UPDATE: This post has been updated on the 25 of April 2025 since it was originally released on the 8th of June 2017. All non-active street photography collectives have been striken through and the links to their respective now inactive, neglected or irrelevant websites have been deactivated. In addition we have added new street photography collectives for your inspiration. The article text hasn’t been updated, it is in the original form. Only the list has been updated with the street photography collective information.
UPDATE: This post has been updated on the 6 of May 2025. I have added a few more collectives and removed the preview images as the post was becoming extremely long and not easy to read. In addition, I have greyed out all the non-active collectives.
UPDATE: This post has been updated on the 18 of June 2026. I have added Street Kollective formerly known as Pretoria Street Photography.
Introduction
Not so long ago Street Photography wasn’t as known as it is today. I remember when I used to tell my friends back in 2012 that my hobby is shooting street, they had no idea what I was talking about! And, when I explained, they thought it was weird and pervy. But things have changed since then. Things have changed a lot.
Thanks to the passion of a few individuals such as Eric Kim, Blake Andrews and Yanidel to name a few that constantly kept sharing their ideas and experiences about Street Photography through their blogs, the genre has now reached a new level of recognition.
It was not only the passion of the aforementioned individuals though that made Street Photography what it is today. In the past 20 years, Street Photography collectives have been appearing all over the web, spreading the genre’s gospel through their collective works and various Street Photography related interviews and articles. The first and most known of all the collectives is international street photography collective iN-PUBLiC. When iN-PUBLiC launched it inspired thousands and since then many collectives have sprung up. Amazing photographers from around the world have joined forces, sharing their works and attracting more and more people to this ever-growing genre of photography that is arguably one of the hardest, most enjoyable and definitely the most unpredictable of all genres.
Ever since I started getting hooked on Street Photography I have had an interest in Street Photography Collectives. Throughout the years of me searching the web for new Street Photography related posts, interviews and ideas I have discovered many collectives that have grabbed my attention. Anyone that knows me well knows that I like organising information, it is kind of like a thing I do, so I have made a list of bookmarks over the past years to make sure I don’t lose this valuable information. Now that this list has grown to a large size and it has started to mature – with very few changes in the past couple of months – I have decided that it is time to share it with you.
I will not be sharing all my links, because some of the collectives in my bookmarks don’t exist any more, such as the amazing APF Collective. Their website is dead and their last post on their FB page was in November 2016.
Anyway, here is my ever changing list of Street Photography Collectives, as it is today, the 8th of June 2017. I hope you find it interesting and inspiring.
Spyro’s ultimate list of Street Photography Collectives
Presented in alphabetical order
Berlin1020 Street Photography
Visit https://berlin1020.com/
Bulb
Visit http://www.bulbphotos.eu/
Burn My eye
Visit http://www.burnmyeye.org/
Chicago Street Photography Collective
Visit http://chicagostreetphotographycollective.com/
Cracow Street Collective
Visit https://cracowstreetcollective.tumblr.com/
Elephant Gun
Visit https://www.facebook.com/ElephantGunPhotoCollective/
EyeGoBananas
Visit http://eyegobananas.com/
f/50
Visit https://f50collective.com/
FJM Collective
Visit https://www.fjmcollective.com/
Flanares
Visit http://www.flanares.com/
Flanersi
Visit https://www.facebook.com/flanersi/
Fragment Photo Collective
Visit https://www.fragmentphotos.com/
Full Frontal Flash
Visit http://fullfrontalflash.com/
GreySkies
Visit http://greyskiescollective.com/
Hart Collective
Visit http://h-artcollective.com/
iN-PUBLiC
Visit http://in-public.com/
interCollective
Visit: https://www.instagram.com/intercollective/
Italian Street Eyes
Visit http://www.italianstreeteyes.com/
La Calle es Nuestra
Visit https://lacalleesnuestra.com/
Lightradi.us
Visit http://lightradi.us/
Little Box Collective
Visit https://www.instagram.com/littleboxcollective
Magna Collective
Visit http://www.magnacollective.com/home
Magnum Photos
Visit https://www.magnumphotos.com/
Malaysian Street Photographer Collective
Visit https://mspcollective.org/
Metro Collective
Visit http://www.metrocollective.org/html/
NYC Street Photography Collective
Visit https://www.nyc-spc.com/
Observe
Visit http://www.observecollective.com/
Optic Nerve
Visit http://www.opticnervecollective.com/
Photo Team Romania
Visit http://www.phototeam.ro/
Platea
Visit https://plateaphoto.wordpress.com/
Prague Street Photography
Visit https://www.praguestreetphotography.cz/
Pretoria Street Photography
Visit https://www.facebook.com/PretoriaStreetPhotography
Progressive Street
Visit https://www.progressive-street.com
Randagio
Visit http://collettivorandagio.blogspot.it/
Seconds2Real
Visit http://www.seconds2real.org/
Soul of Hamburg
Visit http://www.soulofhamburg.com/
SPi
Visit http://streetphotographyinternational.com/
Spontanea
Visit http://www.spontanea.org/?lang=en
Spyder Collective
Visit https://www.spydercollective.com/
Strange.RS
Visit http://www.strange.rs/
Street Kollective (formerly Pretoria Street Photography)
Visit https://www.facebook.com/StreetKollective & https://www.instagram.com/street_kollective/
Street Life Collective
Visit http://www.streetlifecollective.com/
Street Photo Thailand
Visit http://www.streetphotothailand.com/
Street Photography Collective
Visit https://www.streetphotocollective.com/
Street Photography London
Visit http://www.streetphotographylondon.co.uk/
Street Photography Luxembourg
Visit https://streetphoto.lu/
Street Soul Photography
Visit http://streetsoulphotography.com/
Streetical Collective
Visit https://www.instagram.com/streetical_collective/
Streets Ahead
Visit https://www.flickr.com/groups/streetsaheadtheappwhisperer/pool/
StreetSeen
Visit http://www.streetseen.org.uk/
Stroma
Visit http://stromaphoto.com/
Superluna
Visit https://superluna.org/
The 8 Street
Visit http://the8street.com/
The Street Collective
Visit http://www.thestreetcollective.com/
Tiny Collective
Visit http://tinycollective.com/
Tripod City
Visit http://www.tripodcity.co.uk/
Turkuaz Street
Visit http://www.turkuazstreet.com/
Un-Posed
Visit http://un-posed.com/
Vivo Photography Collective
Visit https://www.street-photographers.com/
Void Tokyo
Visit http://voidtokyo.media/
Closing
If you have your own collection of Street Photography Collectives that you would like to share, or any additions to make to my list, please feel free to share it in the comments below. The more collectives we can add to this page the better!
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57 thoughts on “Spyro’s ultimate list of Street Photography Collectives”
Thanks for the massive info. They sure can keep me busy.
You are welcome!
great list, thanks for sharing! Some I know:
Magna Collective:
http://www.magnacollective.com
Intercollective, no website, only Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/intercollective/
F50:
https://f50collective.com
Actually APF is a collective, too
and I would also put Void Tokyo here, too:
http://voidtokyo.media
Wow! Thanks Jacint. I will make sure to add them to the list!
One I’ve recently found is http://www.deadbeatclubpress.com/ although the website is to their published works, they are a group collective from California.
Not sure how much Street Photography London is a collective, I thought it was a one man operation but could be wrong.
Thanks for sharing George, however they class themselves as publishers. I looked through their facebook page and they seem to promote their books, so I will not include them.
I appreciate your suggestion though.
Another great post. Yes,There are a surprising number of people taking up this amazing craft. I can only think that digital photography has had something to do with this, catapulting the art of street photography into a New Renaissance. I feel certain that there will be some exciting times ahead for the craft, as technology continues to provide the means to make it simple and easy enough for everyone to enjoy. We are all photographers now and we are using anything from mobile phones to expensive rangefinder cameras to produce some amazing work. I’m very much a traditionalist with my own work when it comes to composition but I have seen some great images that pay no attention to such rules. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. The magic for me lies in the content of an image and not who or how a photograph was taken or with what camera or lens for that matter. Street photography is all about the passion for people and finding something interesting happening in mundane situations. That is where it begins and ends for me.
There are a few collectives still around that can easily be accessed on the Internet. Of course, Magnum is the greatest collective of all time and is often my landing point when I’m in the mood to browse images from the ‘greats’. Here is a new collective of photographers that might interest you. The site is French but there is an option to translate which isn’t bad. However, street photography has its own language that we all understand, so it isn’t really a problem. https://www.fragmentphotos.com/ Hope you like it.
Hello Keith and thank you for your lovely comment. Fragment Photos is already included in the list but thanks for recommending it. They are one of my favourites!
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Spyros, I don’t know where I’ve to send my -red- picture, can you help me?
Hello Sebastiano. All info is in the contest post at https://www.streethunters.net/blog/2017/06/04/may-2017-monthly-theme-contest-colour-red/. Just email us the photo at contact@streethunters.net but make sure to follow the guidelines.
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that’s a nice list here :) As a member of flanersi collective from Warsaw, Poland I would like to share a link to our works, enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/flanersi/
Hello Michal! Thank you for sharing your collective. I will make sure to add it to the list.
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great, thank you very much ;)
There’s one more Polish Street Photography Collective – flanersi.
https://www.facebook.com/flanersi/
Hello Karina!
Michal Czarnecki already suggested Flanersi! We will add it to our list very soon.
Thank you!
Inspiring list! Some great collectives on there with brilliant work. Not sure why Street Photography London is on there as it’s not a collective, just a one man band.
Thank you for your comment Miles!
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Hello, I’m a member of “La Calle es Nuestra” collective. Thanks for add us into the list. We are making a big effort to bring the street photography to the Spanish community!
You are most welcome David! Keep up the great work guys!
Hello Spyros,thanks for including Street soul photography in this fantastic list friend.We are working hard since 2013 for to share the street photography around the world.We are very happy!
Hello Jose!
Thank you for commenting. Glad you enjoyed the post.
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PhotoTeam from Romania
http://www.phototeam.ro/
https://www.facebook.com/PhotoTeamRomania/
That’s an intense list of strong street photo groups, thanks Spyros!
Have a look at recently teamed polish Streetical Collective please (https://www.instagram.com/streetical_collective/)
Cheers!
Hi Norbert, thank you for your comment and your suggestion.
Hi Norbert, thank you for your comment and your suggestion.
It’s still very young, but Madrid (Spain) has Urban Disorder as a photo collective:
– https://urbandisorderblog.wordpress.com/
– https://www.instagram.com/urbandisorderphoto/
Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
Nice list! We’re very small, but funny I found your post today because I’m looking to expand our group – Portland, Oregon based PDX Street – http://www.pdxstreet.com (former blog website).
ြFeatured Collectives : Myanmar Street Photographers Around The World
http://www.featuredcollectives.com/
https://www.facebook.com/featuredcollectives/
Hi Spyros, This is an Indian Street Photography Collective
http://in-street.com/
Thank you Suamalya. We will add it on the next update.
Hi Spyros, checkout this new italian collective: Collettivo Randagio.
Thanks for sharing!
Representing BULB Collective, a big thanks Spyros.
How could this list be complete without BULB!?
Stay Sharp & Keep Shooting Andrea!
Progressive-Street is a “gang” of international photographers, I’m proudly on of them:
http://www.progressive-street.com
Thank you, Spyros!
Top post there Spyros.
Efkaristo
Zeno
You are most welcome my friend!
Thanks mate!
https://stradafoto.wordpress.com/ of course you try to ignore this colective…or MIGNON from Padova. Congrats! :D
Please email us at contact@streethunters.net the collectives you think are missing and we will happily add them to our list.
Thank you
Hello.
In Italy the first collective, since 1995, is Mignon.
http://www.mignon.it
THANK YOU
Please email us at contact@streethunters.net the collectives you think are missing and we will happily add them to our list.
Thank you
Italian collective La Strada, street photography without frills
https://stradafoto.wordpress.com/ and collective historical for Italy Mignon http://www.mignon.it/
Please email us at contact@streethunters.net the collectives you think are missing and we will happily add them to our list.
Thank you
A damned fine collection. I could spend my days looking at each and everyone for inspiration. Photowalkers Taipei!
Thank you Keneth!
hi nice list Spyros
Thanks!
Hi Srypos,
Please add russian street photography resourse:
https://ru.gallery/
Thank you!
Dear Alex thank you for sharing your link, however this page is for 100% street photography collectives.
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Hi Spyros,
We run a street photography collective based in a very underserved part of the world: Washington, DC
We would be thrilled if you would add us to your list!
Hello Ryan,
Thank you very much for your comment and for sharing your collective. I received your email too :).
When I next update the post, I will be adding your collective to the list.
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Hello streethunters
I just discovered your website and I am amazed. Super happy to have found that list too – I have a suggestion for an addition. We founded the first street photography collective in Switzerland last year. A month ago we welcomed new members and since then we are 16 photographers. The name is swissstreetcollective and you find us under swissstreetcollective.com.
We would be very proud to appear you this list. Thank you for the opportunity.
Best regars
Bastian Peter
Hello Street Hunters
So great to browse through this list once more.
Pretoria Street Photography rebranded to Street Kollective. Would be honoured if you could update our name and details
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreetKollective
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/street_kollective/
Hello Emmanuel! Thank you so much for letting us know. We will make the required update asap.
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Emmanuel, the requested updtes have been made!