Social Media Ideas for Photographs: Urban/Street

Urban Photo Awards 2026: 35 Finalist Photos That Turn Everyday Streets Into Art

There’s something about great street photography that makes you slow down. A person caught mid-stride, a strange reflection, a burst of sunlight, or a completely ordinary corner ca...

Urban Photo Awards 2026: 35 Finalist Photos That Capture People in Their Element

There is a particular quality to taking photographs of people when they have forgotten that a camera is even present. Whether it’s a short burst of laughter, a moment of quiet refl...

American Urban Life and the Influential Photographers Who Captured It

Starting from the early 1900s, a new exhibition documents the rapid expansion of urban life in the United States through the eyes of the most important photographers from the 20th...

FRESH

"FRESH" — A person walks past a Dublin wall with painted flames and a "FRESH" sign in the Temple Bar district..

Monochrome Madness #68 – Urban Landscapes

My turn to host Monochrome Madness, and I thought it would be fun to do one of my favourite subjects, URBAN LANDSCAPES. Urban is defined as being near or in a city or town. I […]

Street Safari: Alan Schaller’s Stunning New Monograph Celebrates Animals in Black and White

Walk through any city long enough, and you’ll notice something interesting. The streets don’t belong only to people. They’re shared with pigeons hopping between commuters, stray ca...

Echoes of the Street: Meet the Macadam Awards 2026 Winners

Looking across a crowded sidewalk, there’s a rather odd coincidence: someone is caught in the act of taking a step and is entirely unaware of it. That’s what makes street photograp...

The Magic of the Streets: 35 Perfectly Timed Photos in the Right Spot

Street photography is funny that way. You can go down the same street every day, go past the same coffee shop, cross the same intersection, and yet still fail to notice the photogr...

Dublin Woman

"Dublin Woman" — A Dublin woman in a hurry crosses a street.

Geometry, Contrast, and Soul: Leon Yu’s Poetic Black and White Street Photography

If you walk around a busy city, you will notice a rather odd thing: most people are looking at everything while ignoring the things directly in front of them. A wall picks up a sli...

Views around the city Part 4 – Graffiti or Street Art in lanes

What’s that saying “Can’t Throw a Stone without Hitting . . . ” Well, that is most definitely the case with Graffiti in Melbourne. You will find street art in many places throughou...

Light, Color & Geometry: 40 Captivating Street Photos by Christianto Kumoro That Define Visual Poetry

Street photography can be loud, messy, and wonderfully unpredictable. But Christianto Kumoro sees something different hiding underneath all that urban chaos. Based in Jakarta, Indo...

The Ephemeral Gallery: A Flâneur’s Journey Through Parisian Street Art

From the 13th arrondissement to Belleville, Paris is an open-air museum of street art. Follow photographer Bill O'Such on a journey through the streets.

LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2026: 41 Remarkable Winning Photos

There’s something magical about street photography. You can walk the same block a hundred times and still catch something you’ve never seen before. A stranger’s expression, a perfe...

Portrait of a City review – master photographers capture the US cityscape in all its grime, grit and glory

Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonEra-defining photographs from the likes of Alfred Stieglitz, Saul Leiter and Dorothea Lange showcase the urban landscape, from midnight crime scenes...

When Timing Meets Composition: 34 Striking Black & White Street Photos of Paris by Gaspard Claude

Paris has been photographed to death. The Eiffel Tower, the Seine, Montmartre, those dreamy little cafés we’ve all seen them a million times. But what happens when a photographer i...

Looking through Windows – Leyton & Leytonstone – 1998

Looking through Windows – Leyton & Leytonstone: After photographing Claremont Road where the M11 protesters had covered many of the houses with some splendid art work I wandere...

Red Boxes

"Red Boxes" — Two red boxes on the sidewalk below a street art panel, Aberdeen.

Street art reflected in another building down a laneway

I have been talking a lot about street art and how you can find it in so many places around Melbourne. Most laneways seem to have some sort of art in them. I plan on […]

Creative Street Art: Injecting some Fun into the City

Down a couple of laneways – More things you see in the city Part 5

I’ve shown a few of these already, but in black and white. I thought it would be good to show them colour too. I also thought it would be good to see how different the […]

‘Street Safari’ by Alan Schaller Finds Humanity in Animals

Photographer Alan Schaller's first book, Metropolis, explored the isolation of living in the big city, a somber subject. His second book, however, should bring out a few more smile...

White Door, Dublin

"White Door, Dublin" — A white door surrounded by colorful street art imagery, Dublin.

Silent Sunday – Just some sights you see in the laneways around Melbourne