What we’re about
Sydney Street Photographers aim to promote street photography and cultural engagement through practice and discussion.
This group is all about engaging intimately with the world around you in an attempt to capture the unfamiliar in the familiar, to find the unseen in the mundane.
It's about getting out onto the streets with equally passionate people and creating an invaluable social network, to improve your photography skills, without possibly feeling awkward or intimidated by the environment/ subjects.
If you like the sound of street photography then join up, it's going to be rewarding, and best of all, fun walking the streets of Sydney with camera in hand, and enjoying a nice coffee after an event to ask those question you have always wanted to ask a fellow photographer.
Assistant Organisers can organise Meetups and members can suggest Meetups that will occur if sufficient members would like to attend. Infrequently there is a clash of events and members have a choice of which event to attend. SSP prefer to provide a variety of opportunities to shoot rather than limit the choice to the first available event.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- SSP Thursday - Love Your Nature or Macro in the ParkThe Calyx, Sydney
Please note: event will take place rain or shine. If it is raining there are enough interesting things in the Calyx's exhibition to take photos of. Please read the documents in the links below for an introduction to macro photography:
Introduction to macro photography
Everything you wanted to now about macro photographyToday we will take some close up images of plants and hopefully some six or eight legged critters in the gardens near The Calyx at The Royal Botanical Gardens. There is an exhibition called Love Your Nature which is under cover. We will start there.
Pls bring a gold coin or a small note for entry.
We will then go into the garden for more photographyWhat to Bring:
- Either mobile phone with attachable macro lens or DSLR camera, macro lens or for your standard lens, extension tubes or diopter “filter” for the front of your lens,
- Tripod & quick release plate
- Optional flash & diffuser,
- flower clamp,
- knee pad,
- sheet of a4 paper for reflector
Challenge: fill the frame
- SSP SATURDAY - Discover World Press Photo Exhibition 2024Library Cafe, Sydney, NS
Please only RSVP if you can attend, a limited number of tickets have been booked.
1:30pm meet to coffee at the Library Cafe
1:50pm walk to The Library Auditorium, Lower Ground 1, Macquarie St Building (I will have your tickets ready for scanning)
2:00pm World Press Photo Exhibition talk by Anastasia Taylor-Lind
3:00pm Explore the World Press Photo Exhibition in the library's galleries.
4:00pm optional drinks/snacks at The Library Rooftop Bar MenuTo mark the opening of the 2024 World Press Photo Exhibition at the State Library of NSW, we will discover the stories behind the photo contest and the winning photographs. This is a special talk with Jury Chair for Europe, Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Following Anastasia’s talk, we will explore the World Press Photo Exhibition in the Library’s Galleries, where we can hear more about the stories behind the photos and why they are important.
Supported by FUJIFILM Australia.This internationally touring exhibition showcases the winners of the 2024 Contest, whose works are some of the best photojournalism and documentary photography in the world.
The awarded photographs were selected from 61,062 entries by 3,851 photographers from 130 countries. They were judged first by six regional juries, and the winners were then chosen by a global jury.
Among this year’s winners are two Australian photographers: Eddie Jim who won the Southeast Asia and Oceania, Singles category for the Fighting, Not Sinking – a moving portrait of a grandfather in Fiji resolutely holding his grandson while chest deep in a rising ocean, and Aletheia Casey who won the Southeast Asia and Oceania, Open Format for A Lost Place – a striking series of images reflecting the frustration and horror of the 2019-2020 NSW wildfires.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a photojournalist who has been reporting on women, war and violence for the last 20 years. She is a National Geographic Society Explorer, a TED fellow and a 2016 Harvard Nieman fellow. Anastasia has been photographing the war in Ukraine since it started in 2014. An overview of this work was exhibited at Imperial War Museums in the UK in 2022.
Her monograph Maidan: Portraits from the Black Square documented the Revolution of Dignity and was published by GOST books in 2014. Her first poetry collection One Language was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. Anastasia holds master's degrees in Documentary Photography and Poetry. She is the 2024 World Press Photo Contest Europe jury chair.
Cheers
JuneText and image from State Library NSW website