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100 Contemporary Women Street Photographers Redefining the Genre By Miss Rosen on March 7, 2021 Gulnara Samoilova, ‘Cloud Eaters’, 2018 © Gulnara Samoilova Birka Wiedmaier, ‘Untitled’, 2019 © Birka Wiedmaier Growing up in Ufa, the capital of the republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, Gulnara Samoilova fell in love with photography at the age of 15, and quickly discovered it was a means to escape the extremely patriarchal society in which she had been raised. She arrived in the United States in 1992, where she worked at the Associated Press, going on to win first prize in the World Press...

Both titles offer comprehensive and refreshing additions to the tradition of street photography. In Perfect Strangers, O’Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of New York. Meanwhile, Samoilova’s new book showcases one hundred contemporary women street photographers working around the world today, their photographs accompanied by personal statements about their work. In turns intimate and candid, the photographs featured in Women Street Photograp...