For more than thirty years, from Belgium to Morocco, and from India to Egypt, Harry Gruyaert has been recording the subtle chromatic vibrations of Eastern and Western light. Far from indulging in stereotypical exoticism, Harry Gruyaert has a vision of faraway countries that locates the viewer within peculiar and somewhat impenetrable atmospheres. Harry Gruyaert joined Magnum Photos in 1981. In his later work, he has abandoned the Cibachrome process in favor of digital print. Better suited to revealing the rich shades found in his films, digital print opens new possibilities for his work, bringing it one step closer to his original intention, namely to give color the means to assert its true existence.

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Bieke Depoorter received her master’s degree in photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 2009. She works mostly on autonomous projects. In 2009, she travelled through Russia, photographing people in whose homes she had spent a single night for her series 'Ou Menya', which won several prizes, including the Magnum Expression Award, and led to a book, published by Lannoo in 2011. A similar long-term project in the United States led to her second book 'I am about to call it a day', co-published in 2014 by Edition Patrick Frey and Hannibal. Currently, Bieke undertakes various works, such as 'In Between', where she is photographing in the intimacy of Egyptian Families. She joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in July 2012, became an associate Member in 2014, and was made a full member in 2016.

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David Gibson has been taking street photographs for more than twenty five years. He is one of the founder members of iN-PUBLiC the international collective of street photographers and his work has been widely published and exhibited. His book 'The Street Photographer’s Manual' was published by Thames and Hudson in 2014.

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Jens Olof Lasthein was born 1964 and has been working as a freelance photographer since 1992. He has held about 50 solo exhibitions around the world and published three books: 'Moments in Between' about the Balkan wars in the 90ies, 'White Sea Black Sea' about the borderland between eastern and western Europe, 'Home Among Black Hills' with pictures from Charleroi in Belgium. His fourth book 'Meanwhile Across the Mountain' with pictures from the Caucasus will be published in January 2017 and will include the series from Abkhazia with which he won the Leica Oscar Barnack Award in 2010.

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Otto Snoek works as a documentary photography in a radical aesthetic way. He is interested in “the street” only to witness the more abstract processes that are taking place in society as a whole. His themes are about metropolitan culture in Western societies and can be categorized under the heading of “slow journalism”. However, the results are not pressing news but have been represented in the form of a book and an exhibition.

Snoek moves preferably in places where many people gather: in the centers of large cities or at mass gatherings. He is in the midst of the crowd and makes his pictures quickly and often frontal. The people in his photographs have no opportunity to prepare for the shot. This is clearly seen: no picture is contrived, and poses and postures are defined in an image without any restraint from the photographer. This immediacy is reflected in the result, which is experienced by many observers as uncompromising and confrontational. But Snoek is “only” shooting what he sees. Capturing scenes that are astonishing even to him.

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Tomasz Lazar, born 1985 in Szczecin, Poland, is an independent photographer, a graduate of the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology.  He is the winner of photography contests in Poland and abroad (e.g. World Press Photo, POY, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award, the International Photography Award, BZWBK Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, Lumix Festival for Young Journalism. His work was published in newspapers and magazines like: New York Times, Newswek International, Sunday Times Magazine, New Yorker  and  Los Angeles Times. He is a coffee-lover and a good music enthusiast. He derives pleasure from spending time with other people and devotes most of his time to photography.

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Paul Russel is a street photographer based in the seaside town of Weymouth, England, currently shooting in Bath, Brighton, London and Weymouth. He see his photography as a study of human natural history and ecology, and his approach has been informed by his academic studies of non-human animals. His work has been collected by the Museum of London, and he is one of 46 international photographers profiled in 2010’s Thames & Hudson book, 'Street Photography Now'. He is also a member of the iN-PUBLiC photography collective.

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Candid public photography or street photography has been at the heart of Nick Turpin’s personal and commercial work for 27 years. Since studying photography at the University of Westminster in London and throughout his career with The Independent Newspaper and as an advertising photographer, Nick has been fascinated by ’the moment’ and considers street photography to be the greatest challenge he ever undertakes with a camera. In 2000 Nick founded the first street photographers group iN-PUBLiC which has played a major role in the popular global resurgence of street photography as a form.

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Just after he got his degree in photography in 1997, Gaël began the personal project 'Aveuglément' (Blindly) photographing the cooperatives for the blind in West Africa, which later became a book 'AVEUGLEMENT' in the Photo Poche series edited by Robert Delpire 2001. The serie has been exhibited in 5 European capitals and awarded twice. In the same year, after the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, he got several assignments to make the 'Being 20 in Kabul' book project, published in 2003 ('Avoir 20 ans à Kaboul', Alternatives editions, Paris). The exhibition travelled in different European places. In 2006, Gaël was the recipient of the Golden Clover award (Belgium) to complete his project on the route of the Voodoo cult, from its African origins to Haiti and the United States.

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Born in Belgium in 1977, trained as a journalist, Cédric Gerbehaye has chosen photography as a way of recounting the world. Between 2002 and 2006, he worked in Israel and Palestine and was awarded two distinctions in the Prix Photographie Ouverte from Charleroi Photography Museum. A year later, his work 'Gaza: summer rains' received special acclaim in the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents. In 2007, he started going regularly to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bringing back an important body of work. 'Congo in Limbo' was published in a book (Le Bec en L’Air, 2010), showed in many exhibitions and has earned him seven international distinctions, including a World Press Photo Award and the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club of America. Shortly after, he decided to work on South Sudan and his series 'Land of Cush' (Le Bec en L’Air, 2013) was awarded the Prix SCAM Roger Pic in 2012.

Satoru Toma (Gumma, Japan, 1976) is a Japanese artist living in Brussels. Having studied literature at the University of Tokyo, in 1998 he decided to go to Europe and embark on artistic work. He started to stray like a cat in order to discover his new city, Brussels. This is how he embarked on his photography project on the landscapes and territorial limits of the city.

Philippe Herbet was born in Istanbul in 1964, he lives between Liège (Belgium), Minsk (Belarus) and elsewhere. Since 15 years he grows what he calls a Rhizome composed of photographs and texts in the former USSR. He is a photographer for the street, the wandering, the meeting of the marvelous emerging from everyday life. He exhibit his photos and artsist’s books in Belgium (Espace photographique Contretype, Museum of Photography in Charleroi), France (gallery Camera Obscura in Paris, ENS Lyon) en Brazil (MUBE, Sao Paulo). He has published 8 monographs, including 'Les Filles de Tourguéniev', at Bessard editions in Paris.

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Born and raised in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and currently living in Munich, Germany. Jakub started his visual experience around 1997 with drawing & spraying. Photography caught him a few years later. Around 2012 he got his first camera. Since 2013 he is making unposed photographs in public (street/documentary), urban photography & photography in general. He’s been a curator and editor for WorldSP.co, selecting the best work to be published on the website.

Daniel Osorio (Dani Oshi) is a Venezuelan with Italian roots self-taught photographer who lives in Brussels. Life observer and urban explorer. Photography is his passion and he enjoys documenting every day life in the streets. Currently working as a freelance photographer, he uses his free time for learning more about photography and shooting in the streets trying different techniques. He enjoys doing print exchanges and he gets inspired by contemporary photographers.

Daniel was the founder of WorldSP.co and also one of the main editors and curators, helping selecting the best work to display on the website. Daniel is also one of the founders of the Brussels Street Photography Festival as he profoundly believes in promoting street photography as a medium of expression.

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The son of a diplomat, Chris Suspect was born in the Philippines in 1968. He is a street and documentary photographer hailing from the Washington, DC area. He specializes in capturing absurd and profound moments in the quotidian. His street photography work has been recognized internationally and has been exhibited in Miami, Germany, Georgia and the United Kingdom. His documentary work on the underground music scene in Washington, D.C., was published as a book 'Suspect Device' by Empty Stretch in 2014 and was a featured exhibit at the Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival 2015 in Tblisi, Georgia. This same project was also featured in the Leica Galerie at Photokina 2014 in Koln, Germany. The work is currently held in the Leica Galerie Archives. Since 2012 he has been a member of the STRATA photo collective, focussing on street photography.

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Rohit Vohra is a street/ travel photographer, educator and co-founder/editor in chief of APF Magazine. In a search for methods to read the city, his photographs are often about contact with humans and basic living elements. He received his BFA from College of Arts, Delhi in the year 1997 and has been photographing for over 14 years. He is one of Asia’s most prominent street photographers. His works have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines all over the world. Among other commercial work, which includes product and fashion, he personally likes street photography because of the uncertainty, the challenge, the joy of capturing that perfect moment, perfect in terms of light, texture, and elements all perfectly in place. For him street photography is one of the purest forms of photography.

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Vineet Vohra is a Leica Ambassador born on 2nd November 1973 in New Delhi/India, with a first-class degree in fine arts from the prestigious College of Arts. He is a self-taught photographer, and street photography is a passion. Vohra began his professional career as a wildlife photographer for two years before turning his lens to the street in 2001. In 2011, Vineet co-founded APF. It’s an evolving magazine and a platform for emerging photographers, artists and designers to showcase their work.

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Getting lost in the urban jungle is a true passion of Kristin Van den Eede, and she is either constantly taking pictures or thinking about taking them. By day, she is a language teacher, translator and proofreader, but almost all her spare time is devoted to photography. Together with her partner in crime, Kristof Vande Velde, she roams the streets looking for images that excite or move her in some way. She is usually drawn to emotionally evocative scenes, extraordinary lighting or striking contrasts. Recently, she has been exploring the limits of darkness and is currently working on a series that delves into this further.

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Born in Belgium in 1983, his photography passion started about thirty years later. Although he started as an autodidact, he later on went to study photography at the St. Lucas Academy in Ghent (Belgium). He tries to combine his job as a secondary school teacher with street photography as best as he can. What attracts him in photography is capturing a moment that only exists for a nanosecond and to him, street photography is the ultimate way to achieve this. It also gets him to see the world, together with his partner in art and life, Kristin Van den Eede. He works as a curator and reviewer for the AFP Flickr group and APF magazine.