ISP MAGAZINE 02/03 2022

International Street

Photography and Reportage

MAGAZINE 02&03/2022

Valentina D‘Amato

Photo: Mou Aysha Siddiqua

Uwe Schröder

The Publishers’ Selection

Mauro Vitale & Olivier Schram

Congratulations to the winners

of the #portraitContest!!

of the #portrait

Christin Dim Mario Barrela Prabir Roy

Cover Photo by: Ivan Lawrence White

Photo: Partha Mukhopadhyay

Salvatore Da Cha

Photo: Cesare Salvadeo

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Ivan Lawrence White

The picture was taken in 2015 in Malawi. I lived there for 3 years and was lucky

enough to dive in community life in rural areas. This picture portraits a father and

his two sons in a stone house built in the early 20th century by first missionaries.

International Street

Photography and Reportage

MAGAZINE 02&03/2022

IVAN LAWRENCE WHITE. GERSHON GILAT. THIAMSENG YIP. GIUSEPPE MARCANTONIO.

UWE SCHRÖDER. MIKAEL CARLSSON. MAURO VITALE. SYLVAIN SESTER. SANJOY MON-

DAL. ARNE STØVSET GJONE. EMIR BOZKURT. KERRY FAULKNER. MAREK TONDRYK. OLI-

VIER SCHRAM. KUNTAL BISWAS. HNG THU PHM. PRANAY KANTAL. ARGHA KAMAL

KUNDU. TOMÁŠ HORÁK. BI-JIUN CHEN. PAUL GREENWOOD. L. ABIGAIL CHUA. VALEN-

TINA D’AMATO. VERA VAN DER WAL. MICHAEL SHTERN. LAWRENCE CHEUNG. PRABIR

ROY. MASSIMO LANTERI. SUNGPIL JUNG. SYLVAIN SESTER. ROSS ANGELO YACAPIN.

PAULINE REN. PARTHA MUKHOPADHYAY. YUZO FUJII. ROBERTO PANICHELLI. ADOLFO

CARLI. NADIA EECKHOUT. OTTAVIO CARTA. ATILLA GÖREN. PRANAY KANTAL. DEBABRATA

DEY. NESTA MARLEY. DEDE PICKERING. DHIRAJ GOSWAMI. ZUZANA ZAJACOVA. OTTAVIO

CARTA. BREGA GIULIO. CESARE SALVADEO. PANAGIOTIS GIANNAKIS. MOYNUL HOSSAIN.

GILLES DALIGAND. MATTIA FERRARI. MINH CHAU NGO. METIN YENER. MICHAEL WIRTH.

REINE CLAUDE PRALUS. SAYAN BOSE. SHADAB ISHTIYAK. SAM BENARI. LEFTERIS ARS-

LANOGLOU. CHRISTIN DIM. MARIO BARRELA. CHRISTIAN KLEIN. ROBERTO PANICHEL-

LI. MOU AYSHA SIDDIQUA. BERTRAND DOREL. CHANEL KOEHL. LIOR FAUST. NGHIA

NGUYEN CHINH. NESTA MARLEY. PELÉ TOYBOU. CAROLINE PREECE. MATEO CANDIA.

MEENO ZEN. RADANA KUCHAŘOVÁ. SUBHANKAR SAHA. YI-TANG WANG. ERIK HOESEN

Thank you very much for the contribution of the authors!

INTERNATIONAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AND REPORTAGE

COLLABORATORS

UWE SCHRÖDER (PUBLISHER & GRAPHIC DESIGN) • VALENTINA D‘AMATO (COPYWRITER & PHOTO EDITOR)

• SALVATORE DA CHA (ISP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER) • AURÉLIEN BOMY (CO-EDITOR) • TROELS BÖYE (CO-EDITOR)

SVEN HARKER (CO-EDITOR) • TRUNG MAI (CO-EDITOR) • BABAJIDE O OLUSANYA (CO-EDITOR) • SALVATORE FIUME

(CO-EDITOR) • GIUSEPPE MARCANTONIO • RICCARDO PINZONE • E-MAIL ISPANDREPORTAGE@GMAIL.COM


Gershon Gilat

ThiamSeng Yip

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Giuseppe Marcantonio


Uwe Schröder

Mikael Carlsson


Selection of the publisher:

Travelling around man

with Mauro Vitale.

By Valentina Damato

May be the reason why we enjoy street photography

so much is because when we photograph

other people, we show our delight and

appreciation of interacting with other human

beings. With a humanistic approach and a

dignified glympse of different realities, the

extremly talented Italian photographer Mauro

Vitale, finds the right balance of empathy

and documentation with a significant creative

slant. He connects succesfully with the viewer

in a powerful level, capturing brilliantly the

human emotions, taking us with him in a fascinating

trip of discovery around man.

Selection of the publisher

Interview with

Mauro Vitale by Valentina D‘Amato

How did you get started with street photography?

I worked for nearly 30 years for the Ministry of Culture,

initially dealing with photogrammetry and aerial photogrammetry.

This first phase allowed me to travel a lot and meet

different cultures. Gradually, the interest in etnographic

research became stronger and the Ministry supported me in

carrying out different projects. The center of my photographic

research has always been the man, or rather the human being

always in the foreground in my images, despite the diversity

of approaches, sensibilities, styles. Man is the fundamental

element that is reached when the excavation deepens and

touches strata that go beyond the surface, where the image

is materially formed, reaching the space of what remains of

the gaze after the gaze.

2.How it was to get in touch through photography with such

different cultures?

These photographic researches within the most varied cultures

portray more or less evident mutations apparently dissonant,

but characterized by a strong element of cohesion: each

of these enclaves expresses in a profound way the knowledge

and the world it bears. Rispect is the indispensable element

to bring cultures that are sometimes only apparently different,

this respect, if perceived as authentic, can cancel any

hostility or difference.

3.What do you do to stay motivated and not lose your passion

for photography?

Unfortunately I must admit that the pandemic has slowed

down my research a lot, but as for all things, sooner or later

it will end, and I hope as soon as possible to take up again

photographing with the incentive of being able to find an

inevitably changed world, who knows if for good or bad.

Selection of the publisher

Interview with

Mauro Vitale by Valentina D‘Amato

4.Where can we see your work.

I have exposed my work in:

• Rome (Museo delle civilita e etnografico Luigi Pigorini)

„Archeofest“

• Matera (Capitale europea della cultura 2019)“Popoli e terre

della lana“

• Theran (Namu Gallery of Artists) „Peoples and lands of

wool“

• London ( Italian Cultural Institute London)

Atri (Rassegna d‘arte e cultura contemporanea Stills of Peace)

• Chieti (National Archeologic Museum) „Percorsi di Uomini,

Percorsi di Fede“

• Franca Villa al Mare, museo MuMI „Chi“

• Aurum di Pescara“Simballo“

• Ascoli Piceno ( Frida Art Academy) „Travel Around Man“


Mauro Vitale


Mauro Vitale

Mauro Vitale



Mauro Vitale

Mauro Vitale



Mauro Vitale

Mauro Vitale



Mauro Vitale



Mauro Vitale



Mauro Vitale


Sylvain Sester

Sanjoy Mondal



Arne Støvset Gjone

Emir BOZKURT


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Kerry Faulkner

Marek Tondryk




with Olivier Schram.

By Aurélien Bomy

Aluminium factory, Ambatolampy, Madagascar 2011


The synagogue keeper, Cochin, India 2009




Aurélien Bomy:

Olivier Schram, an experimented and talented travel photographer

shares with us his taste and passion for cultural and

human diversity. His photographic work is a strong testimony

of how encounters with the unknown and the difference

can be a precise way , in photography, to transmit the

preciousness of social link in human lifes .

Hi Olivier, would you tell us something about you and your

photographic work? How did you get into travel photography?

As I was about 14 years old, my grandfather was the very first

person who introduced me to photography. He wasn’t such

a talented photographer himself but very good at explaining

how a camera works, the fundamental concepts of shutter

speed, lens aperture, depth of field, etc. The first pictures

I took were simply about daily life and landscapes in the

lovely little Provence village (south of France) where he lived

with my grandmother and where I used to spend most of my

school holidays. By the past and still nowadays, Provence

lights, luminosity and colors have had a great influence on

many painters. I must admit that the emerging young amateur

photographer I was at that time has been influenced

and forever conditioned by the importance of light quality for

taking good pictures.

Would you say that you’re taking pictures for memory? Or

for testimony?

When I started, for sure, I mainly took pictures for the memory,

as for keeping a remembrance and virtual part of the

treasures, beauties and encounters I was discovering during

my journeys. But year after year, as I got more interested by

the social reality and physical diversity of our world, the trend

to take pictures for testimony became stronger.

Would you say that your work is a curiosity or an interest for

the difference?

Yes, as I have travelled and still travel a lot, in various countries

and continents, the curiosity for what is different is quite

and evidence for me. It is even a kind of fuel. But as a photographer,

you can observe the difference on various fields… As

far as I am concerned, the aspects of social life, observation

of trades that have disappeared in western countries or of


Kyoto tradition, Japan 2017




festive and religious customs as well as urban bustle are my

main centers of interest.

Do you have an anecdote or a story that marked you about

one of your photography?

During summer 1988, I went to northern Pakistan for a fabulous

one-month trip. In the stunning valley of Hunza, while hiking

and meeting some local village people, I took the portrait of

Zafarullah, a 2-year-old child, with the Canon AE-1 camera I

possessed at that time. Almost 30 years later, once it had been

scanned, I posted this portrait on my online gallery. A few

months later, I was contacted by Zafarullah himself through

my Facebook page. He had recognized himself through his online

baby portrait… He had no personal photography at all as a

remembrance of his youth and so kindly asked me if he could

download his own portrait. We both have been very moved by

this “reunion” so many years later. Since that day we keep in

touch through FB and each of us is hoping that one day, we’ll

meet together again in his beautiful Hunza valley where he is

still living and working nowadays as a small tourism agency

owner.

Where can we find more of your work?

“Travelling Moods”, my personal website: https://www.olivierschram.photography/

On Instagram: @olivier_schram

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olivier.schram.2/

Also, I have plans to publish a book dedicated to some of my

great travel emotions and encounters captured over the years

through the lens of my camera. Each image in front of its story…

Is there something more you would like to tell us?

Because of the pandemic, like many other photographers, I

have suffered during those last two years not to be able to travel

abroad. I have taken advantage of this period for launching

“Travelling Moods”, my brand-new website dedicated to travel

photography. But I have one main dream in mind now, being on

the road again!

Thank you Olivier for sharing your beautiful work with us!


Oliver Schram

The phone call, Viñales, Cuba 2006


Squid fisher at sunrise, Hoi An, Vietnam 1993


At the barber’s, Agra, India 2019

Oliver Schram


Afternoon break, Warsaw, Poland 2015


Soda seller, New Delhi, India 1986

Oliver Schram

Fishermen on stilts, Welligama, Sri Lanka 2016


Living in the street, Chennai, India 2009


Spinning the prayer wheel, Lamayuru, Ladakh 1986


Rainbow man, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2013

Oliver Schram


The pottery bazaar, Peshawar, Pakistan 1988

Oliver Schram


Oliver Schram

Cuban melancholy, Santa Clara, Cuba 2006


Kuntal Biswas

Kuntal Biswas



Hồng Thu Phạm

Pranay Kantal



Albania

Uwe Schröder

A country where

the Mercedes Benz

is a status symbol, but the

people has have no work or future.

In the middle of Europe.

Albania | Selenica is a small town in southern Albania, about 15

kilometres as the crow flies northeast of Vlora. The town has

2235 inhabitants. The local authorities give a much higher figure

of about 7650 inhabitants. Selenica belongs to the Vlora Qark.

It is at the end of a road, a dead end - of life too perhaps? So it

seems to me, also an end without a future for that generation?

The town, the houses are in a terrible state, is there hope for

the children here? Albania is a developing country in the middle

of Europe. The civil war was not long ago, triggered by a lottery.

The lottery took the money out of the Albanians‘ pockets until

there was an uprising. The UN had to ensure peace and quiet.

The government was bogged down.


Uwe Schröder


Uwe Schröder


Argha Kamal Kundu

Tomáš Horák



Bi-jiun Chen


Paul Greenwood

Havana, Cuba. These painters caught my eye, not only because of how

their blue overalls matched the blue of the Hotel Telegrafo, but also of

how they were precariously, yet confidently, hanging three storeys high

on nothing more than a rope and a short plank of wood!


L. Abigail Chua

Mikael Carlsson



Valentina D‘Amato

The Golden Pier

When I remember some episode of my girlhood, it was always summer.

At that time, I used to feel that winter was endless but summer was

gone in a flash. This summer I returned to the pier facing the island,

where I used to go when I was a girl, a place witness from trivial conversations

to amusing and romantic stories.

It is the golden hour and I feel to be walking out onto a golden path.

The girl, also made of gold, is coming with a look full of future, overwhelmed

by the wonderful sunset, while a group of boys are laughing

and jumping into the sea, from the pier. With such scene is impossible

not to feel I am in some enchanted Neverland or timeless Tom Sawyer

story. Even the island from the distance seems almost a mirage. While

I am writing these lines, the lively ambient summer sound is fading

away. My winter is next and I know I will miss the golden pier.

Valentina D‘Amato



Valentina D‘Amato

Valentina D‘Amato



Vera van der Wal


Michael Shtern

Lawrence Cheung



Prabir Roy

Massimo Lanteri



SUNGPIL JUNG

Sylvain Sester



Ross Angelo Yacapin

Pauline Ren



Partha Mukhopadhyay


Yuzo Fujii

Sanjoy Mondal



Roberto Panichelli

Adolfo Carli



Nadia Eeckhout

Prabir Roy



Ottavio Carta

Atilla Gören



Pranay Kantal


Debabrata Dey

Nesta Marley



Dede Pickering

DHIRAJ GOSWAMI



Zuzana Zajacova

Ottavio Carta



Giulio Brega

Cesare Salvadeo



Marek Tondryk

Panagiotis Giannakis



Moynul Hossain

Ivan Lawrence White



Gilles Daligand

Mattia Ferrari



Minh Chau Ngo

Metin Yener



Michael Wirth

Reine Claude Pralus



Sayan Bose

Shadab Ishtiyak



Sam Benari

Tanjilal Hamadi Sharnob

Lefteris Arslanoglou



International Street Photography and Reportage Contest

CONTEST

#portrait

series (4 photos b/w or colour) max 2 series per member

START 05. February 2022 | END 12. February 2022

Fotos: Andrzej Walkusz

Uwe Schröder: I would like to thank all the

photographers who took part in this contest.

So many wonderful photos were submitted for

the theme, #portrait, that the admin team had

a very difficult task in choosing.

Here are the winners!

Christin Dim



Prabir Roy

Mario Barrela



Pauline Ren

Christian Klein



Roberto Panichelli

Roberto Panichelli



Mou Aysha Siddiqua


Bertrand Dorel

Chanel Koehl



Lior Faust

Ottavio Carta



Sylvain Sester

Nghia Nguyen Chinh



Giulio Brega

Nesta Marley



Pelé Toybou

Caroline Preece



Mateo Candia


Meeno Zen

Radana Kuchařová



Yuzo Fuji

Subhankar Saha



Yi-Tang Wang

Tomáš Horák


Erik Hoesen



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