1. The 8 Street:
“The 8 Street is an international collective of street photographers. Since forming in October 2013, our goal has been to travel together extensively, capturing the cities and countries we visit in our own individual style. Our first trip together was Paris, the home of street photography, and since then we have travelled together to Istanbul, Berlin, Barcelona, Rome, Budapest as a collective. Trips to Myanmar, Cuba, India, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Japan have since followed.”
Members: Kristian Leven, Alexis Jaworski, Matthew Long, Nick Tucker, Adam Riley, Matt Tyler, Ross Harvey, Dominique Shaw, Liam Shaw, Lyndsey Goddard
2. Fotogenik Kollective
“Fotogenik is an international street photography collective created in 2018. It grew out of the need to share, to connect with others and to promote differing approaches to urban photography.”
Members: Jon Branburn, Luca S, Miguel de Pereda, Math Roberts, Barbara di Maio, Raphael Valverde
3. Full Frontal Flash
“For a vast majority of photographers, their story starts when they first pick up a camera. Ours’ came a bit later; when we first picked up a flash gun. For some of us, it was seeing the work of Richard Sandler or Bruce Gilden, the raw style of Weegee, for others it was Martin Parr’s super-color that pushed us toward flash. The idea to form a group came organically, a non-exclusive group, a camaraderie to further our individual crafts.”
Members: Gareth Bragdon, Gavin Bragdon, Boris the Flash, Jimmy Dovholt, Torsten Hendricks, Johan Jehlbo, Michelle Groskopf, Conor Beary, Tyler Simpson, Skyid Wang Ben Helton, Salvatore Matarazzo
4. Superluna Collective
“Superluna was founded in late 2016 as an international group of photographers. The idea came precisely on the day of the Super Moon phenomenon, hence the collective’s name. Our members come from around the world, all sharing the same passion and goal: to photograph candid scenes without necessarily subscribing to a single “street photography” style. We strive to embrace different interpretation of the genre, all within the framework of un-staged photos taken in public. From literal to surreal, with vivid colors or in black and white, we hope to show the beauty, humor and strangeness of everyday life.”
Members: Melissa Breyer, Nico Ferrara, Max Landi, Artyt Lerdrakmongkol, Daniele Martire, Roy Rozanski, Poupay
5. The Street Collective
“The Street Collectiveis an international group of photographers established in 2013. All nine current members are coming from different home countries and share a longtime interest in documenting their individual environment from a personal perspective. They are united in their enthusiasm to give significance to seemingly insignificant, elusive moments of everyday life.”
Members: Gabi Ben Avraham, Fabian Schreyer, Vineet Vohra, Dmitry Stepanenko,
Mats Alfredsson, Yves Vernin, Forrest Wallker.
6. Slowlight Collective
“Slow Light is an international collective of young photographers. Brought together through our shared passion for documenting everyday life, we formed the collective in 2017 with the intention of collaborating, pooling our resources, and pushing ourselves and each other as artists.”
Members: Nayeli Cruz, Sam Ferris, Julia Gillard, Spiros Loukopoulos, Kevin Samuels,
Dante Sisofo, and Max Slobodda.
7. Observe Collective
Members: Greg Allikas, Marcelo Argolo, Fadi BouKaram, Ronen Berka, Larry Cohen, Chris Farling, Larry Hallegua, David Horton, Danielle Houghton, Guille Ibañez, Michael May, Oguz Ozkan, Ilya Shtutsa, Kristin Van den Eede, Tom Young
8. UP Photographers
“Welcome to UP, a group born out of the ashes of the former In-Public. That site is now archived, and we have this new one with fresh energy. UP takes a more expansive, less dogmatic view of street photography’s possibilities. We have emerged stronger, a non-profit collective of 27 photographers. We may be spread around the world but we’ve found community together online.”
Members: Blake Andrews, Julia Baier, Aaron Berger, Richard Bram, Maciej Dakowicz, David Gibson, Todd Gross, Siegfried Hansen, Meg Hewitt, Richard Kalvar, Peter Kool, Charalampos Kydonakis, Graciela Magnoni, Jesse Marlow, Alison McCauley, Joel Meyerowitz, Igor Mukhin, Shin Noguchi, Melissa O’Shaughnessy, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Tavepong Pratoomwong, Paul Russell, Eléonore Simon, David Solomons, Matt Stuart, Matt Weber, Christophe Agou
9. interCollective
“Formed in 2016, interCollective was born from a desire to curate together. We want to showcase work by excellent photographers in one place – partly for our own inspiration, but also as a resource that others might be likewise inspired.”
Members: Paulus Ponizak and Efi Longinou
10. Burn My Eye
“Burn My Eye, an international photography collective born from the candid ethos of street photography, captures the truths, lies and fantasies of the world.”
Members: Joe Aguirre, Pau Buscató, Diada, Don Hudson, Zisis Kardianos, Ania Klosek, Andrew Kochanowski, Simon Kosoff, Gustavo Minas, TC Lin, JB Maher, Dimitris Makgryannakis, Rammy Narula, Junku Nishimura, Justin Sainsbury, Jack Simon, Barry Talis, Lukas Vasilikos, Justin Vogel, Julie Hrudová, Kanrapee Chokpaiboon
Italy
11. Italian Street Eyes Collective
“Italian Street Eyes is a collective of Italian photographers focused on the practice of street photography and with the desire to represent the world in an authorial and artistic way. Established in 2015 by two founding members, today ISE is aligned with the only approach it sees possible for continuous growth: the search for quality. Our main objective is to grow together, discussing research, results and developments. The secondary objective is to share the members’ job with other people.”
Members: Lorenzo Catena, Gimmi Corvaro, Fabrizio Delfini, Pierfranco Forrnasieri, Sergio Raffaele, Francesco Sembolini, Valeria Tofanelli, Daniele Zarri
12. SPontanea
“SPontanea is a collective of Italian photographers dedicated to Street Photography, formed in 2013. SPontanea is a coming together of diverse styles and visions. SPontanea is also research for projects, themes and ideas, within the collective as well as across the wider Italian photographic scene.”
Members: Emilio Barillaro, Nino Cannizzaro, Mary Cimetta, Vinicio Drappo, Marco Giusfredi, Dino Jasarevic, Lorenzo Lessi, Stefano Mirabella, Massimo Napoli, Fabrizio Quagliuso, Matteo Signanini, Umberto Verdoliva
13. InQuadra Collective
“InQuadra is photography collective founded in 2014. Focused mainly in street photography, InQuadra in 2017 has decided to broaden its “sight” and open up to other photo styles, letting its members express freely through any other photographic genre. InQuadra is currently composed of nine photographers based in Italy, United Kingdom, Belgium and Norway.”
Members: Roberto Deri, Benedetta Falugi, Reuven Halevi, Alex Liverani, Sara Nicomedi, Dani Oshi, Alberto Selvestrel, Matteo Sigolo, Mariano Silletti
14. EyeGoBananas
“We are a group of Italian photographers whose primary goal is to represent a world that follows no rules. We try to explain something that does not necessarily mean anything to the viewer, but it does to us. We are aware of this and we have no presumption. We just wonder with a camera. Sometimes we take a picture, sometimes we don’t. We are here, now, trying to understand ourselves through the images we capture.”
Members: Davide Albani, Riccardo Cattaneo, Diada’, Giorgio Scalici, Giacomo Vesprini, Matteo Zannoni
France
15. Fragment Photo Collective
“Fragment was born to promote a common culture through individual and collective series drawn from street photography. These different works are a way for members of the collective to communicate and react to the surrounding world while at the same time remaining open to the multiple forms of contemporary photography.”
Members: Fábio Costa, Jerome Lorieau, Julien Legrand, Kramer O’Neill, Marco Giusfredi, Nicolas Portnoï, Sébastien Bartoli, Silvain Biard, Thomy Keat
United States
16. LA Street Photo Collective
“The Los Angeles Street Collective is a group of photographers dedicated to shooting on the streets of Los Angeles. The members of this group consist of advanced street shooters who met in the “Street Shooting Program” launched in 2010, at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. We come together to explore the streets, practice our craft, and to inspire and challenge one another. Our aim is to promote street photography while sharing our images with other fellow street photographers from around the world.”
Members: Ali Le Roi, Andy House, Ann Toler, Basak Prince, Benedict Bacon, Gail Just, Julia Dean, Ken Deemer, Kevin Weinstein, Norman Schwartz, Maureen Bond, Patty Lemke, Rob Krauss, Safi Alia Shabaik, Thouly Dosios, Tim Taylor
17. New York Street Photography Collective
“Our mission is to share the art of street photography with an underserved community in NYC by establishing a gallery and educational space for people to exhibit, learn, and share work. NYC-SPC is dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of contemporary street photography.”
Members: Aaron Bunge, Cat Byrnes, Chris Voss, Eric Hsu, Frank Multari, Jon Walker, Jonathan Higbee, Jorge Garcia, Josh Ethan Johnson, Kalada Halliday, Laura Fontaine, Mark Beckenbach, Mathias Wasik, Matt Anderson, Rex Kandhai, Salim Hasbini, Sean Colello, Sebastian Siadecki, Steven Davis, Victor Llorente, Youngjae Lim, Zachary Cabanas
Poland
18. Flaneurs Photo Collective
“Flaneurs (from French word flàneur) are city rovers, watchful observers of life going on in public space. That’s what we are doing, and we’re also trying to keep these scenes on photosensitive material.”
Members: Joanna Grochala, Karina Krystosiak, Justyna Zawadzka, Michał Czarnecki, Michał Orliński, Krzysztof Wójcik
19. Streetical Collective
“Streetical is a Polish-based collective of photographers whose common interest lies in an usual-unusual everyday life presented in the form of candid street photography. Although connected by similar perception of the world around us we build distinct narrations expressed in different styles that we feel represent our individual voice . Our aim is to inspire mutually ourselves and others.”
Members: Magdalena Orylska, Norbert Oksza Strzelecki, Maciej Podgórski
20. Unposed
“Un-Posed was brought to life in 2011. The collective consists of photographers who specialise in unposed form of documentary also known as street photography. A genre which reveals the symbols and anecdotes hidden in everyday life which generally go unnoticed.”
Members: Damian Chrobak, Maciej Dakowicz, Jamie Fyson Howard, Joanna Kinowska, Anne Kłosek, Monika Krzyszkowska, Thomas Kulbowski, Marta Rybicka and Adrian Wykrota
Australia
21. Unexposed
“The unexposed collective is a platform for active and emerging women and non-binary street photographers in Australia. Australian ex-pats living elsewhere in the world are also welcome to participate. The purpose of the collective is for the unexposed to be ‘exposed’ within the street photography community nationally and internationally. ”
Members: Julia Coddington, Rebecca Wiltshire
22. Aussie Street
“AUSSIE STREET was established in 2017 by a group of like-minded photographers from around Australia who were brought together by their mutual passion for the genre of street photography. Together we aim to promote, create awareness about, and be proactive in fostering events that serve the street photography community in Australia. AUSSIE STREET is non-profit and strives to give back to the street photography community within Australia and to connect it with other street photography communities around the globe.”
Members: Deb Bonney, Sam Ferris, Didi S. Gilson, Jonathan Pui, Charlotte Reynolds, Justin Tan-Torres, Bryce Waters, Rachael Willis
India
23. In-street
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24. iN-PUBLiC
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.
Members: Richard Baker, Natan Dvir, Nick Hannes, Troy Holden, Nils Jorgensen, Lesya Kim, Jill Maguire, Aniruddha Guha Sarkar, StreetMax21, Nick Turpin, Rob Hogenbirk
26. Little Box Collective
“Little Box is an international collective of photographers that aims to both continue and expand the rich tradition of unposed/street photography. We are ethnically diverse and aim to be representative of different regions of the globe, not just the western/English-speaking world. We also commit to a fair representation of women photographers among our ranks.”
Members: Dimitri Mellos (Greece, NYC), Edas Wong (Hong Kong), Ilker Karaman (Turkey), Ivan Margot (Switzerland, Spain), Joanna Mrowka (Poland), Julia Coddington (Australia), Katarzyna Kubiak (Poland), Koushik Sinha Roy (India), Marina Koryakin (Israel, Ukraine), Muhammad Imam Hassan (Bangladesh), Nayeem Siddique (Bangladesh), Rab Thanasorn (Thailand), Rudy Boyer (France), Stavros Stamatiou (Greece), Suzan Pektas (Turkey), Taras Bychko (Ukraine) and Ximena Echague (Argentina, NYC, Brussels).
27. Optic Nerve Collective
“Optic Nerve are an international street photography collective who like to blur the boundaries between street and other areas of photography such as documentary, reportage, urban landscapes, portrait, events and anything else we feel like doing. In fact, we don’t need definitions, we just want to show you our stories!
The collective came together in 2017 with the intention that, through our shared interests and goals in street photography, we can achieve together, as a diverse group of people, more than we can achieve alone. Future ventures may include exhibitions, collaborated projects, zines, books, public competitions, print sales and charity work.”
Members: Michael Goldrei (Austria), Marci Lindsay (USA), Lauren Welles (USA)
29. HNL Street Collective from Hawaii
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