Photographers who capture the streets are, in a way, documenting an era: they document people, events, and the way life unfolds in real time. The street becomes a space where everything is visible; nothing is isolated — it is all happening at once, and the camera just catches fragments of it.

The photographers we are going to tell you about work differently, but they all stay close to reality. And they capture it in their own way. That reality can shift from place to place, from one city to another, but they manage to hold onto it and show it as it is.

Alhassan is a street photographer from Najaf, Iraq.

His images feel like a direct reaction to whatever is happening in front of him. Nothing looks staged or overthought — it is all about being present and catching things as they unfold.

He shows the city as it is: crowded, loud, full of very different people. There is no attempt to clean it up or make it aesthetic in a polished way.

Everything feels authentic and, in the best sense of the word, raw.

Feriel lives and works in Tunis.

She started her artistic journey in 2014 during a trip to Côte d’Ivoire, where she began photographing on a smartphone. Two years later, she started producing more professional work.

Her visual language is soft and poetic, built around light, textures, and space — mineral surfaces, vegetation, fabrics, as well as architecture and landscapes. There is a clear attention to how materials and volumes interact within a frame.

She describes her own work as “curating the dialogue between light, stone, and the sea” — and it is immediately visible. These three elements keep coming back, shaping the atmosphere of her images.

Héloïse is originally from France and is now based in Cairo.

Her work is shaped by her own experience — the places she has lived, the people she has met, the everyday situations she moves through. She keeps returning to themes like trust, friendship, love, and how these relationships shift over time, with all their complexity.

For her, photography works as a form of dialogue. The image isn’t just something to look at — it is meant to evoke a feeling, some kind of personal response. When that happens, the image has done its job.

Rita Kabalan is a Lebanese-American photojournalist based in Beirut, and her connection to the region clearly shapes how she approaches the city.

She doesn’t try to aestheticise the street. Instead, she stays grounded in what is actually happening. In her images, Beirut and other cities of Lebanon appear as places constantly shaped by people and events: protests, gatherings, movement, but also more fragile moments in between. You see how the street becomes a space of tension, negotiation, and everyday life at the same time.