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Paola Franqui, known on Instagram as Monaris, is a Puerto Rican-born photographer specializing in street photography. Find out more!

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I’ve always been bothered by the term ‘Street Photography’. I don’t particularly like being referred to as a ‘street photographer’. I am a photographer. If I have to put an adjective in front of it, I’ve always favored ‘Documentary’ to ‘Street’. Today it occurred to me that the proper term shoul

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Today’s photo challenge is “half and half” so I chose a few pictures cut in the middle. I was spoiled for choice today. Above is a shop keeper having a smoke at her door-step. Berlin steps, outside the Bundestag building. Olafur Eliasson’s installation at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Reflection of a street off the rooftop of a parked car in Prague. The encounter of two groups of horsemen on “Sword Beach” in Normandy.

Russia-born photographer Nadia Sablin uses the medium to investigate “the relationship between documentary and fictional storytelling and explores the larger world through close personal narratives”. An example of this is _Together and Alone_ a poignant series she completed as a graduate thesis project while studying an MFA at Arizona State University. The result is a series of photographs that stunningly document life in a way that is familiar, but still leave you with a sense of something…

When we look at our everyday lives, the word glamorous probably wouldn’t come to mind for most of us. It certainly wouldn’t for my own. But, there is something absolutely beautiful in o…