on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/georgekuttner/ #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    It is with great pleasure that iN-PUBLiC welcomes It is with great pleasure that iN-PUBLiC welcomes Pau Buscato to the group. Pau is one of the great Street Photography talents to have emerged over the last decade, a natural talent with a very instinctive approach to making street images. His work is full of humorous and surreal moments plucked effortlessly from the public realm. “PHOTOGRAPHY IS BASICALLY A GAME FOR ME, I PLAY STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE CITY, ITS PEOPLE, ITS SIGNS, A SHADOW, A TREE, OR SOME TRASH….ANYTHING CAN HAVE A STARRING ROLE IN THIS GAME” #streetphotography #in_public_streets #canpubphoto #paubuscato @paubuscato
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  • Photographers
    • Richard Baker
    • Pau Buscato
    • Natan Dvir
    • Nick Hannes
    • Rob Hogenbirk
    • Nils Jorgensen
    • Lesya Kim
    • Jill Maguire
    • Aniruddha Guha Sarkar
    • StreetMax21
    • Nick Turpin
  • Submissions
  • Workshops
  • Information
    • About iN-PUBLiC
    • Street Photography
    • Links
  • iP Flickr Pool
  • iN-PUBLiC Exhibitions
    • The Square Mile

What is Street Photography?

Broadly, Street Photography is a documentary form of Photography produced candidly in the public realm without staging or manipulation.

But Street Photography is far more nuanced than this factual description implies, there is a tradition and a heritage that has built up around Street Photography since photographers first started recording life in public places and its development is closely aligned to the development of photography as a medium and to technology in general. For many the phrase itself is problematic, coined by some unknown commentator decades ago it serves us poorly in describing the actual practice of making a photographic record of life in public places that doesn’t just include the street. In 2017 Nick Turpin suggested the phrase Candid Public Photography as a broad inclusive description that more accurately contained the practice.

Candid (Adjective) From the Latin, candidus, pure, impromptu, unposed, unrehearsed.

Public (Adjective) From the Latin, publicus, from populus, the people. Able to be seen or known by everyone, open to general view.

Photograph (Verb) From the Greek, phõtos, light, and graphein, to draw, together meaning ‘drawing with light’.

Rob Hogenbirk

Using the simplest of equipment, Street Photography emphasises the unique vision of the photographer in observing everyday life, each Street Photograph affords us a glimpse into the mind of the photographer, their cleverness, their wit, their sense of order, their cultural and social understandings, their influences and visual sensibilities.

Whilst all acknowledge that a photograph is a new object viewed out of context, most also recognise that there remains a strong connection between a photograph and the scene or happening it shows. Being unstaged and unmanipulated Street Photographs leverage their status as documents to show us evidence of extraordinaryness in real life.

The definition of Street Photography is not fixed however, it is something constantly moving and debated by the current generation of image makers in response to new technologies like the cameraphone or social developments like image sharing platforms such as Instagram. Some argue that there should be no rules whilst others believe that if everything is Street Photography then in fact nothing is.

iN-PUBLiC sees the Street Photographer as an observer not a director who uses the rectangle and the shutter button to make pictures as opposed to a computer. 

Nick Turpin

  • THE HOME OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

    Founded 2000

  • iN-PUBLiC was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers. Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities. We are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to the group because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment.

    iN-PUBLiC was relaunched in 2020 with a renewed commitment to present the best photography from the public realm that faithfully records everyday life without staging or manipulation.

  • in-public are

    • Richard Baker
    • Pau Buscato
    • Natan Dvir
    • Nick Hannes
    • Rob Hogenbirk
    • Nils Jorgensen
    • Lesya Kim
    • Jill Maguire
    • Aniruddha Guha Sarkar
    • StreetMax21
    • Nick Turpin
  • in_public_streets

    Photo by Oksana Novoselskaya. The very best street Photo by Oksana Novoselskaya. The very best street photography today, global in breadth, both contemporary and historical, by established and emerging photographers.  Follow these photographers on iN-PUBLiC's Flickr Group (link in bio) for fresh and diverse street photography scenes from throughout the world today. Curated by Nils Jorgensen from iN-PUBLiC.com #canpubphoto #streetphotography #noai
    As an addition to his Beyond the Frame series, @th As an addition to his Beyond the Frame series, @th__street @filltheframefilm has released a video charting the work of @streetmax21 in the City of London over the last ten years. In that time, Streetmax21 has used the City as a sounding board to explore his unique approach to street photography.

https://youtu.be/ZcdosFexaaw

#streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets #squaremile #london 
@streetmax21
    An image selected by @nilsjorgensen_ for the iN-PU An image selected by @nilsjorgensen_ for the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool by Suresh Naganathan. Born in Switzerland in 1980, Suresh moved back to India in 2008. "Overwhelmed by the sounds, colors, and overbearing human presence in this new environment after 28 years in calm Switzerland, I picked up the camera in order to make sense of all the chaos surrounding me."
You can see more of his work on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/bek_the_sur/ or visit his website www.sureshn.com #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    “Nearing the end of my year spent pacing the cap “Nearing the end of my year spent pacing the capital's pavements (long legs, lengthy stride), I'm mulling over another 12 months of personal work. 

Specifically, here is a sequence of pictures - a sketch of four taken within thirty seconds in the City of London yesterday, 9th December. 

A couple are in the process of deciding how to make a memento for themselves. They then decide it should be of each other. Me as the photographer of them, the photographed, who photograph the sculpture, then themselves. A shifting choice of how they wish their day to be remembered. 

While the singular pictures I often show are more likely to be isolated in their own time-frame, they may also be one of serial moments where I have persisted, held my nerve, revealing tiny pieces of extra-chronology. 

These micro-stories unfold over seconds or minutes without warning. The hardest bit is being ready for absolutely anything. Interrupt the sequence and, although it exists temporarily in the real world, the entire narrative is lost to the permanency of the photograph. Not that this is ever foremost in my mind at the time. It's more about hanging on in there so by the end frame (once I’ve established what it is), I've held true to the end of the sentence, the visual full stop.”

Richard Baker, London.
    New rare iN-PUBLiC Zine! iNTERSECTiONS launches 🚀 in a small edition of 75 today! Visit in-public.com to get yours.
    An Image by @SubhranKarmakar selected for the iN-P An Image by @SubhranKarmakar selected for the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool by iP member @nilsjorgensen_ . Based in India Subhran says "I keep searching for stories the moment I step out of my house no matter if I am carrying a camera or not". This frame is nicely divided into areas, we have fish, we have a couple and we have a beach view but it also has lovely contrasts of scale, big figures, a giant hand with a ring, cast iron chains and a whole misty peninsula complete with distant moored boat. There is a nice echo between the fish and the couple but the picture doesn't rely on that juxtaposition alone. Add your images to the iN-PUBLiC Flickr group to be featured here and on the site. #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool (go join a An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr pool (go join and submit your most interesting candid public photographs) curated by the eclectic eye of @nilsjorgensen_ This beautifully lit pastoral scene reminded us of Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the perfect arrangement of semi clad figures all engaged in their own activities whilst part of the group and lit by the warm light of the setting sun appears to be a social paradise. Everyone is relaxed and at ease in the countryside, relaxing in the woods after bathing, an idilic scene. The image is by Boris Vian and you can see more of his work on Flickr. #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    On our front page today, the beautiful London Lock On our front page today, the beautiful London Lockdown pictures of @sarahmlee47 taken over the last year during Sarah’s walks and cycles around the City. The images are quiet, sensitive and contemplative, creating a personal poetic record of this time. #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr group as curate An image from the iN-PUBLiC Flickr group as curated by our own @nilsjorgensen_ from which we choose a few favourite Street Photographs to feature here. This intense pictures is by George Kuttner who lives in The Bronx, New York. The artificial light instils this shot with the quality of a film still, it looks colour graded for the movies. The moment itself is intimate and personal, we are intruding on a relationship, one that is close and trusting. The picture doesn't feel like a traditional Street Photograph in that it is closely cropped with few elements but it has that element we love, a moment. Follow George on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/georgekuttner/ #streetphotography #canpubphoto #in_public_streets
    It is with great pleasure that iN-PUBLiC welcomes It is with great pleasure that iN-PUBLiC welcomes Pau Buscato to the group. Pau is one of the great Street Photography talents to have emerged over the last decade, a natural talent with a very instinctive approach to making street images. His work is full of humorous and surreal moments plucked effortlessly from the public realm. “PHOTOGRAPHY IS BASICALLY A GAME FOR ME, I PLAY STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE CITY, ITS PEOPLE, ITS SIGNS, A SHADOW, A TREE, OR SOME TRASH….ANYTHING CAN HAVE A STARRING ROLE IN THIS GAME” #streetphotography #in_public_streets #canpubphoto #paubuscato @paubuscato
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