“Camera Obscura,” they called it—a “dark chamber.” Photography is not only a tool that navigates through time, but also through space and its ownership. It condenses public matter into a private viewfinder, revealing hidden corners and exposing them through image.
This issue, co-curated with Alysée Yin Chen, looks at how street photographers move fluidly between the documentary foundation of realism and the blurred boundaries of intimate storytelling within public scenes.
In STREET, the focus turns to how street photography challenges and redefines personal boundaries in shared space. When photographers capture unstaged moments, folding their subjects into private expositions, they and their cameras merge and separate fluidly: one leans into the mechanical device to archive public space, while the other engages the body—the flesh—to blur the boundary between public and private, at times becoming part of the scene themselves.