The work here comprises an ongoing project of photography on the sly. I’m endlessly intrigued by the beautiful mash-up of nonfiction and fiction that candid photography has to offer; the non-fiction in the fraction of a second that the photo was taken, the fiction that follows as each viewer sees the photo and creates their own story.
Photography allows me to pluck out strange fleeting moments amongst the mad whorl of urban life and put them in my pocket. The images become a document of the city and a way to share how I see things, but also personal souvenirs of my journey through this curious world.
SELECTED FEATURES and EXHIBITIONS Book: Masters of Street Photography (Ammonite Press) | PHOS Festival Sofia 2019: PhotoSynthesis Gallery | LACP: Street Shooting Around the World Exhibition, 3rd place, 2019 | El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, NYC, 2018: Women Street Photographers Exhibit | Black & White Photography print feature | PDN Magazine: Featured photographer, July 2018 | Humane Society + Aperture auction | San Francisco Camerawork, SF: Home exhibit | Panopticon Gallery, Boston: First Look Showcase | 2017 Perspectives Award: Grand Prize | The New York Times | Harvey Milk Photo Center San Francisco 2017 | Pulitzer Center finalist: Strong Women | Feature Shoot feature | Street Sans Frontières Paris 2017 | Fisheye Magazine | Miami Street Photography Festival | Women in Photography | National Geographic: Our World in Motion | LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016 Top 100 | Inspired Eye Magazine 18 | Simply: Center for Fine Art Photography | 21st Century Street Photography: New Examples
READ MY CLIPS Feature Shoot | New York Times Magazine | TreeHugger | Amazon | Mother Nature Network
WRITE ME (for photography): melbreyer@mac.com
FIND ME (for TreeHugger): melissa@treehugger.com
VISIT ME: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Photography allows me to pluck out strange fleeting moments amongst the mad whorl of urban life and put them in my pocket. The images become a document of the city and a way to share how I see things, but also personal souvenirs of my journey through this curious world.
SELECTED FEATURES and EXHIBITIONS Book: Masters of Street Photography (Ammonite Press) | PHOS Festival Sofia 2019: PhotoSynthesis Gallery | LACP: Street Shooting Around the World Exhibition, 3rd place, 2019 | El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, NYC, 2018: Women Street Photographers Exhibit | Black & White Photography print feature | PDN Magazine: Featured photographer, July 2018 | Humane Society + Aperture auction | San Francisco Camerawork, SF: Home exhibit | Panopticon Gallery, Boston: First Look Showcase | 2017 Perspectives Award: Grand Prize | The New York Times | Harvey Milk Photo Center San Francisco 2017 | Pulitzer Center finalist: Strong Women | Feature Shoot feature | Street Sans Frontières Paris 2017 | Fisheye Magazine | Miami Street Photography Festival | Women in Photography | National Geographic: Our World in Motion | LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016 Top 100 | Inspired Eye Magazine 18 | Simply: Center for Fine Art Photography | 21st Century Street Photography: New Examples
READ MY CLIPS Feature Shoot | New York Times Magazine | TreeHugger | Amazon | Mother Nature Network
WRITE ME (for photography): melbreyer@mac.com
FIND ME (for TreeHugger): melissa@treehugger.com
VISIT ME: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter