Phil Penman - #myfive

The British-born, New York-based photographer Phil Penman has documented New York City’s streets for over 25 years. https://www.philpenman.com His new photo book, New York Street Diaries, can be found here: https://www.philpenman.com/store/ In his career as a news and magazine photographer, with a large body of work in such publications as The Guardian, The Independent, and The New York Review of Books. He has photographed major public figures and historical events. In particular, his reportage following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has been featured on NBC’s Today show and on the BBC, History Channel, and Al Jazeera, and his images have been included in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s archives. His work covering the pandemic lockdown in New York City has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress, whose collection holds work by such great Depression-era documentarians as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Besides showing at Leica galleries in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and London, Penman’s signature street photography has appeared in international exhibitions as far afield as Venice, Berlin, and Sydney. He also tours the world, teaching workshops on photography for Leica Akademie. He was recently named among the “52 Most Influential Street Photographers,” alongside such legends as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand. Penman’s first book, Street, published in 2019, became a best-seller and was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.