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In this issue, we explore some of the differences and difficulties of growing up around the world, with the help of beautiful and poignant articles by Corinne Spector, João Coelho, Orna Naor and Boy Jeconiah.

We’ll be back in September with 2 new books, but for now enjoy this latest magazine!

All the articles in this issue were curated by Keef Charles

Back cover João Coelho

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Cover by Alphan Yilmazmaden / 136 pages

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All the articles in this issue were curated by Michael Kennedy

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This time we have dedicated our issue to Turkish photographers. Obviously we don't presume to have exhausted the ranks of them, but we are sure that we have opened a space for people to appreciate the wonderful photography of this land. Thanks to all those who agreed to cooperate with us.

Back Cover Tuna Angel

Sami Uçan Sadık Üçok Efe Çaylak

Serra Kemmer Ayla Güvenç İmir Nazile Bolat

Alphan Yilmazmaden

Asli Ulaş Gönen

Tuna Angel

Volkan Colak

and Gurhan Gunes, Metin Yener, Safak Yavuz, Tahsin Gün, Tülin Ertürk

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#32

Cover by Stavros Stamatiou / 116 pages

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Special thanks to Theodoros Topalis and Michael Kennedy

Andreas Kamoutsis was born and raised in Athens, Greece in 1979. He has been engaged in Photography since 2013 and he has been an official photographer of Fujifilm “X-photographer” since 2016. Numerous of his photographs have been published in various means-online and in press such as newspapers and magazines which specialize in photography, both in Greece and abroad. He has given a series of talks, presenting his photographic work in many cities in Greece. Web Instagram FB

Betty Manousos is an award-winning street and documentary photographer currently based in Athens, Greece, owner and founder of CUT and DRY Blogzine, and a member of the Photographic Circle Collective. She holds a Business Administration and Marketing Degree. Her work has been published by Eye-Photo Magazine, Street Photography Magazine, Street Photographers Foundation, Street Sweeper Magazine, EyeShot, Inspired Eye, Urbanautica, Life Framer, Lens Culture, to name just a few. It has been exhibited in Athens, Berlin, New York, 2021 Photo Days Tour - Trieste Photo Days. Featured on UP Photographers, The Pictorial List, The Edge of Humanity, Six Feet Photography, Photologio.gr, AAP All About Photo Awards and many others. She was one of the winners at the London Photo Festival Street Photography 2021 and was a Gold

Giannis Angelakis is a street photographer based in Chania, Crete. He was born in 1979 and has lived most of my life in Chania. He has a degree on Cultural and Media Studies from the University of Wolverhampton (BSc) and studied at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham.

Margarita Mavromichalis speaks five languages and studied translation and interpreting. She likes to think that photography is her second language, as it’s a universal language, one that is understood by all across the world and conveys messages in the most powerful way. Her work has been displayed in exhibitions in New York, Boston, San Diego, The Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Historical Society and most recently in Budapest, Athens, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and London. Selected images are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Historical Society. She is the winner of the Pollux Awards in 2016, winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards in 2018 and 2020. In 2021, she won a Gold Medal at the Budapest International Foto Awards and a Silver Medal at the Prix de la Photographie Paris.

Maria Spyropoulou, lives and works in Athens as an art conservator. Over the past 30 years, she has been dedicating her free time to photography, mostly street photography. She has studied photography at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, department of Photography and she has attended course seminars regarding artistic photography at the “Photography Circle” school in Athens. She uses to take photographs in European countries, the Balkans, as well as Turkey. She has had two individual photo exhibitions and has been part of many group exhibitions in Greece, in photography festivals in Thessaloniki. Part of her work has also been published in several online and printed magazines.

Markos Kyprianos is a freelance photographer from Corfu island, Greece. Many of his photographs and interviews are displayed on the web

Niki Gleoudi, loves exploring relationships, emotions and the energy that lies beneath. Her work has been awarded and presented in group and solo exhibitions, such as the Somerset House London UK, HistoryMiami Museum Miami USA, Scope Art Show Miami during Art Basel USA, El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 New York USA, Galerie Joseph Turenne Paris France, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, Officine Fotografiche Rome Italy, Voies Off Festival Arles France, Gadcollection Gallery Paris France and others. Published at Street Photographers Book, Women Street Photographers Book, BURN Magazine, Eyeshot Magazine, The Best of LensCulture, Volume 3 Photobook, the APF Magazine, and other publications. Judge at London Street Photo Festival, UK and other photography competitions. International award-winning - finalist and published photographer (Sony Awards, LensCulture, WomenStreetPhotographers, Miami Street Photo Festival, Italian Street Photo Festival, IPA and TIFA, Budapest International Foto Awards, Brussels Street Photo Festival, StreetFoto San Francisco, WomeninStreet and other distinctions.

Petros Kotzabasis

Theodoros Topalis

Sakis Dazanis, is born, raises and lives in Kozani, Greece.
He is a Computer and Informatics Engineer and works as vice principal at Second Chance School of Kozani. Attended workshops and seminars by Jacob Aue Sobol, Paris Petridis and Platon Rivellis. Website Flickr Instagram (@sakisdazanis).
2017-2021 - Participations at many photography festivals worldwide as a competition finalist, and group exhibitions.. 2014 – “On-Off” personal, Kozani-Kastoria

Spyros Papaspyropoulos shoots mostly in Rethymno in Crete where he currently lives and in Athens, the capital of Greece, one of his favourite cities in the world. He is the Founder of StreetHunters.net and a strong believer in being free to photograph anything that is in the public. He loves breaking the rules, experimenting and making unconventional photos. Besides shooting digital, there are times when he enjoys using his old Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder film cameras. He loves shooting at the 28mm and 35mm focal lengths. Anything narrower feels too constricting for him. As another type of photography, Spyros likes Monochrome Landscape photography on very rare occasions. Additionally, you can find more of Spyro’s work and contact info on his personal website.

Stavros Stamatiou, was born in Kozani-Greece in 1965. He studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Heraklion and since 1988 he has been working as a teacher in public education. He currently lives in the Municipality of Thermaikos. He is a member of Little Box Collective, the Photography Center of Thessaloniki and the CLICKERS photography team. He has attended photography lessons with Tasos Schizas and art photography seminars with Plato Rivellis, Stratos Kalafatis, Paris Petrides and Iraklis Papaioannou. He has participated in workshops with photographers Eva Voutsaki, Nikos Economopoulos, Michael Ackerman, Achilles Nasios and Jason Eskenazi and portfolio reviews with Haris Kakarouhas and Jacob Aue Sobol. His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in various photography festivals in Greece and abroad, and have been published in many reputed magazines- printed and online – and photography websites. Lately, he has become a member of Full Frontal Collective and published his first book "Street as a mirror" in collaboration with Eyeshot. Book Website

Yiannis Yiasaris, was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1968, and lived there until 2001 when he moved to Melbourne, Australia. He became involved with photography in 2013. His interest in people leads him to discover his passion for street photography. Photographs and interviews of him have been published in several books and magazines, TV and Radio stations, and street photography blogs. Since 2019 is a member of the TTL collective (Through The Lands). An International street photographers’ collective. He has obtained many awards and has participated in many group exhibitions - 2019 Familiar Strangers solo exhibition Thessaloniki Greece.

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#31

Cover by Batsceba Hardy / 60 pages

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Horizon is an everyday word. Yet what is a horizon? Aside from being an imaginary line that divides the earth from the sky, that seems to place man in the center of a circle, the primary concept is something that delineates the finite from the infinite. Or something we want to achieve.

Here we're also concerned with a mental horizon. That's why we’ve included a feature on food, a horizon that opens up the unknown in Corinne Spector's story. Not only that, we’ve a story that tells us of a little known country, captured by the eyes of Bruno Lavi, who is always looking for new horizons.

And then there are the new steel and glass buildings that have escaped cities around the world. The horizon becomes an optical illusion. We are in the maze of Batsceba Hardy's fake world. And how different are the landscapes that span the horizons of Keef, Theo and Rene?

These are the horizons of our minds. But what we ultimately see are the pictures ...

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.” - Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Batsceba Hardy: I don't think I'm essentially a street photographer. I guess Photography is just the way for me to express how I see things. It has something to do with a philosophical approach to reality. I have always had this way of observing reality, dwelling on details, on scenes that tell me something. I am…

Bruno Lavi, I fell in love with photography at the age of 50 and consider it as a great gift for me! Photography for me is a multi-layered journey of material and human environmental discovery. As with every journey, I enter known or unknown areas, sometimes alone sometimes accompanied but always with the dream of discovering something else in the realm of creativity.Most of my work is about people and contact. In general, the humanistic ethos is at the center of my interest where the human been with his attitudes, attributes, activities, or thoughts is always at the center.

Corinne Spector: I was born in 1961 in Morocco, and live in Israel at the age of nine months. I spent my childhood in Jaffa. I was always a storyteller; I am the eldest of six sisters, so I always invented and told them stories. My passion for photography was born a long time ago. It seems I always had a camera but I never really learned to take photos. I always documented my daily life, and that of my family, and with my camera, I wanted to tell stories. The street, from my perspective, is a place where I am a participative observer – and this requires me to listen carefully and watch closely. There is a great deal of attention to detail needed but my focus changes all the time – suddenly something else attracts my attention.
In street photography, the camera is a tool that intensifies our senses with regards to our surroundings. We look at the world from a perspective that can be critical or empathic – in this way, one often chooses to tell one's story.

Theodoros Topalis, my name Is Theodoros Topalis. I was born in 1968, raised and live in Germany as a son of Greek immigrants, but now I am based in Kavala (Greece). My interest in street photography is maybe a result of two things: The urge to walk in the streets of the cities, and the curiosity about humankind. So it was quite inescapable to become a street photographer, one day.With my images I didn’t follow any deeper sense, they are just the way I see the world and express it with my creativity.

Keef Charles, I was born in 1958. As kids whose father was in Royal Air Force, we travelled a lot, home and abroad. He loved to use his camera. For a number of years, I worked for foreign companies, travelling fairly extensively as part of my job. Living and working abroad has made a difference in how I perceive and view things. Looking at life through the lens has always felt special, capturing moments that somehow help anchor me to life. I must admit that I didn’t serious about my photography until I discovered the Street genre in 2016, I didn’t start to feel the significance until I joined the editorial team of Progressive-Street Photography in 2019. I love to capture moments, moods and memories. Both story and keepsake. They are not simple images but slices of life; both mine and protagonists’ within my shots.

Rene Geensen: My name is Rene Geensen. Born January 12, 1964 in Wormerveer, a small village near Amsterdam. Raised in the Poelenburg district in Zaandam, a multicultural society, I come from a creative family with a father who was the singer in a Rock & Roll band. He was also a painter and photographer. My mother created and sold just about anything to do with flowers. I work 36 hours a week as a salesman of building materials. Photography is my passion because I love to set the alarm for 4 o'clock and then drive for an hour to get to Rotterdam and then try to catch the first sunlight or photograph the Zaanse Schans with the mist and the rising sun. Feel the thrill of what I see. I always try to play with light. It is street and landscape photography that gives me the most satisfaction.

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#30

Cover by Michael Kennedy / 72 pages

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Let’s be honest.

We may regret that occasional excess of alcohol, but we’re not some junkie, drugged, pitiful stupor in doorway.

We may feel we’re getting on in years, but we’re not confined to the loneliness of an old people’s home.

We may resent the daily grind of work at times but we’re not compelled to drag our families into health threatening work for a pittance we can barely live on.

We may even bemoan our daily tribulations but the trials we face are as nothing compared to the horrors of civil war, prolonged and life shattering .

Keef Charles

In loving memory of Julie Atchison and Ko Soe Naing

Anne Launcelott was born in Nottingham, England and immigrated to Ottawa, Canada with her family at the age of 3. Halifax, Nova Scotia has been home for over 30 years. For over 25 years, Anne worked mainly in black & white and set up a darkroom to develop and print her own work. Since 2005, she has made colour photography the main focus of her artistic expression after being introduced to Miksang contemplative photography by its developer and teacher Michael Wood. Anne has had numerous successful solo and group exhibitions and has had photographs chosen for publication. In November 2012, she was elected to the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) and in 2015 her B&W photograph, "Face at Window", Havana, Cuba was chosen Best of Show for the SCA's National Open Juried Online Exhibition.

João Coelho: My documentary photography is based in Angola, the country where I was born and to where I returned after an absence of over 30 years. Although the passion for photography has existed for many years, it only truly began to take shape from 2019, with a strong drive and motivation to tell the life and work stories of the people around me who are unknown to some and ignored by many. The human condition has always fascinated me and its study has been the main driver in my work. More than an aesthetic purpose, I intend my photography to trigger feelings, emotions, and convey messages, telling stories that depict suffering or joy, despair or mutual help, strength or disappointment, or simply the resilience of human beings in the face of the greatest adversities and the deepest doubts about their future. These are stories that need to be told and known!

Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and founder and former executive director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes over 39 years at various colleges, universities and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. For two decades, Julia concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past 11 years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. Julia's work has been published in many magazines, blogs, and books. Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska, and is the author/photographer of the award-winning children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. https://juliadean.com/

Margot Muir: I am a mature documentary photographer. I refer to W Eugene Smith’s quote “…and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future – causing them caution and remembrance and realization.”My lens expresses a love of life and celebrates the individual. And, at once, questions the status quo. I am a strong advocate for equal rights and have always been an activist for social justice, the rights of the vulnerable and black empowerment in South Africa. My work gives space for each individual to assert themselves and their presence in the world. https://www.margotmuir.com/

Ribhu Chatterjee: I am a final year student of Masters in Mass Communication and an aspiring photo/video journalist. Telling about a specific genre, I have tried to put my hands more on documentary photography. I have been covering stories by myself on various topics, related to the social, culture, tradition, the lifestyle of people from last 2 years. Since I like to travel so it is an added advantage for me to do the work. I like to document people, places, and traditions that can provide a unique story. Every people has a story to tell and I want them to do that through my picture.

Shimi Cohen 50 years old, based in Israel. I live in Kibbutz Givat Brener. Photography has been an important part of my life for the last five years. I roamed the streets taking photographs and developed my skills as a street photographer. Photography gives me a different way to observe the world. 18mm is the way to see the wide of the universe, 35mm is the way to see the life of the human. To take photos is my true love and passion and I strive to use my photos to tell a story. I am inspired by the life rhythms & constant flow of everything around me. I aim to expose the emotional side of human beings in the city streets, pushing the final image into a story. These days I concentrate most on documentary photography in series.