#224 WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS: AN INTERNATIONAL STORY

Gulnara Samoilova, a photojournalist, a documentarian, a curator, a street photographer and now an editor with a Wednesday Photostory edition about a new book featuring 100 international Women Street Photographers. We talk about what the street genre means to her, how she curated this collection and the runaway success of the organisation created to promote the work of women street photographers worldwide. We also talk about Gulnara's own incredibly powerful work that won a coveted World Press Photo award for coverage of 9/11.

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A selection of street photographs by the editor of Women Street Photographers. Photographs copyright Gulnara Samoilova. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.