5.15.2016

Urban Landscape and Street Photography Inspiration

Street Photography

Damian Chrobak

Damian Chrobak is a contemporary Polish photographer.  Chrobak studied at the Academy of Warsaw, and later became the founder of Un-Posed street photography collective.  He moved to London in 2004, and has since then been capturing the city's street life. His work has been published in numerous countries, and he has also shot book and album covers.  Chrobak's work reveals the hidden meaning often found in everyday moments. His work is humorous, surprising and clever.

Lost and Found, 2011
Richard Koci Hernandez

Richard Koci Hernandez is a contemporary award wining video and multimedia producer, and worked as a photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury for 15 years.  His worked has appeared in Time, Wired, The New York Times, a National Geographic book and international magazines.  In 2008, Hernandez received a national Emmy award, in addition to the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award in 2003, and two Pultizer Prize nominations.  Hernandez is a San Francisco Sate University journalism graduate.  He later taught workshops at multiple universities and associations. Hernandez is now an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.  His work is both color and black and white, and is often textured and layered.

Marcin Plonka

Marcin Plonka is a contemporary documentary photographer and graphic designer based out of London.  He took up photography as a teenager, but stopped photographing for some time to study graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw.  He picked up photography again in 2010 and has since then been working on personal projects. His prints are high in contrast, dark, and provide insight into the lives of others.

Urban Landscape

William Klein
Historical