Melissa O'Shaughnessy

07/13/23 • 61 min

Melissa O’Shaughnessy was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she studied journalism and art history. She took up photography after working as a book editor. She now lives and works in New York City.

Melissa’s work is full of colour, texture, movement. Her images capture a sense of calmness from the chaos that surrounds her on the streets.

Her work is included in Bystander: A History of Street Photography, and most recently Reclaim the Street: Street Photography Moment, and has been featured in an extensive number of local and international exhibitions.

In 2020, she published her first monograph, Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs.
She is a member of UP Photographers, a non-profit collective of 26 photographers from around the global

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Melissa’s work is full of colour, texture, movement. Her images capture a sense of calmness from the chaos that surrounds her on the streets.

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Don Stevie is a London-based “Street photographer”. His initial journey started when he had camera as a child which he used purely for fun. His photography came more to the fore in 2009 when he bought a little M8 digital camera.

Interestingly, Steve doesn’t see himself as a photographer and merely carries his camera to shoot and capture the things he sees while out walking inner city London.
His work is predominantly in colour, with a smattering of BNW images, that shows a keen eye for composition and a level of intricacy that has you going back to his images over and over again. He’s not shy in getting close to his subjects and is rather fond of using a flash to create movement and mystery within the images he creates.

In 2021, Steve exhibited at the Brick Lane Gallery and has been published in f8 magazine.

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