Street Photography by Guido Steenkamp » Exhibition

‘From Distant Streets’ exhibition showing some of my pictures

Guido — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:37:08 +0000

In the exhibition “From Distant Streets,” curator and photographer Richard Bram has gathered together the work of 29 photographers working around the globe in a multitude of styles but with one common thread: their photographs are of unposed, unrehearsed Reality.

Street Photography is thus Non-Fiction. It is not photojournalism per se, which is about recording events. Its concerns are much smaller but equally important, the little-noticed nuanced moments of everyday life. It is seeking the unusual in the everyday: As photographer, film-maker and blogger Nick Turpin puts it, “Good Street Photographs show you something you still would not have seen had you been there.”

Today cameras are everywhere and in everything. The camera in the average mobile phone has a higher resolution than the best digital cameras of ten years ago. Millions of images are recorded every hour in every part of the world. A large proportion of these are recordings of happenings in the streets, yet very few are what could be called Street Photographs. To rise above this mass of images, to create something special and to do it more than once is a fierce challenge, one that the photographers assembled at Galerie Hertz for the Louisville Photography Biennial have managed to do, and to do regularly.

The photographers are:

Blake Andrews, Eugene, OR
Anahita Avalos, Villahermosa, Mexico/France
Richard Bram, New York City
Maciej Dakowicz, Poland/Cardiff, Wales
Melanie Einzig, New York City
Adrian Fisk, UK/New Delhi
David Gibson, London
Siegfried Hansen, Hamburg, Germany
Nils Jorgensen, London/Cumbria, UK
Kate Kirkwood, Cumbria, UK
Felix Lupa, Tel Aviv, Israel
George Kelly, Portland, OR
Jesse Marlow, Melbourne, Australia
Stephen McLaren, London
Jan Meissner, New York City
Andy Morley-Hall, London/Wellington, New Zealand
Johanna Neurath, London
Kramer O’Neill, New York City
Mike Peters, New York City
Orville Robertson, New York City
Paul Russell, Weymouth, UK
Otto Snoek, Rotterdam, Netherlands
David Solomons, London
Guido Steenkamp, Berlin
Ying Tang, Shanghai/Cologne, Germany
Nick Turpin, London/Artemare, France
Kay von Aspern, Vienna
Dougie Wallace, Glasgow
Amani Willett, New York City

SECONDS2REAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION IN BERLIN

Guido — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:52:21 +0000

We are thrilled to announce “fascination street”, Seconds2Real’s first exhibition of contemporary Street Photography. The Berlin show opens 15th October 2011 and runs for two weeks. We will be showing more than 100 prints at the unique Meinblau Gallery, which makes this event the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Street Photography from Austria and Germany.

The Seconds2Real website has all the details.

Exhibition in Liverpool

Guido — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:41:05 +0000

In context of the Look11 Liverpool Photography Festival festival, me and some other Seconds2Real photographers are exhibiting work at Bold Street Coffee in Liverpool.

Our images are shown from 15th June until 13th July, 2011.

For a quick preview please check out the blog of Sara T’Rula’s who kindly organized the exhibition for us.

Bold Street Coffee Opening Times:

Mon-Sat 9am-6pm

Sun 10am-5pm

Sara will also be publishing an interview series with the Seconds2Real photographers on her blog in the next couple of weeks.

Seconds2Real introduction at exp12 gallery Berlin

Guido — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:26:30 +0000

Join me and some fellow Seconds2Real photographers on Feb. 12 at exp12 Gallery in Berlin. We will introduce our work and the concept of Seconds2Real in an open discussion with the audience. Detail information can be found on the Seconds2Real website.

C/O Gallery Berlin has to leave Postfuhramt

Guido — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:21:47 +0000

Berlin’s best known photo gallery, C/O Berlin, has to leave the beautiful Postfuhramt by March 2011. The building was sold to a foreign investor group. What a shame, i always loved the exhibitions at the Postfuhramt.

Solo exhibition at fenster61 gallery

Guido — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:58:48 +0000

My first exhibition at fenster61 just started. The pictures will be on display for the next four weeks.

selecting pictures

Guido — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:46:23 +0000

I’m currently selecting eight matching pictures for a small exhibition i will do in august. This is much more difficult than i imagined. Any hints?

new (virtual) exhibition

Guido — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:27:48 +0000

see my virtual exhibition at http://galerie.strassenfotograf.de/

They are closing down this project so my pics will be their last exhibition :-(