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 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.

Raf Lopes is a Brazilian photographer based in New York City. He photographs the streets on film and digital, and writes about photography in his Substack publication Camera Clara.

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 is a street photographer based in New York City. Her first book, Perfect Strangers, was published by Aperture in 2020.

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 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 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 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.

Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer from Brooklyn, New York. He is known for photographing people very close, often with a flash, on the streets of New York and in places like Haiti, Japan, Ireland and England.

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) was a German-born American photojournalist. He began in Berlin in the late 1920s and in 1936 became one of the first four staff photographers of Life magazine.

Christopher Anderson (born 1970) is a photographer and filmmaker, born in Kelowna, Canada, and raised in West Texas. He first became known for his work in conflict zones and for his pictures of Haitian migrants on a boat that sank at sea.

Harry Gruyaert (born 1941) is a Belgian photographer who lives in Paris. He was one of the first photographers in Europe to work entirely in color, and he has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1982.

Alex Webb (born 1952) is an American street photographer and a full member of Magnum Photos since 1979. He is known for complex, layered color pictures made in Mexico, the Caribbean, Istanbul and many other places.

Robert Frank (1924–2019) was a Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker who moved to New York in 1947. His book The Americans, made on a Guggenheim-funded road trip in 1955 and 1956, changed how photographers saw everyday life.

Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) was a French photographer of everyday life in Paris and its working-class suburbs. He worked for the Rapho agency for most of his career and made pictures for magazines such as Life and Vogue.

Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was an American photographer who spent her life photographing the streets of New York. Her pictures of children playing in the late 1930s and 1940s are among the best-loved images in street photography.

Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) was an American documentary photographer. She left a portrait studio in San Francisco to photograph the people of the Great Depression for the US government.

Eric Kim (born 1988) is an American street photographer, teacher and blogger. Born in San Francisco to a Korean-American family, he started his street photography blog in 2010 and has taught workshops around the world since 2011.