Ania Kłosek is a Polish documentary photographer. Since 2015 she has been working on a long-term projects documenting Ukraine. Over the years, she has returned regularly, building a sustained visual record of everyday life shaped by social change, and war. Her work focuses on ordinary moments and human presence, observing how individuals navigate uncertainty and transformation.

She began her photographic path in street photography, which shaped her visual language and narrative approach. The directness, attentiveness, and sensitivity developed on the street remain central to her documentary practice. She concentrateson the subtle relationships between people and their environment.

Kłosek is a recipient of the Grand Press Photo award and the Krzysztof Miller Award for Photojournalists (Poland), and the Slovak Press Photo award. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and internationally.

She has served as a juror in major international street photography competitions, including the Miami Street Photography Festival, London Street Photography Festival, Brussels Street Photography Festival, StreetPhoto San Francisco, Leica Street Photo and meny others.

She is a member of Women Photograph. She holds a degree in Intercultural Relations from the University of Warsaw and is currently continuing her studies at the Instituteof Creative Photography in Opava, Czechia.

“In this talk, I will share my journey as a photographer and how street photography led me into documentary work and storytelling. I will call this talk From Street to Documentary.”

The Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk (1956–2015) had his major breakthrough with Landet utom sig / Country Beside Itself in 1993. The project began as a magazine assignment about Sweden but gradually grew into something more—something truthful, though perhaps not particularly beautiful.

Tunbjörk traveled across the country, letting his flash illuminate some of Sweden’s most unattractive environments. His gaze felt almost alien. In front of his camera, the world appeared unreal.

People laughed and admired the images—but the photographer also faced criticism for what some perceived as a cynical view of his subjects. He himself was surprised by this. He did not feel that he was photographing “others,” but rather saw himself as a natural part of the Sweden he documented. It was about us, not them.

Tunbjörk began his career as a teenage press photographer at the local newspaper Borås Tidning, later shifting his focus to Stockholm and eventually working internationally.

Humor and melancholy coexist in his images. Many also carry a subtle social critique, aimed at the hyper-commercial, loudly colorful, yet often lonely world he portrayed.

Several of his books have become highly sought-after collector’s items, including Kontor / Office, Home, I Love Borås, and Winter. The most coveted of all has been Landet utom sig / Country Beside Itself, which was reissued in 2025.

Lena Kvist is a Swedish journalist and PhD candidate at University of Gothenburg, within the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication. She is currently working on an academic dissertation on Lars Tunbjörk and Swedish press photography in the 1990s.

Mikaela Friberg is an internationally recognized street photographer whose work explores everyday urban life.

She travels frequently, photographing in cities as she moves through airports, streets, and public spaces — drawn to moments where the ordinary becomes unexpectedly compelling, or where subtle drama enters the everyday.

With an observant eye, she notices small human interactions that might otherwise pass unseen. Her images are never staged, but simply reflect fragments of everyday street life as they appear.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in photography salons around the world.

At this year’s festival, she presents The Street Observed — a selection of images that invites viewers to pause and notice the subtle details, rhythms, and quiet tensions of everyday moments.

Morten Andresen is an Oslo-based street photographer and co-founder of Streetianity, a creative platform he runs together with his wife, photographer Eva Brodtkorb. With a background in the commercial television industry, he spent nearly two decades working as a director and post-producer before gradually shifting his focus toward photography.

His work is known for a distinct and recognizable style, often shaped by his use of light, shadows, and color. He draws inspiration from everything around him, but especially from his years in television, where capturing and holding the viewer’s attention is key.

Growing up, he was heavily inspired by colorful cartoons and comics, and originally dreamed of becoming a cartoonist, an influence that still finds its way into his work.

He has always had a strong drive to create, whether through drawing, filmmaking, music, or photography. His work focuses on capturing striking visual scenes with a sense of humor, wonder, and the solitude of city life. He has had solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. 

Through Streetianity, he and Eva work closely with photographers around the world, selling prints, producing publications, offering workshops, and creating the YouTube series On the Curb with Streetianity, where they meet and talk with photographers in different cities.

Peter Turnley is renowned for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek forty-three times and are published frequently in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. He has worked in over ninety countries and has witnessed most major stories of international geopolitical and historic significance in the last forty years. He has both American and French nationality,  

Turnley has photographed most of the world’s conflicts, including the Gulf War of 1991, the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the 2003 war in Iraq. He has produced portraits and covered many of the modern world’s most influential people: Obama, Castro, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Ceausescu, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr., Lady Diana, and Pope Jean Paul II among others. 

Since 1975 Turnley has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. He was born in the U.S. but has lived more than half his life in Paris, where he worked as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in his early days in Paris in 1981.

Turnley has photographed extensively the life of Cuba since 1989 and has published a book Cuba: A Grace of Spirit. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide, including a major retrospective: “Moments of the Human Condition” at Cuba’s most important museum, “Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes”. Turnley was the first American artist since the Cuban Revolution to have a major retrospective exhibit at Cuba’s most important museum.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Turnley has received honorary doctorate degrees from the New School of Social Research in New York, Ohio Wesleyan University and St. Francis College of Indiana. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000–2001.

A street photographer based in Istanbul, Tuna Angel is known for her close-up candid, flash-lit street portraits captured in snap focus. Her work emphasizes raw emotion and spontaneous gestures, free from posed expressions or staged scenes. By using flash, she highlights the subtle mimics and emotional intensity of her subjects, capturing fleeting moments with immediacy and depth.

Angel’s photographs have received first prizes in international competitions judged by renowned photographers such as Martin Parr and Steve McCurry, and have been recognized as finalists on various curated platforms.

Her work has been exhibited widely across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, from Istanbul to New York, London to Kyoto; Dublin, Brussels, Milan, Rome, Seville, and Frankfurt, as well as in Mexico, Argentina, and Australia. She has also served as a juror, administrator, and curator within several international photography communities, and her work has been featured in interviews and publications across multiple platforms.

For Angel, photography is a form of intense personal expression and attentive witnessing. Her images seek to capture moments where aesthetics and lived experience intersect — revealing the emotional textures, social tensions, and cultural rhythms that shape the spirit of an era. Through this practice, she embraces the photographer’s role as both observer and visual chronicler of the zeitgeist.

“My presentation will feature both color and black-and-white photographs captured with flash, and I will discuss my award-winning images, exploring their denotative and iconographic meanings as well as the reasons they received recognition.”

Vineet Vohra (born 2 November 1973, New Delhi) is a self-taught street photographer, educator, editor, and filmmaker. A Fine Arts graduate from the College of Art, he began as a wildlife photographer before discovering his true calling in street photography in 2001.

He is the first Indian Ambassador for Leica Camera and currently serves as Vivo India Ambassador for Vivo. Founder of Art Photo Feature (APF), he created a global platform supporting emerging photographers and artists.

His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Leica Hall in Wetzlar, and featured in international publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, and The Guardian.

A sought-after speaker and jury member at major photography festivals, he has received multiple awards, including honors at Xposure Festival. He is the author of “Serendipity” and assistant DOP for the award-winning film “Harami.”

“My talk:

I’ll be talking about how Street photography captures theatre by revealing everyday life and unfolds like a performance. The street becomes a stage, where light acts as a spotlight, and ordinary people become unknowing actors. Gestures, expressions, and fleeting interactions create scenes filled with emotion, tension, and story simply without a script. A single moment, perfectly timed, can feel like the climax of a play. Juxtaposition adds another layer, where unrelated elements appear connected, as if choreographed. This illusion of structure within chaos is what makes it theatrical. How I  witness it, framing reality as if it were a living, breathing piece of theatre.”