" I want to stop and think about how I experience the streets in my city. I’m interested as a photographer in finding a way of converting the spaces that we pass through on our way to our destinations, into the destination. What if the overlooked areas of our cities could hold as much meaning for us as our homes do, or our places of work, or schools. Even if we don’t realize it. The places we pass every day have an enormous influence over who we are and our general perceptions of ourselves. We compare ourselves all day to strangers that we encounter on the street. We react to disturbing things or uplifting things. We are influenced by the advertising we see. We become bothered by people who knock into us, or bikers who nearly run us over. We fall in love in the streets. It plays a much larger role in our lives than we may understand.
We spend time thinking about what we’re going to do once we get to wherever our destination may be. But, not so much about what we just passed through. It’s the great subconscious subspace landscape that we all inhabit together.
I know that often in the US public space doesn’t register so much with us. It’s significance doesn’t quite hit us until after we’ve moved away from there. Then one day we stop to remember the old place and, how much better it was than where we are now. " (Brad Jones)
Self-Published/ Softcover/54pp/41 pictures/8.25"X6.25" Signed/Limited Edition of 100.
Through The Lands is proud to announce a further new member, this time from Mexico: Sunny Quintero. We are happy to count you Sunny and your beautiful work among us !
Sunny Quintero ventured into photography in 2007.
She was part of the staff of photographers at the "Excélsior" mexican newspaper for 10 years, she has collaborated with the Ministry of Culture of Mexico City, Publimetro, the Ministry of Public Function and as a freelance photographer for the Xinhua News Agency, her work has been published in national and foreign media such as the Courrier International, Fox News, El Clarín, Alamy, Europa Press, among others.
She has participated in various group exhibitions in Mexico, New York, Italy, France, India, Poland, Budapest and the United Arab Emirates, and has three individual exhibitions in Mexico City.
During the last few years she has dedicated herself to developing his vision within Street Photography, which has led her to obtain some recognition in various competitions such as: Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards 2023, Urban Photo Awards 2023, Paris International Street Photo Awards 2022 and 2023, Budapest International Photography Awards 2023, Eyeshot Open Call 2024, MX Street Photo Fest 2024.
She is the founder of the Mexican Women Photographers community, a space to make visible the street photography of Mexican women inside and outside the country, with which she has held 2 annual exhibitions, the last of them at the Museum of Mexico City in march 2024, bringing together the work of 80 finalist photographs from said call.
TTL is happy to announce that its member Ersen Sariozkan is being featured in Docu Magazine with images he took in Cuba back in 2017/2018.
"Gracias Fidel !
I have rarely enjoyed shooting a place so much.
Everything is stirring.
Cuba is a country with a fixed and ageless face. Like a scene rolling on a loop whose actors are parading and offering me a show that I strive to understand.
Striding along the streets, I immerse myself in the atmosphere. The colours intoxicate me, the laughters fascinate me and the light pierces me. Mingling with the crowd, staring at the fleeting gleams, I freeze the atmospheres which seem to me to transcribe at best the effervescence reigning overthere. I do not intend to theorize but to share as faithfully as possible the beauty of a country that I keep rediscovering. Through the forms, the tones and the contrasts, this decor is unfolding in front of me like a film in which I only have to select the small moments of eternity which seem to me to express at best all the things that made me shiver for only a fraction of a second."
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The collective is extremely happy to announce new member Nazile Bolat. Welcome dear Nazile !
Nazile is working at a private company as a financial advisor and she is one of the founding members of Womeninstreetturkey.
Until 2014, she was mainly taking souvenir photos. In 2014, she became a member of a photography club with the recommendation of a friend. After taking nature photos for about two years, she went on a different quest and came across street photography.
While she is watching people in the dynamic structure of the street, she loses herself in her world and tries something new, to be at the moment, and being led by the light is what excites her.
She lives in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. She often finds reasons to take pictures in the city she lives in, the village where she was born and raised, and other cities she travels to. She looks at the images that are normal for the people living in the village, but actually extraordinary, and believes that they are like surprises which are prepared only for her.
In a world where everything is constantly changing, the satisfaction of capturing the moment when a fragile balance is formed by including her intuition in what she sees, caused her to become passionately attached to street photography.
Our collective is proud to be part of the Eyeshot Magazine #13 about "Spirituality". Featured members are Julien Babigeon, Francesca Chiacchio, Bruno Cunha, Rui Miguel Cunha, Marc Erpelding, Heike Frielingsdorf, Kirsty Greenland, Aniruddha Guha Sarkar, Brad Jones, Nicolas Petit, Ersen Sariozkan, Daigo Tsukuda and Yiannis Yiasaris.
Through The Lands is proud to announce that Docu Magazine is featuring our member Francesca Chiacchio. The special edition includes 20 pictures Francesca shot in India during the Magh Mela festival in January 2023.
Click this link to see her work: Docu Magazine
The collective is extremely happy to welcome another new member: Kirsty Greenland !
Kirsty is a teacher and street photographer currently living in Perth, Australia.
She loves street photography because she is attracted to the randomness and beauty of unposed moments. She loves colour and movement and the play between light and shadows. Inspired by exploring Perth’s beaches in summer and the high contrast summer light, she is also completely unable to resist a street parade or a festival.
She has had work featured in various international exhibitions, including exhibiting with Unexposed Collective and Women Street Photographers. She was also featured in the Women Street Photographers book and Reclaim the Street.
Through The Lands is delighted to welcome Brad Jones as a new member of TTL.
Brad was born in Springfield, Missouri, and raised in suburban Memphis, Tennessee, where he studied illustration and photography. He has been working as a photographer in New York for the last 13 years.
In 2015, he began a personal project documenting his annual travels with family between Spain and Puerto Rico in the project called Dos Mundos.
In 2018, he began documenting the details of everyday life in New York City. This became the project A Fragile Utopia. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife and young son.
We are happy to announce that our member Francesca Chiacchio is part of the book 10 Street Photography. Published by Psychographics, it is a photography volume that offers a fascinating and surprising look into the world of street photography through the lens of 10 talented photographers.
Each photographer presents a series of 10 images that tell a unique visual story, capturing the creative energy that can be felt in every corner of the planet.
Our collective is proud to announce that our 14 members will take part in the exhibition at the Light Leaks Festival 2023 in Luxembourg. We will have three large walls to exhibit our work. The first wall is a presentation of our collective with a world map to show where we are based throughout the world, with a short biography of each member. The other two walls show two themes "Human Nature" and "Human Faith".
Francesca Chiacchio is judge and speaker at the Italian Street Photography Festival 2023. She will give a talk about her work and will later be joined by Marc Erpelding to present our collective Through The Lands.
Our member Anriruddha Guha Sarkar from India is also member of the street photography collective iN-PUBLiC and they just recently launched a magazine entitled "iNTERSECTiONS". Have a look at their work here iNTERSECTiONS Zine.
Our member Marc Erpelding from Luxembourg joined the Luxembourg Street Photography Collective early this year. The collective publishes magazines on a regular basis throughout the year dedicated to specific themes, like a neighbourhood or an event in Luxembourg. Have a look at their work here City Series.
Our member Yiannis Yiasaris presents his new book "Insignificant Moments".
"Street photography sees the world from an altered perspective. I capture insignificant yet extraordinary moments on an ordinary day. These insignificant moments exist for a fleeting second or two and then pass. I try to connect with them to see their hidden beauty, to capture them permanently.
This is where insignificant moments are made decisive." (Yiannis Yiasaris)
For more information: Insignificant Moments by Yiannis Yiasiris
After a successful crowdfunding round, our member Merlin Meuris is proud to announce his new book entitled The Glass Between Us.
The book traces several months of life in Brussels during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
"A reflection in a window, a border that separates us and protects us from an invisible virus. During this year, I walked the streets of Brussels to document the daily life of residents during the pandemic period.
Using glass through my photos has allowed me to maintain a physical barrier against the virus while maintaining visual proximity to the people I have photographed.
Glass can be a window, a wall, a mirror that isolates us but also connects us through a visual link." (Merlin Meuris)
All photos were taken between March and November 2020. The book is limited to 100 copies and includes about thirty photos. For more information, please visit https://merlinmeuris.org/
© Merlin Meuris
TTL collective is proud to announce that its members Francesca Chiacchio and Heike Frielingsdorf are included in the book Women Street Photographers published by Prestel. Congratulations!
The book explores the work of 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world today and features the experiences behind their greatest images.
ISBN: 978-3-7913-8740-6
© Francesca Chiacchio
© Heike Frielingsdorf
Our member Cagdas Kul will be part of this year's Istanbul Street Photography Festival (ISPF) jury. The ISPF is a well-attended event that represents street photography with different approaches and brings street photographers together.
For more information: https://streetphotoistanbul.com/en/juries/
Our member Diego Fedele has just published a new zine entitled The City Loop.
" The circuit of the five stations of Melbourne’s CBD, known as City Loop, gave me a path to follow and I’ve collected spontaneous moments on its streets. Southern Cross, Melbourne Central, Flinders street, among Melbourne’s most famous landmarks, where locals and tourists blend together. With the purpose to show a personal vision of the city, that reveals different kinds of light, corners, situations and to create a tension that tends to lead me somewhere but it does not.
So does a loop.
I would compare it to the “Agora-Phobia” itself, a loop of fears which makes you not be able to evolve, to find the way to live with, because when you are about to take a walk, shoulders tense with emotions, it brings up the bad experiences you had and convinces you to stay at home.
In December 2019, chosen the title, the series slowly started to take shape, however I unconsciously started the project on my arrival in Melbourne in 2018, where I walked on the same streets of the city, whenever I could. Yet it became my way out of the loop." (Diego Fedele)
For more information, please visit his website https://www.diegofedele.net/
© Diego Fedele
Our collective Through The Lands is honored to be featured on the Eyeshot website. Founded in 2017, Eyeshot is the first independent publisher working exclusively with Street and Documentary Photography and is devoted to printing and distributing Art publications dedicated to the most influential authors in the contemporary worldwide Photography scene.
© Cagdas Kul
We are pleased to announce the launch of THROUGH THE LANDS, a newly formed street photography collective. 15 members will be capturing everyday life around the world and exhibiting their very personal travelogues.
Stay tuned...