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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Amazônia

By Sebastião Salgado

Publisher : Taschen

2021 | 528 pages

Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there - an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.

In the book's foreword Salgado writes: "For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world's largest single natural laboratory."

Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes that exist in small communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world. He documented the daily life of the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo'é, the Kuikuro, the Waurá, the Kamayurá, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awá, and the Macuxi - their warm family bonds, their hunting and fishing, the manner in which they prepare and share meals, their marvelous talent for painting their faces and bodies, the significance of their shamans, and their dances and rituals.

Sebastião Salgado has dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of Brazil's Amazon region: "My wish, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion I possess, is that in 50 years' time this book will not resemble a record of a lost world. Amazônia must live on."Soon available in a Collector's Edition including a bookstand designed by Renzo Piano and four Art Editions, each including the Renzo Piano bookstand and a signed print.

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The Day May Break

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2021 | 168 pages

Photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, The Day May Break is the first part of a global series by acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt, portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in these photographs were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be rewilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame. The fog on location is the unifying visual motif, conveying the sense of an ever-increasing limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. However, despite their respective losses, these people and animals have survived, and therein lies possibility and hope.

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Street Portraits

By Dawoud Bey

Publisher : MACK

2021 | 144 pages

From 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative, he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self presentation and performance in the streets of the urban environment. As part of every encounter, Bey gave each person a small black-and-white Polaroid print for themselves as a way of reciprocating and returning something to the people who had allowed him to make their portrait. Defying racial stereotypes, the resulting portraits reveal the Black subjects in all of their psychologically rich complexity, presenting themselves openly and intimately to the camera, the viewer, and the world.

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Please Please Return Polaroid

By Miles Aldridge

Publisher : Steidl

2022 | 208 pages

A new installment in Miles Aldridge's ongoing homage to, and plea for the revival of, Polaroid film

The sequel to Miles Aldridge's (born 1964) Please Return Polaroid (2016), this book presents new and vintage Polaroids from the British photographer's more than 20-year archive, in a seemingly random sequence shaped by a dreamlike logic and surprising juxtapositions.

Please Please Return Polaroid explores Aldridge's dedication to analogue processes where cut-and-paste is still a manual process, made with scissors, gaffer tape, intuition and not a little patience. Aldridge continues to use Polaroids as part of his work-in-progress “sketches,” often scratching, tearing and taping them together, even drawing over them; each mark part of the creative act.

Known for creating immaculate photos of a less than perfect world, Aldridge revels in these unpolished images, transforming some into extreme enlargements filling double pages with their reworked and damaged surfaces.

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