Meryl Meisler
Louis Stettner
Phil Penman
New York Visionaries
Louis Stettner
Meryl Meisler
Phil Penman
Feature Exhibition 2026
We are delighted to announce our feature exhibition and keynote talks for 2026 is called New York Visionaries. Special guests at the Dublin Street Photography Festival will be the Louis Stettner Estate, Meryl Meisler and Phil Penman. We will exhibit a curated selection of the outstanding work of these three iconic photographers from “the city that never sleeps”.
Workshops, exhibitions, photowalks and talks will make the 2026 festival the biggest yet
Our Featured Photographers
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Amy Horowitz
Amy Horowitz is a freelance photographer based in New York City. She studied photography at The International Center for Photography. Amy’s award -winning work has been exhibited domestically and internationally. While Amy’s primary body of work focuses on portraiture, she has created a portfolio of candid street photography as well.
Amy’s candid work reflects her sense of humor, humanity, and penchant for the unusual. She has come to expect the unexpected when walking the streets of New York City.
Amy has been photographing young adults in and around Washington Square Park for the past five years. Her debut photo book, “A Walk in the Park?” (150+ portraits ) explores the multiplicity of identities as it celebrates individuality, and freedom of expression.
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ANNA MOLNÁR
I live in Budapest, Hungary. As a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and a mother of seven children, I have spent much of my life studying and exploring the mysteries of the human body. The beauty and complexity of the world experienced through touch has always fascinated me, as has the world around us. I only started taking photos in my early fifties, as a hobby, but soon found the same passion in it that I did in my work, and it became an integral part of my life.
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Argus Paul Estabrook
I’m a Korean American street photographer living in the greater Seoul metro area. My practice combines documentary and fine art approaches to share personal narratives about Korean life. I hold an MFA in Studio Arts and am an alumnus of the Eddie Adams Workshop.
My work has been recognized by the Magnum Photography Awards, Sony World Photography Awards, LensCulture, the British Journal of Photography, and Aperture’s Summer Open: On Freedom. I’ve been selected four times as a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Artist.
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Bouwe Brouwer
Bouwe Brouwer (1977 - Sneek / The Netherlands): primary school teacher; studied fine arts; making books, zines and other special publications by hand since 1996. First as an illustrator, then as an internationally acclaimed writer of haiku and short stories, and since 2013 as a photographer. Starting of with simple xeroxed and stapled zines it quickly evolved in handbound hardcover books and portfolio’s in various shapes and sizes. Member of International photography collective UP.
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Bragdon Brothers
We were born in New England but spent our whole lives crossing back and forth across the
Atlantic. It was in Edinburgh that we discovered street photography. For the next decade or so we
shot that city’s streets as well as others in Europe, always searching for images that revealed an
underlying surreality beneath the surface of everyday life. Since then we have found ourselves
back in the US, documenting it as it stands at a darkly strange and uncertain juncture.
Website: www.bragdonbrothers.net
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Carina Hedlund
Carina Hedlund, Sweden – Dublin Pubs
Respect for others is important to Carina, both in her work as a social worker and in her photography. By chance, Carina ended up in Dublin in 2011. She appreciates Ireland’s beautiful landscapes, but it is the people who draw her back. While she is not a frequent pub-goer in Sweden, she has explored the pub culture in Ireland — experiencing everything from the calm atmosphere of friends meeting at lunchtime to nights filled with music and dancing. And her camera is always with her.
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Chris Harrison
Chris Harrison is a street photographer from Brighton, UK, who walks the streets without a plan, letting curiosity take the lead. He notices moments others might miss – humour, pathos, and the odd, unexpected mysteries that make life unpredictable. Photography is his way of seeing differently, a creative outlet alongside his work as a brand designer. His images have appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine, on ITV News, and been used by Penguin Random House. His first book, Sideshow, sold out and was collected in more than 25 countries. He has won over 20 international awards, exhibited in group shows from London to Sydney, and regularly leads workshops, judges competitions, and speaks at photography festivals.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisharrison_photo
Website: https://www.chrisharrison.co.uk
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Corna Fean
The Street Soup Finalist Exhibition 2025
Pure Street Finalist Exhibition 2025/26 Street Macadam Editors Pick 2025 Rroma Street Conclave Exhibition 2025
"I view street photography as an exploration of the city, using the urban environment as a canvas to document human connection. My work focuses on capturing candid, authentic moments, street portraits, and a visual interplay of glass reflections, where abstraction and reality merge to hone my eye for finding the hidden stories in everyday life." -
Dimpy Bhalotia
Dimpy Bhalotia is an award-winning photographer and creative director based in London and Mumbai. She is a leading inspiration in the photography world, celebrated for her unique perspective and originality in her photographs. Her work has been exhibited in over 15 countries, including her upcoming solo museum exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. With more than 24 global awards, Dimpy’s photographs are a celebration of voices behind the most groundbreaking and innovative photographic works of our time.
Website: https://www.dimpybhalotia.com/
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Dominika Piskorz
Dominika Piskorz was born in Poland, but has found her home in Ireland, where she lives now. She’s started photographing first landscapes, and recently streets, which allows her to slow down, to notice, and to capture the most intimate details of life.
She recently graduated from the Academy of Photography in Krakow, Poland. Since childhood, she has been deeply observant and naturally curious, easily taken over by the beauty of small things around her. This sense of wonder has stayed with her and is present now in her photography. She’s especially drawn to subject-driven photography.
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Forrest Walker
Forrest Walker is an American documentary and street photographer known for his fearless, candid approach and extreme dedication to capturing humanity worldwide. His Major City Project spans 130 cities across 88 countries—the most expansive and immersive candid photography work ever completed—shot over a decade on foot, walking over 20 kilometers daily without fixers or support. He’s ventured into both vibrant and overlooked areas, navigating danger, cultural barriers, and the unknown to document life as it unfolds. Through projects like Cross-Country, Urban Nomad, and his recently published book Populace, he explores urbanization and the human condition. Walker has earned over 50 international awards, been exhibited across all continents, and featured in major publications like The Guardian and Lfi Magazine.
Media links:
Instagram: @fdwalker www.instagram.com/fdwalker/
Website: www.fdwalker.com
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Linda Wisdom
London-based street photographer Linda Wisdom has been capturing the emotion and character of city life since 2009. Her work blends documentary observation with a cinematic sense of mood and composition, focusing on fleeting human moments—often overlooked and seen from unique perspectives—shaped by light, atmosphere and storytelling. Through instinct and timing, she transforms everyday urban scenes into intimate visual narratives that invite the viewer to feel the streets as much as see them.
https://www.instagram.com/lindawisdomphotography/
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Louis Stettner
Over the course of his eight-decade career, Louis Stettner created a singular approach to photographing everyday life. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Stettner began working as a photographer in the 1930s and served in the U.S. Army in World War II before moving to Paris in 1947. There, he studied at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques, became friends with the influential photographer Brassaï, and developed a unique point of view that melded the boldness of American street photography with the softer humanism more characteristic of his Paris contemporaries. For the rest of his life, he traveled between New York and Paris — his “two loves,” as he called them — constantly finding new inspiration in that geographical duality.
In 2025, a major retrospective titled The World of Louis Stettner (1922–2016), curated by Virginie Chardin, was held at the Espace Van Gogh during Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles.
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Marguerite O'Molloy
Marguerite O’Molloy is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland, who recently discovered a passion for street photography. With an MA in Curating from IADT, Dublin, Marguerite has over twenty years of experience as a museum curator, editor, and project manager, specializing in contemporary art collections and museums.
In 2024/2025 Marguerite was named the overall winner of Mobiography Photographer of the Year, a title she earned through unanimous selection by a panel of international judges. She also received silver in the Portraiture category and earned several honorable mentions.
Since taking up street photography in 2022, her photography has been exhibited in New York, Tehran, and Dublin.
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Meryl Meisler
Meryl Meisler was born in the Bronx, raised on Long Island. Inspired by her dad's family photos and Diane Arbus, she enrolled in a photo class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that set her path. She moved to New York in 1975 to study with Lisette Model—and has been in love with the city ever since. After years teaching art in NYC public schools, Meryl began sharing her vast archive of images—work full of a sense of place, humanity, human and a distinctly queer eye with a Jewish sense of humor. She is represented by CLAMP in NYC and Polka Galerie in Paris and continues to document the world with the same sharp curiosity.
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Missy Brinkmeyer
Missy has shown internationally in the US, EU, and UAE, as well as, and prominently in, Ireland. As an emerging artist she received the Curtain O’Donohue Emerging Artist award at the RHA Annual Exhibition in '24, following her solo exhibition Dublin in Black and White at the Central Bank of Ireland, supported by Dublin City Council, NEIC, and 5 Lamps Arts, in '23. Her solo exhibition ‘Seen’ in The LAB Gallery, December 4 to January 10 ‘26, has been supported by Dublin City Council Arts and curated by Dr Margarita Cappock. And Missy is currently in the shortlisted exhibition for the AIB Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland, which opened November ’25 and travels throughout ‘26.
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Phil Penman
The British-born, New York-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the ever-changing scene of New York City’s streets for more than 25 years. In his career as a news and magazine photographer, with a large body of work in such publications as The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, among others, he has photographed major public figures and historical events. In particular, his reportage following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has featured on NBC’s Today show, as well as on the BBC, History Channel, and Al Jazeera, and his images have been included in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s archives.
His work covering the pandemic lockdown in New York City has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress, whose collection holds work by such great Depression-era documentarians as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Besides showing at Leica galleries in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and London, Penman’s signature street photography has appeared in international exhibitions as far afield as Venice, Berlin, and Sydney.
He also tours the world teaching workshops on photography for Leica Akademie. He was recently named among the “52 Most Influential Street Photographers,” alongside such legends as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand. Penman’s books, "Street" published in 2019, and "New York Street Diaries" published in 2023 both became a best-sellers and were featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Rana Öztürk
Rana Öztürk is a preschool teacher and photographer based in Turkey. For over twelve years, she has been engaged in street and documentary photography, focusing on human stories and everyday life. She seeks to transform ordinary moments into aesthetic narratives while capturing the surprises of the street. Using light, shadow, color, and composition, she creates distinctive frames. Her photographs have been exhibited in various group shows and festivals in Turkey and abroad. She continues photographing passionately with an amateur spirit
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Sam Ferris
Born in Melbourne, Australia (1985), Sam Ferris holds an Honours degree in Arts from the University of New South Wales, where he received the Vice Chancellor’s Medal and an Australian Postgraduate Award. After moving to Sydney in 2008, he began his photographic practice in earnest, co-founding the Aussie Street Festival in 2018 and joining the Burn My Eye Collective in 2021.
Ferris’ work examines the emotional undercurrents of urban life through candid, unscripted moments. “In every spare, waking moment I have, I’m making photographs or thinking about them. I walk the streets intent on capturing images that reflect not just what I see, but what I feel.”
His photographs have been exhibited internationally and published widely, including in Reclaim the Street (Thames & Hudson, 2023), 100 Great Street Photographs (Prestel, 2017), Leica Fotografie International, The Guardian, and Photo Review.
In 2024, Ferris published his second photobook, Rain Rain Go, and held solo exhibitions in Sydney as part of Head On Photo Festival and in New York City at Contact Photo. He won the $10,000 City of Sydney Australian Life Prize (2023) and has been recognised by StreetFoto San Francisco, LensCulture, Trieste Photo Days, and the Head On Photo Festival. Named Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographer in 2019 (documentary/photojournalism), he has also judged the Australian Life Prize and been a finalist in the Moran, Olive Cotton, and Gomma Awards.
His first monograph, In Visible Light (2021), sold out after three printings. Ferris lives and works in Newtown, NSW.
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Sara Melhuish
I'm Sara Melhuish, a freelance Swedish street photographer residing in London with a passion for capturing images of day to day life.
I love making those ordinary daily moments extraordinary by utilising the light, contrast shadows and reflections and capturing those candid moments around us that makes life special. I never leave the house without the camera as you never know what you will come across.
My aim is to always capture the unique story that is unfolding there and then for my clients as well as in my private work. When behind the camera shooting, I look for the different aspects and frames mixed with the natural light and shadows to make the image unique.
Previous jobs have included advertising & marketing campaigns, lifestyle shoots, website contents, corporate shoots, weddings, portraits and commissioned artwork.
I’m currently working together with Going Digital London and are running Street Photography workshops/safaris and one to one Street Photography coaching, all of them with a focus of mindfulness and being in the moment.
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Seán Hillen
Seán Hillen, born in 1961 in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, is a renowned artist known for his photomontages, photography, and creative use of photographs. Growing up during the Troubles, Hillen was deeply influenced by the conflict, which shaped much of his early work. His parents gave him a camera as a teenager to steer him away from the violence, sparking his lifelong interest in photography.
Hillen studied at Belfast College of Art before continuing his education at the London College of Printing and the Slade School of Fine Art. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he created striking photomontages combining his own black-and-white photographs from Northern Ireland with other imagery, producing series such as "Newry Gagarin," "Londonewry," and the well-known "Irelantis," which blends Irish landscapes with surreal elements.
His work is held in major collections, including the Imperial War Museum in London and the National Gallery of Ireland, and he has received several Arts Council bursaries. Diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 2015, Hillen continues to innovate, recently working on new collage series. A documentary on his life, "Tomorrow is Saturday," won awards and was released on Netflix Europe in 2022.
Hillen lives and works in Dublin, maintaining a significant presence in contemporary Irish art through exhibitions, teaching, and publications.
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Stuart Paton
Raised in Scotland and now living in Italy.
I peddle lo-fi social comment laced with hi-fi personal neurosis. Photography is my way of out-running my demons and re-enchanting my world. Shooting in the shadow of an existential threat, I try to evoke our sense of psychic pain, disorientation and erosion of self. Capitalism's collateral roadkill in the age of post-truth and big data. The cracked mirror poetry of an ideological spell unraveling. Eschatological eye-candy. A blend of 'Guernica' and The Shangri-Las.
Website :
https://stuartpatonphoto.wixsite.com/stuartpatonphoto
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Tom Pitts
Tom is an award-winning photographer, and current Hasselblad Master, based in Cheltenham, UK. Tom first started street photography 3 years ago, after the end of the Covid pandemic, while he was living in London. He is a Pro Member of The Raw Society an international collective whose mission is to educate, promote, and create community, in street and documentary photography.
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Tuna Angel
I’m a photographer from Istanbul, capturing candid street moments using flash and snap focus to highlight raw emotions and gestures of people-not posed or staged. I use flash to create a unique aesthetic with details otherwise lost in ambient light. I believe photography is about the freedom in expressing my unique perspective and the decision moment that reflects a transcendent aesthetic. I also believe in a photographer’s mission to pass the spirit of the times—the zeitgeist—to future generations.