WePhoto Street 2017 Vol 5 Dear all, Here comes yet another moment of pride for WePhoto as we bring you the next Book under ‘The Series’ representing the genre - Street Photography. Since February 2014 when WePhoto was born we have come all this way simply because of our passion for this unparalleled art form. Over the time, thanks to the continuous help and support of our likeminded colleagues, who have been as enthusiast as me, that we have created many platforms to showcase the best works from across the globe in the 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, related picture boards on Pinterest, a dedicated website and about 75-odd 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 fifth thematic book dedicated to Street Photography. Apart from the e-version these publications are available in the form of coffee table books too. Editorial Team Mario Bunčuga: Editor & Art Director Pankaj Anand: Review Associate Germana De Chellis: Street Group Leader & Chief Graphic Designer
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We are so 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 around 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. Thanks to all the authors who have made this volume such a great collection with their valuable contributions. Thanks to our staff too, which is constantly managing and taking care of the group as well as its 12 thematic pages and online magazines. Thanks to my admin colleagues for their patient dedication. All this time when I remain away from the routine management of our network, they are the ones who take care of everything for the groups. I have no words to express my gratitude to the wonderful work they do every day with great passion and commitment. WePhoto Network the Founder Mario BunÄ?uga
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The Authors
Daša Ščuka
Mario Buncuga
Ed Peeters
Giovanni Paolini
Orna Naor
Mahesh Krishnamurthy
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Copyright 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. © 2018 WePhoto
© 2018 Mario Buncuga
© 2018 Daša Ščuka
© 2018 Ed Peeters
© 2018 Giovanni Paolini
© 2018 Mahesh Krishnamurthy
© 2018 Orna Naor
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WePhoto STREET Vol. 5 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.
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DAŠA ŠČUKA Ljubljana, Slovenia
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I was born in 1979 in Slovenia. One morning at the end of October 2013, when I was bored and had nothing to do, I bought my first camera on the spur of a moment.
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ED PEETERS Chitimba, Malawi instagram.com/edpeetersphotography/ facebook.com/EdPeetersPhotography www.edpeetersphotography.com
I was born in a small village in the south of the Netherlands called Meijel. Nowadays I live my life in Chitimba, Malawi, where I own and run a lodge/campsite along with the love of my life Carmen. Being in Africa I picked up my old hobby of photography once again.
I am one of those people who feel like they can see things better and more clearly through the viewfinder of a camera. I enjoy taking pictures of People, Landscapes, Architecture, Nature, Wildlife and everything else that appears in front of my camera. Basically, I just love taking pictures. I hope you will enjoy my work. 22
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GIOVANNI PAOLINI Milano, Italia
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Street Photography allows us to capture reality and produce immediate, real time images that tell their own story. One of the main proponent of this genre was undoubtedly Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was the father of the now popular decisive moment theory, ie the instant before and after which photography no longer has any meaning.
To do a good street you have to work hard, be very patient to see a situation and wait for the optimal conditions to materialize, then make several shots to bring home some good results. We need to have a lot of time available because what we want to happen does not always happen and we need to be ready to catch it when it shows up. When that decisive moment occurs to immortalize an instant we feel really satisfied. These images that I have chosen from my work seem to have reached the goal. I hope you will enjoy them. 34
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MAHESH KRISHNAMURTHY Jakarta, Indonesia
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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 initial few years, it was all about capturing landscapes, cityscapes, and historical objects, but now my passion is into photographing people, to be named as Street Photography, that I occasionally call Social Documentary and at other times -Natural Light Street Portraits. 46
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PIERLUIGI CUNA Salerno, Italia
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was born in 1968. 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. Going with the times I started clicking hand-held with my father's camera, an analog ZEISS, from which I switched to some other camera bodies and darkroom.
With the advent of technology, things have changed radically. I love living with people and watching communities. It is my utmost urge to continue photographing and that pushes me to go see new places that have potential for photography. I prefer Street Photography because I like to watch people in gestures and moods, and I always get to capture their emotions. Photography for me is a sketchbook on which I love to portray the mute scenes of life. 58
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MARIO BUNCUGA Brescia, Italia
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Photography, like any other art form is a work of passion. If you don’t have it you will end up clicking snapshots. It was sheer passion that drove me to found WePhoto, precisely as my own birthday present in the year 2014, I have been fortunate to bring together some equally enthusiastic fellow photographers who have shared the same passion and helped me administer WePhoto - the parent group as well as its multiple offshoots representing almost every single genre in photography.
Presently there is the parent group -WePhoto, and twelve related pages bringing forward the best works from across the globe; creating pinboards on Pinterest; and having published more than 75 Books on issuu.com along with their print versions. Street photography has marveled me the most right from my early days in photography. This form has taught me to capture the fleeting moments of life. I wonder how these moments would have been lost in the flow of time if not captured when they occured. Presented herewithin are some of those moments I have preserved and cherished the most. 70
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ORNA NAOR Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Orna Naor is a Street Photographer, lecturer and member of Israeli Street Photographers collective – URBANICA. Her street photography is shown in brick and mortar galleries in Israel and abroad, as well as in various Street Photography groups over the net. Her work is published in various Street Photography books and magazines such as WePhoto Street, World Street Photography, MonoPix, WeStreet, Israeli Lens Magazine etc.
Some of her collective shows (unless mentioned) are: Urbanica, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2014; Conflict, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2014; City Lights, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2014; CUBA, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2015; Nightmoves, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2015; Street, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2015; SWP, Hamburg, Germany, 2015; Badge of Shame, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2015; Israeli Art,Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2016; Street Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2016; Urbanites, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2016; My Cuba, Chicago, Illinois, US, 2016 (1st Solo); Local Testimony, the Israeli Photojournalism Exhibition. 82
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