Independent Photographer Has Just Announced The Winners Of Its September 2022 Street Photography Competition.

The street photography competition is held to honor and award photographers for excellence in observing and documenting life on the streets. In this year’s Independent Photographer street photography event, images from more than 40 countries were reviewed, and ten winners and finalists were selected by the respected judge Jamel Shabaz.

Jamel Shabazz was born and raised in Brooklyn. He picked up his first camera at fifteen and started documenting his peers. Inspired by photographers such as Leonard Fried, James Van Derzee, and Gordon Parks, he was fascinated by their documentation of the African-American community.

In 1980, as a concerned photographer with a clear vision, he embarked on a mission to extensively document various aspects of life in New York City, from youth culture to a wide range of social conditions. Due to their novelty and uniqueness, the streets and the subway system became the background of many of his photos.

In the following, you can watch the works of these ten highly talented artists.

First place

• David Keith Brown

Women are dancing with balloons in Tagal, Central Java.

second place

• Erich Wallenberg

A perfectly timed high-contrast street scene shows the reflection of a colorful streetscape in the back window of a parked car and a pedestrian at the entrance of a building.

third place

• Julian Schooner

The sun came out in New York, and these beautiful shadows appeared and told their own different story of space, time, and dimension.

• Brendan May
• Atlanta, USA

• Gokhan Arr
• Turkey, Istanbul

• John Johns
• Chicago, USA

• Jonathan Jasper
• Sri Lanka

• It’s fruitful
• Egypt

• you are important

• Suresh Nagnatam
• India

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We hope you enjoyed watching this episode of Shutter. To see more works, visit the street photography contest website. What do you think about these pictures? Which picture did you like the most?