Antonio M. Rosario

Antonio M. Rosario is a professional photographer and filmmaker who shoots predominantly on the street, teaches street photography, and is one of the hosts of a popular photography podcast called Street Shots.

Following in the footsteps of his father, also a photographer, Rosario studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He began his career in the industry working as a photo editor for many years, before finally taking the plunge and quitting his day job to become a full-time photographer.

Born and raised in New York City, Rosario currently lives in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn with his wife and their feline Americans.

Amy Touchette

Amy Touchette explores themes of social connectedness through street portraiture. Trained at the International Center of Photography, she began her artistic career as a writer and painter.

Touchette’s latest monograph, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, was published by Schilt Publishing (Amsterdam) in 2021. Images from the series debuted at the National Portrait Gallery in London. One was made into a flag and flown at the Rockefeller Center rink as part of Aperture’s The Flag Project.

In addition to lectures and public talks, she teaches street portraiture in ICP’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program and Continuing Education program.

Touchette has written feature articles for PDN, Rangefinder, Emerging Photographer, and Digital Photo Pro magazines, tutorial articles on street photography for Envato Tuts+, and exhibition catalog essays.

Street Dailies is her ongoing series of candid street portraits released regularly on Instagram. Her most recent project is a poker-sized deck of playing cards celebrating New York City’s residents.

Christopher Cook

Christopher Cook is a New York–based artist, born and raised in Brooklyn. After a friend recommended the Canon AE-1, he began photographing his neighborhood. Cook has exhibited in galleries throughout New York State, from the Lower East Side to upstate Auburn. He was a 2020 AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2021, Valentine Museum of Art acquired 160 of his Black Lives Matter photographs. In February 2021, Cook’s solo exhibition at Brooklyn’s Welancora Gallery, Am I Next?, showcased his documentation of the Black Lives Matter movement (May–September 2020). In the summer of 2021, he finished an artist-in-residency at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, New York.

Melanie Hill

Melanie Hill (a.k.a. Kaleidoscope Lady) is a Brooklyn-based photographer and photo artist. Eight years ago, she began her journey with a Fujifilm point-and-shoot purchased from the Home Shopping Network.

The camera had become therapeutic, enhancing her thirst for exploring the city and providing a meditative way of escaping. She then entered an annual employee contest with one of the major hospitals in New York City — winning first place two years in a row.

Engaging with the public through a viewfinder opens her eyes and mind to refreshing points of view about human behaviors, which makes street photography her first choice in terms of genre. Having 40+ years of experience in art and fashion allows her to merge her interests, creating a niche which she calls, “photo-art.”

She speaks through the camera and the lens is her mic.

Phillip Moi-Thuk-Shung

Phillip Moi-Thuk-Shung found his passion for photography while working as an art director with world renowned photographers for the past 20+ years.

Shino Kitano

Shino Kitano is an artist and photojournalist. From her birthplace of Tokyo, Japan to Andalucia, Spain, New York City, and currently Portland, Oregon, she seeks to capture both the simple and complex. Her project We The People with Rico Washington has been added to the Smithsonian collection. Influenced by mentors Jamel Shabazz and Ruiko Yoshida, her work showcases an intimate approach to capturing subjects. Kitano uses photography to connect the beauty of the natural world with the equality of humanity. When she puts the camera down, she can be found tending to the soil to produce herbs for her love of cooking. She also enjoys illustrating the musings she comes across in the world.

Prospect Park Alliance

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the mid-19th century, Prospect Park is Brooklyn’s flagship park — welcoming more than 10 million visits each year.

Prospect Park Alliance is the non-profit organization that sustains “Brooklyn’s Backyard,” working in partnership with the city of New York. The Alliance was founded in 1987 to help restore the park after a long period of deterioration and decline. Today, the Alliance provides critical staff and resources that keep the park green and vibrant for the diverse communities that call Brooklyn home. The Alliance cares for the woodlands and natural areas, restores the park’s buildings and landscapes, creates innovative park destinations, and provides free or low-cost volunteer, education, and recreation programs.

Today, Prospect Park is an international model for the care of urban parks, and one of the premier green spaces in the United States.

https://www.prospectpark.org/

MPB

MPB transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade photo and video gear. As the largest global platform for used photography and videography equipment, MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro.

Founded by Matt Barker in 2011, MPB has always been committed to making gear more accessible and affordable, and helping to visualize a more sustainable future. MPB recirculates more than 485,000 used products every year, extending the life and creative potential of photo and video equipment for creators around the world.

Headquartered in the creative communities of Brooklyn, Brighton and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service.

Photoville

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