I am deliberately avoiding the use of the word ‘street’ in the title of this list. The truth is that I have a problem with the word ‘street’, as it is used by many of those prowling the streets of any major city, to create images that fulfill criteria they feel are important. I think you may know what I mean! I didn’t feel that way when the book Street Photography Now was published in 2013, but since then, street photography has become a dominant, rather repetitive practice for many. Perhaps too many! Anyway, here is my list of those who use urban environments as their photographic playground and I think deserve to be checked-out. As always, the list is in no particular order. Before you ask, I have no idea what cameras they use…

Further reading
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/24/the-photography-canon-and-why-it-is-important-not-the-camera-brand/
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/25/the-unp-top-20-photographers-working-with-colour/
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/26/the-unp-top-20-landscape-photographers/
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/28/the-unp-top-20-wandering-photographers/
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/29/the-unp-top-20-portrait-photographers/
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/28/the-unp-top-20-fashion-photographers/

Trent Parke www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/trent-parke/

Fan Ho https://fanho-forgetmenot.com

Matt Stuart www.mattstuart.com

Robert Depardon www.instagram.com/rdepardon/?hl=en

Bruce Davidson www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/bruce-davidson/

Helen Levitt www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/helen-levitt

Roger Mayne www.rogermayne.com

Vivienne Maier www.vivianmaier.com

Henri Cartier Bresson www.henricartierbresson.org/en/

Jill Freedman www.jillfreedman.com/blog

Jamal Shabazz www.instagram.com/jamelshabazz/?hl=en

Daido Moriyama www.moriyamadaido.com

Brassai (Gyula Halasz) www.holdenluntz.com/artists/brassai-gyula-halasz/

Robert Doisneau www.robert-doisneau.com/en/robert-doisneau/portfolios/

Sabine Weiss www.holdenluntz.com/artists/sabine-weiss/

Ed Templeton https://ed-templeton.com

Bill Cunningham www.instagram.com/realbillcunningham/?hl=en

Maciej Dakowicz www.maciejdakowicz.com

Melissa O’Shaughnessy https://melissaoshaughnessy.com

Joe Greer www.ioe.photography

Dr.Grant Scott
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8 magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020) and Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, (Orphans Publishing 2024). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018.

© Grant Scott 2026

Image: Maciej Dakowicz