WePhoto Street Vol 11 by Mario Buncuga

WePhoto Street 2021 Vol 11 Dear all, Here comes yet another moment of pride for WePhoto as we bring you our next book under a broader envelope called The Series, representing this time 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 eleventh 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 Bunčuga: 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 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 have been ensuring 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 Bunčuga

The Authors

Anna Paola Rosaspina

Orna Naor

Fabrizio Fontana

Pierluigi Cuna

Mia MP

Moah Mattos

Roberto Rampinelli

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. © 2021 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

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ANNA PAOLA ROSASPINA Bologna, Italia

flickr.com/photos/apetta/ instagram.com/annapaolarosaspina/ tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/annapaolarosaspina

Lately I've been exploring potential of the smartphone as a photographic medium. It is a flexible tool especially for street photography because it is not invasive and is always ready and present

After reading about Michael Christopher Brown, the first photographer from the Magnum Agency to use the iPhone exclusively for his reportages, I started using the app he uses most often - Hipstamatic. This app helps the photographer to add uniqueness to their work by creating photos with vintage looks. It manages to bring back the effects used by earlier film makers and photographers. 10

FABRIZIO FONTANA Chiasso, Svizzera

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I thank the friends of the Chiasso photocineclub for welcoming me to the Association and opening me up to new opportunities for growth After a basic training in economics and a short period of work in this sector, I got a chance to go on a hitchhiking trip that somehow lasted several months. I visited France, Spain, Morocco and Portugal, the countries that became my muses after my visit to them. Coming back, I saw a radical change in my life. The impulse made me quit my job, my family, and the place of origin and I started devoting myself to several cultural and social activities. From these circles, I got my first opportunity to become an amateur actor. The acclamation made me undertake this path professionally, by first going to Milan and then to Paris where I was introduced to various formative experiences

In Paris, I continued my training with the great masters Decroux, Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Jacques Lecoq. Eventually destiny took me to Rome and there, I started working in the world of entertainment and cinematography. During the entire journey of my life, photography has stayed with me, thanks to my brother Silvano, who was a professional photographer at the time. This passion has always belonged to me although my approach remains amateur. I am attracted to street photography which helps me to contemplate life and perceive its moods, smells and colors. It is a study, still in its infancy, and I want to get closer to the representation of its nuances through my clicks. I would like to thank the friends at the Chiasso PhotoCineClub for introducing me to the Association and opening me up to the newer opportunities for growth. 22

MIA MP Miami, USA

m.youtube.com/c/MiaMPPhotography facebook.com/pages/Mia-M-Photography/328032847328373

instagram.com/mia.mphotography_

I am a Cuban writer and photographer based in the USA. I graduated in Science of Communication at Havana University and I received my major in Visual Communications since I had always felt attracted to the world of imagery as a universal way to communicate. In 2001 I began to publish my studies, stories, and articles in different magazines.

In 2005, I fell in love with photography and started learning and participating in many projects, exhibitions, and photography groups. Since 2012, I have been working as a freelance writer and photographer for many magazines around the world. Nowadays, I also work as a teacher for some school in art programs. I tell my students that every day we have something new to learn; and going by the same philosophy I love creating, learning, and exploring further. Thank you very much to everyone for your support! I appreciate your attention and invite you to leave a feedback on my photographic work. 34

MOAH MATTOS São Paulo, Brasil

facebook.com/moahmattosphoto instagram.com/moahmattos/ facebook.com/venusaoespelhomagazine

I have been a lover of photography since forever. Self educated, I studied art through paintings and I use the knowledge acquired by reading about the techniques of great masters, in the photos I create.

I grew more curious and dissatisfied with what I was following and gradually started to build my own style, while photographing places, objects and people, giving them my signature looks. I portray the multi ethnicities of women in Brazil through my nude artistic essays. For me, each of these women is unique and beautiful and brave. I currently co administer the WePhoto Group 46

ORNA NAOR Tel-Aviv, Israel

orna.naor@gmail.com www.ornanaor.com

In Israel, many of the religious ceremonies and celebrations are taking place out in the streets. Kapparot in Yom Kippur, the candles in Hanukkah, the costumes of Purim and burning the bread before Passover are some examples. The present album is a collection of life in religious cities in Israel.

I am a street photographer, based in Israel, and I travel a lot. My street photography is shown in brick and mortar galleries in Israel and abroad, as well as in various street photography groups over the net; some of which I'm an Admin in. I focus on human moments and emotions, while creating my own story about what is happening. My work has been published in various Street books and magazines, for example WePhoto Street, World Street Photography, MonoPix, WeStreet, Israeli Lens Magazine, Shades of Grey Magazine, to name a few. Some of the shows where my work has been displayed are SWP- Hamburg, MY CUBA- Chicago Miami Street festival, Streets Sans Frontiers- Paris, PHOS FestivalSofia, Bulgaria, Diver City exhibition- Tel Aviv, PCOI 3rd international photography exhibition- Kolkata, India, Monochrome GuruShot exhibition- Ljubljana, Slovenia. 58

PIERLUIGI CUNA Salerno, Italia

facebook.com/pierluigi.cuna1 facebook.com/magazzino

I was born in 1968 in a country in Sicily. I have a passion for photography since the age of fourteen when I was given an instant "Polaroid". Since then, I have continued to explore this fantastic world. Continuing with the times, I started photographing with my father's camera, an analog ZEISS, handheld, and then I went on to try the other camera bodies and the processing in a darkroom

Since the advent of digital, things have changed radically. I love living with people, watching communities. It is the desire to photograph that continually pushes me to go to see elsewhere, where I always realize new images. I prefer Street Photography because I like to watch people in gestures and moods, where I a lw a y s t r y t o c a p t u re t h e i r e m o t i o n s . "Photography is for me a journey through which I like telling the mute scenes of life." 70

ROBERTO RAMPINELLI Bergamo, Italia

facebook.com/roberto.rampinelli.3 instagram.com/rampinelliroberto/ I live in Bergamo, where I was born on 24 June 1959. I have loved photography since I was a child, when I used to watch photographers at work and was enraptured by the prodigies with which they transformed the clicks of their "magic boxes" into very realistic "drawings". I have cultivated this passion over the years, initially only dreaming about it and then starting with the first technical rudiments, learned from a dear friend, with a small camera given to me with little money and a lot of love by my father, whose unique but fundamental quality was that it was completely manual and equipped with an exposure meter.

From there I continued to refine my technique, but above all I discovered little by little the subjects that I am most passionate about and the common thread that unites them, which is the humanity of people: in work, sport, art (especially dance), religion, but also in the simplest moments of everyday life men and women become "human beings" and my desire today is to be able to represent their humanity. I am not a professional photographer. I am a Human Resources Director in a company. I like my job for many reasons, and some of them are probably the same reasons why I love photography. A separate chapter, now closed, was underwater photography in the days of film and the legendary Nikonos. With the nikonos 2 (calypso nikkor) I photographed using its incredible bulb flash. Then, with the nikonos 5, the last of the series, things became a little less awkward. Although the experience is over, I still have fond memories of it, as well as a thousand photos, now also in digital format. 82

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