The Striking Winning Images of AAP Magazine 15 Streets

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won AAP Magazine #15: Streets. They come from 12 different countries and 4 continents!

John Maloof wrote A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light and composition, impeccable timing, a populist or humanitarian outlook and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment.

The twenty-five winning photographers did just that and captured life in towns and cities around the world.

For this 15th edition of AAP Magazine, we were looking for the heart and soul of a society and its people. Whether photographed in the countryside, or in an urban setting, the images we chose reflect the diversity of the photographers background and approach to street photography. Thanks to their ability to grasp decisive moments, they allow us to become a spectator of their wanderings, a curious observer of people's behavior.

Selecting the winners was certainly not an easy task, but in the end we hope you will all enjoy this collection of weird and wonderful stolen moments.

The Winner of AAP Magazine 15 Streets is Francesco Gioia (UK) with his series 'Wake up in London'

Lady in Red in Green Park, London © Francesco Gioia

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The Second Place Winner is Paul Kessel (USA) with his series 'NYC Subways'

Q Train - A mother and her two daughters © Paul Kessel

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The Third Place Winner is Robert Virga (USA) with his series 'In the Street: A Humanist Landscape'

Broadway, New York, NY, 2015 © Robert Virga

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Anna Biret (France)

Lonely Boy from the series 'Touch me with your gaze' © Anna Biret

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Alice Christine Walker (USA)

Cherry Red from the series 'Viva Las Vegas' © Alice Christine Walker

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Robert Bonk (USA)

Waiter At Palazzo Biscari, Catania Sicily 2018 © Robert Bonk

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Alexandra Avlonitis (USA)

Red Balloon At Coney Island from the series 'The Beach' © Alexandra Avlonitis

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Mohammad Mohsenifar (Iran)

A muslim old man is passing in front of a grand graffiti with the words which reminds the Mashhad city holy shrine, Iran © Mohammad Mohsenifar

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Forrest Walker (USA)

Mumbai Legs - The illusion of a man's lone legs rest along Mumbai's Marine Drive under the morning sun. Mumbai, India © Forrest Walker

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Peter Devenyi (Canada)

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Alessandro Deluigi (Italy)

The yellow line from the series 'Points of view'© Alessandro Deluigi

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Masis Usenmez (France)

Vertigo I - In these street photography series I tried to give a feeling like vertigo with long exposure and camera shake. © Masis Usenmez

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Thomas Hackenberg (Germany)

Old-style photography. San Gimignano, Italy, 1991 from the series 'Take a walk on the humorous side of life' © Thomas Hackenberg

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Daniele Esposito (Belgium)

Le Pitch Pin © Daniele Esposito

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Shahar Tishler (Israël)

Untitled (Dov) from the series 'The People of Haifa' © Shahar Tishler

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Ivan Ferrer (Israël)

Balancing Act - This picture was taken on Lomé, the capital of the west African country Togo © Ivan Ferrer

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Giuseppe Cardoni (Italy)

Metropolitan Fragments © Giuseppe Cardoni

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Yago Daniel Ruiz Rizaldos (United Kingdom)

Crosshair © Yago Daniel Ruiz Rizaldos

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Sonia Costa (Italy)

Black mask - Girl travelling by tramway in Rome. Due to Covid-19 pandemic second waive masks have become compulsory in all Italian territory everywhere, indoor and outdoor. November 2020, Rome Italy © Sonia Costa

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Stephen Hoffman (USA)

Church services in the age of covid. In 2012 after huricaine Sandy this church was completely ruined and services had to be outside . Now we are again in the same position with Covid19 where services have to be held outside from the series 'Coney Island Beyond the boardwalk' © Stephen Hoffman

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Phil Duval (Australia)

Reflective crossing © Phil Duval

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Ignasi Raventos (Spain)

Eulalia, la belle © Ignasi Raventos

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Giedo van der Zwan (The Netherlands)

Dog & Company from the series 'Pier to Pier' © Giedo van der Zwan

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Michael Ruggiero (USA)

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Francesco Cremonese (Italy)

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Todd Hido: Intimate Distance, Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album

By Todd Hido

Publisher : Aperture

2025 | 320 pages

An expanded chronology charting Todd Hido's career, with ten years of new work.

Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing, and for his use of detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book's first publication, including breathtaking new images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan, where he brings both a familiar eye and an expansive new vision.

Though Hido has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work, this gathers his most iconic images, along with many unpublished works to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting ways. David Campany introduces the work and looks at the kind of cinematic spectatorship the work demands. And Katya Tylevich muses on the making of each of Hido's major monographs, "The photographs lead as far as human-made roads go. They reach the periphery of utility wires, footprints, and paths already taken." From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, from landscapes to nudes, from America and beyond, this midcareer collection reveals how his unique focus has developed and shifted over time, yet the tension between distance and intimacy remains.

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Stephen Shames: A Lifetime in Photography

By Stephen Shames

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2025 | 228 pages

The life’s work of one of the most important photojournalists of our time, covering major events in American history from the 1960s to present

Stephen Shames is an American photojournalist for more than five decades. In his award-winning photo essays, he draws attention to social issues such as child poverty and racism. During his career Shames authored numerous books, among others Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers and Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America. Kehrer Verlag is now publishing a comprehensive book containing many unpublished photos. Although Shames photographed many diverse subjects including presidents from Kennedy to Obama, activists and visionaries like Martin Luther King or Stephen Hawking, and people from countless cultures, there is a thread connecting his pictures: Shames’ photos of children and families focus on what tears us apart and binds us together: violence and abuse, but also love, hope, and transcendence. The images come from his heart and soul.

Ralph Gibson: Photographs 1960-2024

By Ralph Gibson

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 552 pages

Travelling widely, Ralph Gibson works primarily in inspired series, associated image reveries in both monochrome and colour, whose titles―The Somnambulist, Déjà-Vu, Days at Sea, and Chiaroscuro―underline the particular poetic sensibility that informs his work. Starting out in 1960 with Dorothea Lange, he made his way to New York in 1967 and was soon considered in the same light as the likes of Larry Clark and Diane Arbus. The photographs and series can of course speak for themselves. But for Gibson there is a philosophy at play behind the image, and in the included short texts he proposes his thesis. Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives―loyal to his Leica, Gibson ranges between genres and creates new categories of vision. He gets closer to things and meditates on them in a way that only the silence of the image can attempt.Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this book offers the fruit of more than six decades of image-making. From Gibson’s first photographs in San Francisco, Hollywood, and New York in the 1960s right up to the present day, this is the most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed photographer.

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Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004

By Richard Avedon

Publisher : Phaidon Press

2025 | 208 pages

An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers

For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the “avalanche of age,” dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.

Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Immortal is the first book to delve into Avedon’s unflinching representation of aging throughout his career.

This elegant hardcover volume features nearly 100 portraits of cultural luminaries, each printed in striking tritone, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp, Duke Ellington, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, and Stephen Sondheim, as well as one of Avedon’s last self-portraits. Texts by a star-studded cohort of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth, and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an under-represented element of Avedon’s practice.

Thoughtfully edited and beautifully produced, Immortal testifies emphatically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.

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