Author: Andrew Mason

Enrique Navas is a photographer based in Lisbon, Portugal. Born in El Salvador, he migrated to the United States prior to the civil unrest of the 1980s that led his country to a brutal civil war.

He settled in the United States where it became home for him and his family for 40 years. After a successful career in K-12 education management, he retired in 2019 and moved permanently to Portugal where he now calls home. Over the years, he has become increasingly passionate about photography and has tried different genres. During the second COVID lockdown in Portugal, he joined a group of international street photographers based in London where he discovered street photography and “was bitten by the bug.” He combines his passion for traveling and street photography whenever possible. He is drawn to capturing and documenting the streets, everyday life, the unusual, and more importantly our common trait, humanity.

I have always had a passion for photography, especially with imagery of ballet and modern dance. I have had a camera in my hands, since I was fifteen years old. The photo I am exhibiting at this year’s London Photo Show, tells the story of how consumed the dancers are in perfecting their techniques, that they don’t realise there is a chef enjoying his baguette, in the background.

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Philippe is a Belgian based photographer.

He first became interested in photography at the age of 18 taking mostly holiday pictures and dabbled with some artistic exposures using film cameras during the late 70s.

His first love is landscape photography and regularly travels to picturesque destinations but ever since discovering street photography, he can’t get enough of it which led him to participate in an international street photography project over the past year.

He is an integral member of his local camera club and has had his work featured in several amateur photography exhibitions within his city.

Bharat Patel is a travel and social documentary photographer. Over the last several years he has earned a reputation for capturing stories of people and documenting their lives, from cultural rituals of the tribes of Omo Valley to the nomads and transgenders of India. Bharat works on different projects at the same time and regularly holds exhibitions. He has earned numerous awards for his photography and many of his prints are on the walls of private collectors. His striking images in B&W are particularly popular.

I am a self-taught photographer and filmmaker with formal education in Construction and Business management. My passion, however, is what drove me to pursue this path with my camera. My work conveys the disparity between middle and lower-class societies.

The juxtaposition between poverty and wealth – the blissful embrace of making do with what one possesses. Predominantly setting the tone that Ghana; being a hard place for many doesn’t take away the innate joy from the people nor discrediting its invigorating scenery

Gianluca Mortarotti is an Italian self-taught photographer based in London, UK.

The roots of his interest in photography lie in his father’s work. Developing films in the darkroom at a very young age and wedding photography work with him introduced Gianluca to the world of photography.

After his architecture and building engineering studies, the photographer started focusing on life in cities by capturing candid moments, exploring urban contrasts, and the oddity of human connections.

With his work, he attempts to speak through images about contemporary social issues and comment on social reality without turning down the intriguing presentation of street scenes or the impressive appearance of images.

“Birds flying high, you know how I feel…” – Nina Simone

In Portugal, on Sundays at around 12PM, there’s a TV channel that shows an episode of one of the many Sir David Attenborough’s shows. This has been a recurring occurrence for the past 20-25 years without fail. Ever since I was a child I remember waiting eagerly for those 45 minutes a week, more religiously than if I had ever gone to church. I remember being fascinated by the far and remote places, landscapes, animals, and plants, of things that I would never see, but more than anything I remember feeling awed by the aerial shots. Towering over enormous trees and vast forests, making them look so small and defenseless, as we so often forget they are. Those aerial views and shots gave, and still give, me shivers.

I have been photographing people and places since my days at Mass Art Institute in Boston, MA. In my last few years, my work has centred on the appreciating art of male nudes, enriching its beauty and perfection with my photography. Through the lens I see the innocence and vulnerability of the naked body; my work, with suggestive use of light and shadows, celebrates the humanity and strength of the naked form.

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Neville is interested mainly in architectural, abstract and urban landscape photography. He strives for minimalism in his approach, and always searches for different views of the ordinary by exploring line, colour, shape, texture, tone and pattern, looking for interpretation rather than representation.
‘House of Shadows II’ explores the sun moving across the sky throwing ever changing shadows through the windows onto the surfaces and objects within his house. This project is not looking to create documentary images but to explore these ever changing shadows by recording shapes, lines, patterns, tones and textures etc. It uses both Polaroid and Digital technology to find ways of breaking the images down and combining them to produce a new interpretation.

Paul Nezandonyi presents a series of images from his ongoing project ‘Taxi!’. A street photography project on London’s iconic Hackney carriage, its cabbies, and its passengers.

With their illuminated orange ‘TAXI’ signs, the Capital’s lustrous black cabs are famous worldwide and are as distinctive as red post boxes and double-decker buses. However, in recent years, they have been under threat due to the rise of taxi apps. Then, in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic hit with lockdown restrictions and halted tourism, further compounding the struggles of cabbies. Today, demand for rides has dramatically reduced, and most cabbies find it difficult to make a living.