Matt Weber has been photographing New York City for more than 40 years, the city in which he was born. He was among New York's pioneering graffiti artists of the 1970s. He was an original member of the Soul Artists graffiti collective. Weber went by the tag MALTA before leaving graffiti behind at 18.

He went on to drive a New York City taxi. Bored by the monotony, he picked up a camera in 1984 and began documenting life through the driver's seat.

Weber used film to capture the city in all its nuance: the old Times Square triple-X theaters, lovers on the subway, street fights, the fall of the Twin Towers, and mermaids eating hot dogs in Coney Island. His photographs preserve the everyday moments and unique characters of a constantly changing New York.

Forty of Weber's photographs are held in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. His books include The Urban Prisoner (2004), Street Trip: Life in NYC (2019), Coney Island: Double Vision (2022), and New York City 1985 (2024).

His photographs have appeared in film and documentary projects involving Ken and Ric Burns, Spike Lee, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Weber is also the subject of Dan Wechsler's award-winning feature documentary More Than the Rainbow.

Recent exhibitions include Vanishing City, a collaboration with longtime friend Eric Haze at Atelier Jolie in New York, and Metropolis: Street Photography 1985–2025 in Sydney, Australia. His work was also featured in the landmark Beyond the Streets exhibition in Brooklyn in 2019. Through the digital era, he has found enormous amounts of support via 75k fans who grasp for his daily musings on Instagram.

Through his photographs, Weber has archived a city that otherwise exists only in people's fleeting memories.

Julie Hrudová (Prague, 1988) is a street and documentary photographer and photo editor based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her work explores the absurdities of everyday life in (mostly) urban environments.

Julie has collaborated with a wide range of publications and her photography has been exhibited in numerous shows, on an international scale. Her book Chasing Amsterdam, featuring her weekly photos of Amsterdam taken for Het Parool paper, was selected as one of the best Dutch photo books of 2022 by de Volkskrant. She currently continues to contribute weekly evening photos to this section. (Photo by Grant Walker)

Stephen Leslie is a London based writer and photographer. His work has been featured in Unseen London (Hoxton Mini Press, 2017) and Reclaim The Street (Thames & Hudson 2023) To date, Bump books have published 4 of his zines with another one forthcoming in 2027. He has also published two monographs combining his photographs with original stories, Sparks (2018) and Mostly False Reports (2024). He's planning on having another book out in 2027 but he's not telling anyone what that's about.

Karlynne Wintels is a street and documentary photographer based in the Netherlands. Her work captures street life through a strong use of geometry, contrast, light and shadow, finding unexpected and layered compositions and moments in ordinary surroundings. Her photographs have received international recognition, including in the IPA awards, the Siena Photo Awards, Re-Focus awards and second place in the singles category at the 2026 Dublin Street Photography Festival. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in publications and podcasts.

Anna Lisa Lohmann is an internationally awarded street photographer from Germany with a deep love for storytelling and vivid colours. For her street photography is High Alert Meditation. Always looking for the extra-ordinary within the ordinary. She strongly believes nothing staged could ever be as rich, wonderful and surprising as real life unfolding in front of your lens. Anna has been living for several years in London and is a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society. She was nominated for the British Photography Awards. Images of hers have been published in several magazines and books and exhibited around the globe. Anna loves to spread the joy for street photography through workshops and talks.

Susanne Bartels is a photographic artist and visual poet based in Munich. Inspired by the Surrealists, she finds wonder within the familiar. Her images inhabit the in-between: between intimacy and mystery, movement and stillness, the visible and the felt. Her approach blends observation and intuition. Her practice encompasses photobooks, long-term projects, and Ikigai., an ongoing photographic dialogue with Japanese photographer Kazutoshi Yamaguchi. Her work has received awards in international competitions and has been shown in solo and group exhibitions worldwide.

I was born in Songkhla Province in southern Thailand in 1974. I considered myself as a serious street photographer since 2011. My photos are usually taken in my hometown and sometime abroad.

I am a self-taught humanitarian and fine art photographer drawn to people and communities whose lives are often overlooked or misunderstood. Through my photographs, I explore how people live through hardship, find strength, and hold on to what matters to them.

My work begins with listening. I spend time getting to know the people I photograph, building trust and allowing their stories to unfold. These relationships are central to my work. I want my photographs to reflect the dignity, complexity, and humanity of each person, beyond the circumstances that may define them in the eyes of others.

Photography lets me challenge prejudice and bring attention to lives that too often go unseen. I look for moments of connection, beauty, and grace in everyday life, even when life is difficult. My hope is that viewers will look more closely, question their assumptions, and recognize something of themselves in the people they see.