Melissa O’Shaughnessy

Melissa O’Shaughnessy is a New York City–based street photographer born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and trained in journalism and art history. She took up photography later in life and has spent more than a decade walking the city, observing and photographing its crowds and fleeting moments with a curious, humanist eye. Her work has been shown internationally and appears in several major street photography anthologies, including Bystander: A History of Street Photography and Women Street Photographers. She is a member of the collective UP Photographers, and her first monograph, Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs, was published by Aperture with an introduction by Joel Meyerowitz, bringing together years of her daily work on the city’s sidewalks and avenues. (Website, Facebook, Instagram, X,com)