Phil Penman
Phil Penman is a British-born street photographer based in New York City. His books include New York Street Diaries (2023) and Street Scenes (2025), both published by teNeues.
Mark McGuire
Mark McGuire is a street photographer based in Dunedin, New Zealand. A former design academic, he photographs the city on his daily walks and shares the results in his Substack newsletter, Street Photography.
Wolfgang Zurborn
Wolfgang Zurborn is a German photographer, teacher and curator based in Cologne. His book Crowds (Kehrer Verlag, 2026) brings together colour photographs of crowds from the 1980s and 1990s.
Melissa O’Shaughnessy
Melissa O’Shaughnessy is a street photographer based in New York City. Her first book, Perfect Strangers, was published by Aperture in 2020.
David Katzenstein
David Katzenstein is a New York-based photographer whose work has taken him across the world for more than five decades. His book Between One and Another (Hirmer, 2026) brings together 144 photographs from 25 countries.
Jens Krauer
Jens Krauer is a street and documentary photographer based in Zurich. His first book, In Plain Sight (Kehrer Verlag, 2024), gathers ten years of candid photographs from cities around the world.
Danielle L Goldstein
Danielle L Goldstein is a photographer based in New York City. Her book Transience (Schilt Publishing & Gallery, 2025) collects photographs made in hotel rooms around the world.
Stefan Czurda
Stefan Czurda is an Austrian street photographer based in Vienna. In his series Urban Ghosts, he uses motion blur and abstraction to turn passers-by into ghostlike figures.
Louis Stettner
Louis Stettner (1922–2016) was an American photographer who spent his life between New York and Paris. He photographed ordinary people at work, at rest and in the street, and his pictures join American street photography with French humanist photography.
Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916–2001) was an American photographer from Philadelphia who made his best-known pictures on the streets of New York between 1946 and 1951. He earned his living with fashion and magazine work and photographed the city, often at dusk and at night, for himself.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (born 1934) is an American photographer from Aberdeen, Washington. Since the 1960s he has photographed what he calls the American social landscape: streets, shop windows, motel rooms, monuments and roadsides.
Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas (1921–1986) was an Austrian-born photographer who helped turn color photography into an art. A member of Magnum Photos from 1949, he became famous with a 24-page color essay on New York in Life magazine in 1953.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston (born 1939) is an American photographer from Memphis, Tennessee. His 1976 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York helped make color photography accepted as art.
Thomas Hoepker
Thomas Hoepker (1936–2024) was a German photojournalist from Munich and a member of Magnum Photos, which he led as president from 2003 to 2006. For many years he worked for Stern, in East Berlin and later in New York.
Ave Pildas
Ave Pildas (born 1939) is an American photographer, designer and teacher who lives in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his street portraits of Hollywood Boulevard from 1972 to 1975, collected in the book Star Struck.
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson (born 1933) is an American photographer who joined Magnum Photos in 1958. He is known for long, close projects with people on the edges of society, from a circus clown and a Brooklyn gang to one block in East Harlem and the New York subway.
André Kertész
André Kertész (1894–1985) was a Hungarian-born photographer who worked in Budapest, Paris and New York. In Paris in the late 1920s he made street scenes, night views and studio interiors that influenced photographers such as Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog (1930–2019) was a German-born Canadian photographer. From the 1950s on, he walked the streets of Vancouver with colour slide film, at a time when serious photography was almost always black and white.
William Klein
William Klein (1926–2022) was an American-born photographer, painter and filmmaker who lived in Paris for most of his life. His 1956 book about New York, full of grain, blur and faces close to the lens, changed street photography.