WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS

Published by Snap Collective

Photos and text by Charlotte Stone

192 pages

175 photographs

We are, all of us, multifaceted--no one word can describe who we are. The same goes for creativity. As an artist, I am attracted to many different types of photography, from street to landscape—each one as inspiring to me as the other. This book is a culmination of those passions, merging curiosity of human interaction with a genuine appreciation of nature's beauty.

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Artwork and text by Sandra Cattaneo Adorno

Hardcover accordion-fold with booklet

Published by Radius Books
10 x 13.25 inches
176 pages / 93 images (total)

ISBN: 9798890180780

Limited edition of only signed copies.

On April 20, 2024, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno unveiled 10 Years at the 7th edition of Personal Structures, which runs parallel with the 60th Venice Biennale. Organized by the European Cultural Centre, the 2024 edition focuses on the experience of foreigners, émigrés, exiled, and refugees, especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North. Throughout her practice, Cattaneo Adorno embarks on journeys around the globe with camera in hand, capturing glimmering flickers of daily life that evoke scenes from a dream, floating between reality and illusion.

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Published by Prestel Publishing, March 2021, curated by Gulnara Samoilova with a foreword by Amy Vitale and an introduction by Melissa Breyer.

This book is a celebration of 100 contemporary women photographers, both professional and amateur, who are capturing the world as they see it. Curated by the visual connections between pictures, the images are variously joyful, intriguing, and unexpected, offering a kaleidoscopic view of what happens when women across the world are behind the camera.

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From the photographer’s vast archive of street photography, Daydreaming is an exploration of the quieter moments of reflection; the pauses in our busy lives.

Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova is a Tatar-born American photographer, author, and the founder of Women Street Photographers. A former Associated Press photojournalist, Gulnara received national and international awards for her iconic photographs of September 11, including first prize in the World Press Photo competition and nomination for the Pulitzer Prize by the AP. Gulnara’s work is a part of major collections such as the Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library, New York Historical Society, and Houston Museum of Fine Arts. She holds a certificate in creative practices from the International Center of Photography and lives in New York City.

Published by Peanut Press, 2023

Book size 7.75" x 8.75" printed by Meridian Printing.

Print paper size 8.5" x 11"

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The German-born New York photographer Nina Welch-Kling is one of the new voices in Women Street Photography. With her latest work Duologues, Welch-Kling adds an artistic aspect to the genre: by combining two photographs as fixed diptychs, she creates a visual dialogue between two images that open up new dimensions to the viewer. Photographs taken within the blink of an eye unfold through their pairing: a wealth of connections, meanings and aesthetic relations. For the first time, these unique compositions can be enjoyed within the quiet realm of a book’s pages. As Jim Casper, founder of LensCulture, observes: “These diptychs produce visual echoes that evoke new ideas, new meanings, new connections— encouraging viewers to energize their own ways of seeing.”

Hardcover published by Kehrer Verlag, 2003

Texts by Christopher Giglio, Jeff Mermelstein, and Gulnara Samoilova

24 x 32cm

96 pages

86 color and b/w illustrations

ISBN 978-3-96900-086-1

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Watan by Graciela Magnoni is a pictorial-poetic book that explores and bridges the vibrant cultures of both eastern and western Punjab. The book captures the rupture of the watan (Homeland), the longing, the love and the connection. In addition to the photographs, the book has beautiful Punjabi poetry. The Punjab region is often referred to as the breadbasket of both India and Pakistan. Punjab was partitioned in 1947 into Eastern Punjab, staying with India, and a Western Punjab, forming a part of the newly created Pakistan. Before partition, Punjab was a religiously syncretic province comprising a Muslim majority and significant Hindu and Sikh populations that had cultivated the land and coexisted for hundreds of years. After partition, the Sikhs and Hindus from Western Punjab migrated to Eastern Punjab and the Muslims from India and East Punjab migrated to Western Punjab. Until today the two sides remain divided by a hard militarized border where communication is almost non-existent. Millions live a few hours journey from their ancestral village unable even to visit. The forewords are by Salima Hashimi in Pakistan and Gulzar in India.

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As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O’Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the soulful, and the proud. She has fallen for them all—perfect strangers.

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“HOLY is the most important book I have ever done. It's about the unleashed power of women. What women have gained over the last 50 years. The hard-won freedom that women are losing. Why every woman's autonomy is sacrosanct.”

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In Metropolis, Breyer turns her lens on the streets of New York, striving to document the city's strange magic and the infinite stories of its inhabitants.

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The pandemic serves as background to this story of human life and dynamics in a period of great individual and global uncertainty. From self portraits taken at the height of the lockdown to street photography in New York, Europe and Argentina, Trapped seeks to capture human feelings during these challenging times of social disruption and personal anxiety.

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Realities Hidden Within is the first book of the Italian documentary photographer Andrea Torrei, with an introduction by Sandro Parmiggiani. Over 130 photographs narrate a long journey through different cultures.

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In All the Colors I Am Inside, Deb Achak reflects on our relationship with the soft, quiet voice of our intuition and the beauty of who we are under the surface. Achak explores how our inner voice leads us on the most surprising and glorious adventures, but to hear it, we must quiet our brains and savor the present moment. Bringing together human and spiritual worlds, she uses landscapes that are rich and mysterious, the way our dreams and meditations might feel, and portraits in which the subject is consumed by nature, swept up by it. Achak seeks to represent the pictorial quality of intuition using imagery that walks the line between rare and familiar. Ultimately, the work invites us to think less, feel more. Deb Achak is an American artist. All the Colors I Am Inside marks the artist’s debut monograph.

Hardcover published by Kehrer Verlag, 2023

24 x 28 cm

112 pages

56 color illustrations

ISBN 978-3-96900-117-2

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PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco is an intimate journey to the pandemonium and paradise of the 1970s through early 1990s New York City. Meryl Meisler documented a tumultuous time in NYC’s history – epidemics of arson, crime, crack, and AIDS, intensified by a paralyzing blackout, political and fiscal crisis. Frequenting Manhattan’s legendary discos that arose amongst disorder, she captured hedonistic havens, celebrities, and revelers of the night. In contrast, daylight revealed the beauty of those who loved and thrived in burnt-out Bushwick, where she was a public school art teacher who photographed what she saw. Her effervescent images are personal memoir – love letters filled with compassion and humor mixed with angst, kept secret for decades until she retired from teaching. Meryl was headed to Studio54 the night of the ‘77 Blackout; the next day, she and the world heard of Bushwick, a hellish neighborhood where fires and looting erupted. In 2013, at BIZARRE, a Bushwick Drag / Burlesque Nightclub, she noticed a disco ball in the restroom, another over the dance floor. OMG – an epiphany! Bushwick was now THE sizzling club scene. The disparate worlds of Bushwick and Disco collided, becoming intertwining strands of NYC’s story and her journey. She realized the two bodies of work belonged together. Meryl’s internationally acclaimed books, A Tale of Two Cities Disco Era Bushwick (2014) and Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (2015) were just tips of the iceberg. She kept digging into her archive, finding hidden treasures. New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco takes a unique turn, from clandestine clubs into the classroom – students and staff creating a safer space to learn despite societal ills of poverty and prejudice. Her street photos radiate the joys of daily life amidst hardship. The nightlife images expose the edgiest, darkest activities she has ever shown. New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco is a true story of the resilient human spirit.

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Dreams the Black Sea is the second book by the Turkish documentary photographer Suzan Pektaş, with an introduction by Gulnara Samoilova.

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Beach Lovers is a series of intimate moments shared by couples at the beaches of NYC. These moments hold intimate gestures of couples; some tender, rubbing sunscreen on a partner's back; others lustful, a deep kiss in the water. Being amongst the waves and sand emboldens couples to enjoy more affectionate freedom, their inhibitions less hidden than anywhere else observed in the city. Beach Lovers is about the public display of intimacy between couples from diverse backgrounds, a claiming of public space for private tenderness.

Erica Reade is originally from Montreal Canada, and she has been living and working in NYC for over 15 years. Reade holds an MA in International Affairs from New School University, with a background in photography for social change. She became a freelance photographer in 2018. She spends as much time at the beach as possible, and her personal work is a reflection of that.

Hardcover, Daylight Books

Foreword by Gulnara Samoilova

ISBN-13: 9781954119130

120 pages; 66 Black & White Photographs

8 x 10 inches

$45 US

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- AURA awarded 3rd place at the International Photography Awards in the monograph book category -

Aura - The distinctive atmosphere or quality that surrounds and is generated by a place, person or thing.

AURA is my first book and illustrates my love of ocean pools, both for photographing and swimming.

In producing this book I have regularly been asked the question “Why do I keep photographing ocean pools?” Ocean Pools are my escape. My sanctuary. They’re where I feel grounded. My images reflect my own relationship with ocean pools. The pools I photograph are the ones I also love to swim in.

This book is a culmination of images I have taken over the past 7 years during regular visits to ocean pools along the NSW coastline. Each pool has its own aura which is generated by their design, the people who visit them, the differing light throughout the day, and the changing moods of the season. Dive in.

Each copy is signed and beautifully wrapped in test print pages from the book making it perfect for gift giving to others or to yourself.

Hard cover. 200 pages with 98 images. Published by Love Books, 2023.

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Village Girl is inspired by the people, the energy, the history, the peculiarities of each neighborhood, and shows that curiosity about a place doesn’t just exist for visitors and people who moved to the city as adults.

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