WePhoto Street Vol. 10 by Mario Buncuga

WePhoto Street 2020 -Vol. 10 Dear all, Here comes yet another moment of pride for WePhoto as we bring you our next book under the broader envelope called The Series, representing the genre - Street Photography. Since February 2014 when WePhoto was born we have come all this way simply for our passion for this unparalleled art form. Over the time, thanks to the continuous help and support of my like-minded colleagues who have always been as enthusiastic about this project as me, that we were able to create several platforms to showcase the best works from across the globe in various photography styles. Today WePhoto group has the widest presence across Facebook representing almost every possible genre of photography. As of date there are twelve thematic pages, a dedicated website and more than 100 books published online on issuu.com and in print. This annual collection called - The Series - is made of eBooks each belonging to a specific photographic theme, and includes the artwork of several authors from Italy and abroad. The one in your hands is the tenth thematic book dedicated to Street Photography. Apart from the e-version these publications are available in the form of printed coffee table books also. Editorial Team Mario BunÄ?uga: Editor & Art Director Pankaj Anand: Review Associate Priyanka Agrawal: Review Associate Germana De Chellis : Street Group Leader & Chief Graphic Designer

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We are excited and happy to feature these beautiful images and most of all, be able to share them with a wide range of viewers. Please help us spread the word across the community by sharing and recommending, wherever you can, these free eBooks from the links given ahead and on our webpages. This is how you may help us grow and share our passion for photography. In this book you may also find the links to our Facebook Group - WePhoto. You are welcome to join the group, and invite your friends to share their work and enjoy some of the best images from across the globe.

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Gratitude My special thanks to Germana de Chellis, Chief of WePhoto Street domain, who has helped me select images, contact authors and collect materials. She along with her team could always be found putting things together in the back office. Thanks to all the authors who have made this volume such a great collection with their valuable contributions. I again thank Germana for her impeccable layout and cover designs, and to Pankaj Anand and Priyanka Agrawal, who ensure meticulous translations to English, proofreading of drafts, and content development. I owe my thanks to our admin colleagues too, who are constantly managing and taking care of the group as well as its 12 thematic pages and online magazines and are ardently bringing forth the best photographers from all around the globe. I have no words to express my gratitude to the wonderful work they do every day with great passion and dedication. WePhoto Network the Founder Mario BunÄ?uga

The Authors

Anna Paola Rosaspina

Niklas Lindskog

Germana De Chellis

Pierluigi Cuna

Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Roberto Rampinelli

Mario BunÄ?uga

Ruth Chudaska-Clemenz

Copyrights All rights are reserved to WePhoto and Mario Bunčuga for this entire Book and to single authors for their individual photographs included in the related chapters. This book can be downloaded for free and distributed freely only as a whole. The images and text are exclusive property of the authors who might authorize their use elsewhere if they so wish, and contacted personally in advance. However any misuse or otherwise will be prosecuted through the prevalent rules on the subject of copyright. You may order a print version coffee table book from our linkage at Peecho online print service. © 2020 WePhoto

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INTRODUCTION : Street Street photography involves capturing ephemeral moments when subject matter, mood, composition, and light come together to create a meaningful or artistic photograph. The challenge of street photography—and its unique appeal—is finding a way to turn the mundane things we see every day into art. It encapsulates the unforgettable moments of life before they become history, small stories of our existence that would be lost in the flow of time if not captured and portrayed in an image and made immortal. Street life, like most other genres in photography, works around effective composition. It involves anticipation and since as the photographer you don’t usually have the choice of moving your subjects, you have to shift your position or wait for that decisive moment when the subject is right where and doing right what you expected them to do. Street photography may oftentimes be confused with the genre called Reportage. The fine difference lies in the intent and the basic principles about truly documenting the contents. Street life comes with a baggage of ethnic order as some street moments that the westerners define as exotic may be the everyday life for those who live in those places. The Street Photography has many nuances and may range from minimal style to a social report that documents the evils of a society tending to exclude and marginalize the weaker. But these are just a few facets of Street Life and those challenges many a time act as the major puller to the artists of this genre. The presented work is the finest collection of art and we hope that you will enjoy every bit of it. Mario Bunčuga Founder WePhoto Network June 2020

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ANNA PAOLA ROSASPINA Bologna, Italia

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My name is Anna Paola Rosaspina. I am a doctor and an amateur photographer. In my love for photography I may try to get into any photographic genre, though street photography remains the most congenial genre to me

Lately I am shooting with a mirrorless, which is much smoother to operate compared to a typical dSLR, and is much less visible. When the quarantine was declared, to comply with the ordinance I decided to always carry my camera along in order to document the daily life of my neighborhood during the few moments allowed outside. The result was this small black and white reportage: my quarantined neighborhood. 10

GERMANA DE CHELLIS Roma, Italia

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I photograph my neighborhood, the Tuscolano, which is very populous and full of photographic situations.

I photograph when I travel with public transport from one end of the city to the other in Rome, because I like to photograph people and tell a story through a single shot and I'm lucky because living in a metropolis, I have the opportunity to always find beautiful circumstances to catch the moment. You may find the right photo to take from every corner, even from the bus window. 22

MAHESH KRISHNAMURTHY Jakarta, Indonesia facebook.com/mahesh.krishnamurthy.980 nstagram.com/slices_of_the_street/

I was born in Hyderabad, India, and now live and work as a consultant in Jakarta, Indonesia.

My passion for photography began 10 years ago when I started traveling. In the early years, it was all about capturing landscapes, cityscapes, and historical objects, but now my passion is focussed upon Street Photography, Social Documentary, Natural Light Street Portraits and some Architecture. 34

MARIO BUNÄ&#x152;UGA Brescia, Italia

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I left shooting with the reflex long ago. Some times I was too busy making the ebooks in this series and other times too lazy to carry around heavy and bulky equipment. I confess that some of these images were taken with a mobile phone.

The theme Street has always fascinated me. There is a thrill in capturing unrepeatable moments, affixing them in time and giving them a life of their own. Images of places, faces, people in the act of living their daily lives which also becomes an almost immortal event, attached to these images forever. Over all these years, with dozens of publications made, with thousands of published images, I still get excited every time I see new images of the great authors that I have had the pleasure of publishing. I am proud of WePhoto - of the colleagues who have supported it during these years, of all the authors who have offered their images for publication and of all the members of our group who keep contributing to the its growth by sharing their worthy work. In this edition I make my little piece of contribution. Thank you all. 46

NIKLAS LINDSKOG UmeĂĽ, Sweden

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I'm a 56Â year old from Sweden, married to AnnaLena with two grown-up kids, who have both flown off the nest. When I was young I did athletics, mostly running 200-400 meters. At 19 I started coaching and at 27 I became a professional coach. This is still my job, even though I've drifted towards admin duties at the school for 16-19 year old athletes where I work.

I've been into photography for 43 years by now. In the beginning, I shot everything, with my friends and athletes as the most common subjects. But when I look at my old negatives, I realize I shot something similar to street photography right from the start. I've always liked to travel and have taken a lot of photos whenever I did. Since 2010 I've traveled extensively and combined my longing to discover the world with a growing passion for street photography. 58

PIERLUIGI CUNA Salerno, Italia

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I was born in 1968 in a countryside in Sicily. I have had a passion for photography since the age of fourteen when I used to have an instant Polaroid. Since then, I have continued to explore this fantastic world through my lens. Going with the times I started clicking with my father's camera, an analog ZEISS, from which I gradually switched to other camera bodies and owned a darkroom for image processing.

Now with the advent of technology, things have changed radically. I love living among people and the watching communities interact. It is that desire to photograph the unusual that continually pushes me to go and explore new places, where I could realize their potential for images. I prefer Street Photography because I like to study peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gestures, emotions and moods, and capture them to add that extra meaning to my photographs. Photography for me is a sketchbook on which I love to portray the mute scenes of life. 70

ROBERTO RAMPINELLI Bergamo, Italia

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I was born in 1959. I loved photography as a child, when I observed photographers at work and I was enraptured by the wonders with which they transformed the clicks of their magic boxes into beautiful pieces of art. I have cultivated this passion over the years initially just dreaming about it and then starting from its first technical rudiments. I learned the nuances from a dear friend with the help of a small camera given to me with much love by my father, whose unique basic quality was to go completely manual without even a light meter.

Since then I have continued refining the technique, and learned to study my subjects before pressing the shutter button. I am most passionate about the common thread that unites the people: not only at work, in sport, in art galleries, or religious activities, but also in the simplest moments of daily life as I see man transforming into a human being. My desire today is to be able to represent humanity. I'm a Human Resources Manager in a company and not a professional photographer. But the reason that makes me love my job of taking care of people is the same that makes me love photography. 82

RUTH CHUDASKA-CLEMENZ Finsterwalde, Germany

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I got fascinated by photography very early in life when my father gave me the first camera at the age of 8. During my high school time I met a professional photographer who showed me the essentials of photography and lended me a Nikon. He published my photos also when I was 18. Soon it became a dream for me to own a Nikon for myself.

Since then it has been more than 30 years with this hobby. I did not follow his way of being a professional photographer because I wanted to be free in my decisions about what to shoot and what not. For me pressure brings your creativity to a dead-end. But the fascination for photography never completely left me. After having long experience with analog Nikons I switched to the digital a few years ago, and with all its features I now feel like getting my dreams fulfilled. I own professional gear and try constantly to improve my skills and every day learn something new and interesting about photography and post processing. In my usual profession I work as a psychiatrist, an expert in testimonies for legal authorities in Germany. 94

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