Chris Lowell began a career in street photography in 2005, inspired by the photographic styles of the early street photographers: Frank, Erwitt, Evans, Ronis, Cartier-Bresson. He documented urban street scenes across the world – from Paris to Marrakech, Florence to Port-au-Prince – always trying to evoke a sense of relatability and humanity in his subjects. Taking pictures with the same 35mm rangefinders as his influences, Lowell became quickly versed in the ability to shoot without thinking, to let impulse snap the shutter.
In 2009, after re-discovering the early photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe and the library of southern portraits from Sally Mann,...
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