This Street Photographer Captures Raw And Human Moments In Everyday Life (40 Pics)
Margarita Mavromichalis is a street photographer whose work centers on everyday life, human behavior, and emotionally charged moments found in public spaces. She speaks five languages and studied translation and interpreting, often describing photography as her second language because of its ability to communicate across cultures without words.
After moving to New York in 2009, she studied at the International Center of Photography, where she later served as a Teaching Assistant. In 2014, she returned to Greece and devoted much of her work to documenting the refugee crisis on the island of Lesvos, focusing on its social and human impact. She is currently based in Tokyo, continuing her exploration of street life and contemporary realities.
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Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, including in New York, Boston, San Diego, Paris, Berlin, London, Athens, Budapest, Barcelona, and Tokyo, with selected works held in the permanent collections of the "Museum of the City of New York" and the "Brooklyn Historical Society". Margarita’s work has been published by "The Wall Street Journal" and "The Huffington Post", and featured in books by "teNeues", "Prestel", and "Hoxton Mini Press".
She has received numerous awards, including the "Pollux Award", multiple "Julia Margaret Cameron Awards", medals at the "Budapest International Foto Awards" and "Prix de la Photographie Paris", and a nomination for the "Leica Oscar Barnack Award" in 2023. Alongside her practice, she teaches street photography workshops worldwide, sharing her approach to observation, storytelling, and cultural discovery.
The kid looks both curious and nervous, while sitting next to a big clown, that looks to be either sad or resting. I wonder what occurred after this photo was taken?
Everybody's thinking, "Oh this guy's gonna ask us for money now ..."
Reminds me of the beginning of summer, when you can finally wear shorts, but your legs are so white, they're blinding. Also that interior of the cab door is filthy dirty.
As a lot of people reading this don’t have legs so white they’re blinding it would probably make more sense to say ‘when I can finally wear shorts but my legs are so white they’re blinding'
Load More Replies...Foreign tourist offering her cone to kids for a photo op? I dunno. Kinda sketchy.
Beautiful child projecting confidence. I hope this is what they feel.
But why? I'm sure this is scaring more than just kids, unless it's Halloween but it doesn't appear so.
I was in Amsterdam when there was a weird promotional effort for the US TV show The Walking Dead. Zombies were everywhere. I cannot find a record of this so maybe I'm delusional?
Load More Replies...Did the poor pup just have their ears cut, for no other reason, but looks?
Is there any reason other than the owner's vanity?
Load More Replies...Jesus, I would jump in front of on-coming traffic if I even THOUGHT that might be him!
Hidrėlėy, as usual, it is so lovely that you include photos of places that are not just the US and Europe - thanks so much!
Hidrėlėy, as usual, it is so lovely that you include photos of places that are not just the US and Europe - thanks so much!
