Since its establishment by Nick Turpin in January 2000 in-public has provided a focal point for the current generation of Street Photographers around the world. Its photographers on four continents have demonstrated that, despite being as old as photography itself, Street Photography remains as relevant as at anytime in the last century. 

What is Street Photography? Nick Turpin has argued that in some sense we are all Street Photographers: 

"Street Photography is just Photography in its simplest form – it is the medium itself. It is actually all the other forms of photography that need defining. Landscape, fashion, portrait, reportage, art, advertising....these are all complicating additions to the medium of Photography. These are the areas that need to be defined, ring-fenced and partitioned out of the medium of Street Photography." 

Whilst photographers have played conceptually with the medium's inherent ambiguity and stretched the photograph's relationship with a real event or scene to breaking point, we always seem to return to the basic power of the camera to record. Nowhere is that recording of the documents of life more profound than in the work of the Street Photographer. Here are people who go out into a public place without research or preconception of ideas and respond instinctively to what is revealed to them. Their pictures, choreographed by chance, in little fragments show us our modern lives. 

When famine, war and civil strife command the attention of the majority of documentary photographers, it is crucial that we don't lose sight of the decisions we have made as societies at home. Images made on Oxford Street, 5th Avenue or in the local park by Street Photographers place our own daily lives under the microscope and reveal our values.