Sukhjeet Singh Gill
Round 40 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Sukhjeet Singh Gill, a 37-year-old passionate photographer based in Delhi, does not limit himself to any specific niche or style of photography. Instead, he is captivated by capturing people, places, and moments that fascinate him. His photography provides viewers with an insight into his perspective of the world around him. Though he is a versatile photographer, Sukhjeet has a particular inclination towards street photography.
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Benny Decoster
Round 34 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Benny Decoster, a 37-year-old man, has been dabbling in street photography for a few years now. However, it's only been a year since he started pursuing this interest more intensively. Benny resides in Belgium, but his favorite city is Paris, which he visits twice a month.
In his professional life, Benny works as a buyer for the photo department, catering to 75 stores. This role not only aligns with his interest in photography but also gives him a unique perspective into the world of photographic equipment and trends.
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Rosetta Lynn Truncellito
Round 33 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Rosetta, who is 40 years old, works as a professional nanny and engages in photography as a side hobby. Her preference is street photography, but she has also embarked on a few paid photo shoots. She has independently covered a small wedding, creating a photo book for the couple, and has played the role of a second shooter at another wedding. In addition, she has captured holiday family photoshoots and produced a number of photoshoots for her friends' dating profiles.
For years, Rosetta has been complimented on the photos she has taken with cell phones, an activity she has always found enjoyable. A couple of years ago, as Christmas approached, she requested her sister to gift her a Nikon D3500, a professional camera, which her sister obliged. Her boyfriend, too, supported her passion by gifting her a fish-eye lens and a flash for her birthday. He even developed an interest in photography himself, and now they often head out together for photo shoots. That's the story of how Rosetta's photographic journey began, and she's always open to answering any more specific questions.
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Pranay Agrawal
Round 28 & 31 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Born in India in 2001, Pranay is currently studying photography in Delhi. Intrigued by the world of numbers, science, and computers, he pursued his bachelor's in mathematical sciences in Chennai, which initiated his journey into travel.
As Pranay traveled, he began observing moments that he wished he could capture and preserve. This led to a habit of photographing these scenes. Over the years, this habit transformed into a passion, and Pranay has been telling stories to the world through his lens since he got his camera in 2020.
In the last few years, Pranay has been on a journey of self-exploration and expression, diving deep into his interests in theoretical sciences and the vivid world. This also explains his keen interest in cinema.
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Atul Kumar Yadav
Round 26 & 34 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Atul Kumar Yadav is 19 year old (2022). He is currently doing bachelor in photography and he loves to do street photography. Atul started doing street photography in mid of 2021.
“I'm still an amateur photographer, I have lots of things to learn in this field.” - Atul Kumar Yadav
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Interview with Atul for ROUND 26
Dheeraj Dman
Round 25 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Dheeraj Dman is a 25year young artist. He belongs to a small village Kalwan, Haryana and lives in Delhi for last 3yrs. He is a freelance photographer and videographer most passionate about Street photography.
For him street photography is a medium to find his own voice and identity in everyday life.
First he shoots with his eyes and then goes for the shutter button and freezes the moment as soon as his eyes, heart and mind tells him.
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Emeline Perronno
Round 22 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Born and raised in France, Emeline moved to UK in 2008 and after years of immersion and observation, started to document what she was finding interesting. Her travels drew her into photography, wanting to really capture the beauties she was discovering without falling into clichés.
After following a course introducing her to a more technical approach, she dedicated herself in capturing moments, gestures, textures and stories that make the streets alive.
She started with digital, but recently has been falling in love with the “slower pace” of analog photography.
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INTERVIEW WITH EMELINE
Chetan Verma
Round 21 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Chetan Verma is a street photographer based out of Gurgaon, India, a suburb of India's capital - New Delhi.
Since around 5 years back, when he had barely begun clicking moments on the street, his love and
passion for Street Photography has only grown. It helps him to appreciate how life is full of so many
interesting possibilities that are in front of our eyes, only to be discovered if we look close enough.
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Takayuki Gonno
Round 19 Winner - About Photography Challenge
It’s been 7 years since Takayuki Gonno moved to LA from Osaka, Japan. His background was professional dancer in Japan. The reason why he came to US was to study English & dance ( Hip hop, street dance) He’s belonged to 3 local dance teams so far. In the process, he started to think about making dance as a movie like content. He started making dance movies for his dancer friends. That time,photography was just practice for making movies to study composition, framework,how catch the scenes. After pandemic, everything changed.
No dance events, nothing to do.
Photography became his mental health because I could taking photos by myself without meeting people.
He noticed how photography was fun and a moment of art, especially street photography. His subject is people. His style is making an ordinary scene dramatic and storytelling.
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Juan Carlo Calingo
Round 17 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Juan Carlo Calingo is a New York City-based photographer originally from the Philippines.
He started taking photos in the streets of New York City as a hobby. He found his passion for black and white photography capturing everyday urban life. His work is inspired by film noir emphasizing shadows and harsh lighting in his compositions. He finds joy in wandering the city capturing unique scenes and subjects shaped by light and shadows. Although monochrome is his preferred medium and accounts for majority of his work, he is currently expanding his photography repertoire with color photography.
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Salman Almadoug
Round 16 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Salman’s story started in 2009 when he bought his first camera. It started as a hobby. Then 2011 he started doing some freelance work for his friends and family. His love for photography was getting big and bigger. And 2013 Salman found out about Vivian Maier, “she was an amazing street photographer and she made me love this style of photography”. From 2013 until 2020, he was walking around the Twin Cities taking photos of beautiful street.
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Interview with Salman
Christopher Mazmanian
Round 14 & 15 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Interview with Christopher
Jon D. Pearson
Round 13 shared 1st place - About Photography Challenge
Jon is a street and documentary photographer in Omaha, Nebraska whose motto is “chase the light, be the light.” Jon is also the Director of Creativity at a brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation center called QLI. At QLI, Jon tells the stories of grit, resolve and resilience as people strive to live life to the fullest. His photographic heroes include William Albert Allard, Mary Ellen Mark, Eugene Richards, Garry Winogrand, Alex Webb and Eugene W. Smith.
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INTERVIEW WITH JON
Rob Shum
Round 10 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Rob is a creative director and photographer who uses a photojournalistic photography background to blend into fine art, fashion editorials, and portraits. His body of work is a marriage between fine art and street photography. He is also known for using 35mm film as well as digital platforms for creating my work.
He has been featured in several publications, most notably in the LA Times and gallery features with Leica Fotographie International (LFI)
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Callie Eh
Round 9 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Born and raised in Malaysia, currently based in Swiss.Since 2008, her travels have inspired her to capture life with photography.What started off as a pastime, capturing special moments of her time around new cities and environments, eventually evolved into a career she never foresaw coming. This very passion drove her to use the camera to express and deliver narratives previously unseen and untold. For her, photography became more than a way of creating memories.
Photography has been tremendous support for Callie and It has been a refuge for Callie during difficult times and a safe space to explore a multitude of emotions concerning love, conflict, and hope.
Callie’s works mostly refer to life “in the moment”. She captures people to reveal honesty and express the authenticity of their individuality, heritage, and life. The raw power of her images makes us want to know more about the subjects, their life, and their personal stories.
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