13 Inspirational Examples of Travel Street Photography

by Eric Kim on April 22, 2011

"Hitchcock" - Hamburg, Germany - Thomas Leuthard

Recently on my Facebook fan page and Twitter, I asked you to send in your favorite street photographs taken while traveling. Check all the images below to see inspirational images from all over the world! Make sure to follow me to stay updated with the new weekly assignments. Read more to see all the other amazing images.

"Reach" - NYC - Andrew Miller

"Business" - Hong Kong - Chio Gonzalez

"0161" - Brixton, London, UK - Marco Novo

"Hail" - NYC - Khai Pin

New Orleans - Anindya Chakraborty

Snake Doc' - Lake Phewa, Pokhara - Pichaya V.

"Untitled" - London - Simon Wallerstedt

"Bruges busker" - Bruges - Tim Allen

">>" - Denver, CO, 2011 - Santi Garcia

NYC - Jen May

"One Expensive Puff" - Mapusa Market, Goa, India - Lovell D'souza

"Hectic" - Paris - Fokko Muller

Do you have more examples of your own travel street photography? If so, leave a comment below with a link to your image and share the love!

Tagged as: inspiration, street photography, travel street photography

http://www.arovingvision.com Kit Taylor

Nice selection. I particularly like “Hectic”– it gives me that feeling of aprehension i have as I’m about to try to dash across a busy street. The challenge, I think, of travel street photography is to catch the ordinary in a place that is exotic to us, and to capture a sense of place as well as the direct subject of the photo.

Most of the photos in the selction of street/candid photos on my website are travel street/candid — only one is from my home turf of Seattle: http://www.arovingvision.com/Street/index.html
- http://www.fokkomuller.nl fomu
  
  Thanks Kit. Like your website!
Alireza

Nice selection! Here are some of my street photography shots in a recent trip to Paris:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8413680@N08/sets/72157626250420009/

I like your essays on Street Photography. You do a great job!
http://silentxpression.wordpress.com/ Simon Wallerstedt

First of all, thank you so much for including my photo!
All the images are amazing. My favorites are Thomas Leuthard’s “Hitchcock” and Chio Gonzalez’s “Business”. Both have very similar aesthetics, and there’s something about it that really catches my interest.
Another favorite is “Hectic” by Fokko Muller. You can really feel the energy there, and the panning is excellent!
- http://www.fokkomuller.nl fomu
  
  Thanks Simon! Like your shot too. Good catch!
http://www.facesoflondon.co.uk Marco

Well done Tim for getting featured. You too Simon!
http://www.jenmayblog.com Jen May Pastores

I see my name, but no photo.
Chio Gonzalez

Thank you for the featuring my photo Eric!
I really like all the pictures here, but my favorite is “Hitchcock” by Thomas Leuthard. I love the silhouette.
http://Www.kbtimages.co.uk Kevin Thornhill

A selection of images from my time in Bangkok
http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ukphotoart/sets/72157626301640760
http://turkishtravelblog.com Natalie

I love number two. Not sure if I could ever capture a picture like that. Would love to know if it was spur of the moment
- http://acmillerphotography.blogspot.com Andrew Miller
  
  Hi Natalie, thank you for your comment. Yes, it was spur of the moment. I was walking from the World Trade Center Site to Wall Street when I took this photo at the Red Cube Sculpture. This boy was with who appeared to be his sister and father. I was only able to shoot off 4 frames as he was running towards to the cube. My favorite from my entire series of NYC photos last year.
http://anindya.smugmug.com Anindya

Thanks so much for including my New Orleans photograph. Great set of images being showcased. Street photography is surely an art and most of the images displayed here are splendid…thanks again!
http://ayeepeyes.blogspot.com/ Lazarez

Nice lineup…!

I wish mine are half as good as these…
http://www.fokkomuller.nl fomu

Thanks Eric for featuring my photo. Great to be a part of this great selection.
My favorites are ‘Hitchcock’ by Thomas Leuthard and the shot of Santi Garcia. I like the classic style of those.
Grant johnson

Inspiring selection…

Here’s a lucky one from the hip in Cuba

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/themule/3531668980/sizes/m/
http://www.creditdonkey.com/ June@CreditDonkey

I particularly like Business. The sea of people and the congruence and monotony of their actions is hypnotizing. It can be an editorial kind of photo because it captured the movement in a click. I see you have a brilliant selection right here. Keep celebrating the art!
http://timallenphoto.co.uk/ Tim Allen

Wow thanks for featuring my shot Eric, really made my day!
http://www.photographyhobby.info Liewilyn Baynosa

great collection you have here eric. Very beautiful images… thanks for sharing.. keep it up man
http://www.photographyhobby.info Liewilyn Baynosa

I do Photo Manipulations visit me at my site thanks… by the way I really love your collections
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Andy Perkins

Lovely stuff…more power to your shutter finger!

My facebook street photography page
https://www.facebook.com/streetphotographyuk

and a shot from the imagephoto.org site
http://www.imagephoto.org/street/neighbours-7823.html
http://www.olliegapperphotography.com olliegapper

http://www.olliegapperphotography.com – Don’t know where I’d be without street photography.
http://timothywilsonart.com/ Tim Wilson

I got back from a trip to New Orleans myself recently. Here are some of my street photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timwilson/sets/72157626278292125/
http://www.hdrphotos.com/blog HDR photography

Very nice photos. But I have to say the photo of the two cobra snakes in the baskets is very freaky. Thanks for your insight and photography advice.
http://mayank-p.blogspot.com Mayank

Hi Eric,
I got introduced to street photography from your blog and what i have learned is from your posts. i often however fair to appreciate many photographs which many others think is great. I can say i have a reasonable eye for other genres but not so much for street. I havent read much about styles etc so help me. Suggest some readings or possibly let us have a post on what makes a street photograph work and what doesnt. lets say the case in point is denver above. or say bruges.
http://acmillerphotography.blogspot.com Andrew Miller

Hi Eric, meant to thank you for the feature! All the photos are great and well deserved. Last year when I took that photo in Lower Manhattan, I found that I was more comfortable practicing street photography while traveling. I was less self-conscious and felt that I blended into the crowd much easier then at home in Chicago. Now almost a year later, things have changed on the home front. I’m much less self-conscious out in the streets and have been able to create pictures that I never would have imagined were possible.
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