David Shokouhbeen was born in 1984 in Herdecke, Germany. He is photographing since 2006. Beginning with exclusively black and white photography, he started developing film in a self-built darkroom at his parents’ house and switched later to a digital camera, shooting in color more often.
Professionally, studied to become a teacher for Spanish and Mathematics, he ended up in the family business, renovating houses. Always on the road with one of his favorite cameras, his path led him to study Photography at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany.
About my work:
Street photography is the genre that I deal with most intensively and at the same time the biggest challenge, as it demands a high level of concentration and attention when you try to capture the decisive moment. What I like about street photography is the thrill and the unpredictability of life itself when it unfolds. Sometimes you capture the most absurd moments that you couldn't have imagined before. In addition to the obvious humor, I research the interplay that takes place between people and their everyday environment. The boundary between illusion and perception is often blurred, even though it is a matter of reality, never staged. It is therefore important to show a certain way of thinking, to have a vision, to be able to anticipate and of course to choose the right perspective.
With my photographic works, I was already represented at several renowned international street photography festivals and gave a lecture on the street photography scene in Cologne at the first German festival for street photography in Hamburg in 2019.
EXHIBITIONS
Pisa Street Photography International Festival
Pisa Street Photography International Festival
2023 - Pisa Street Photography International Festival (PSPI), Finalist Exhibition at SMS Exhibition Centre - San Michele degli Scalzi, Pisa, Italy
2023 - Street Photography Mixtape Group Exhibition at Atelierzentrum Ehrernfeld (AZE), part of “Internationale Photoszene Festival Köln”, Cologne, Germany
2022 - Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards, Finalist Exhibition at the Centre for the Promotion of Culture Gaude Mater, Częstochowa, Poland
2021 - Istanbul Street Photography Festival (ISPF), Finalist Exhibition at the Haliç Congress Center, Istanbul
2020 - European Month Of Photography (EMOP), “Street Photo: Charlottenburg”, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019 - Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF), Finalist Exhibition at HistoryMiami Museum in Miami, United States
2019 - Paris Street Photo Awards (PSPA), Silver Medal, Paris, France
2019 - Street Photography Cologne (SPC) Collective MeetUp & Exhibition “Rhythmus der Stadt”, part of “Internationale Photoszene Festival Köln”, Cologne, Germany
2018 - Brussels Street Photography Festival (BSPF), Finalist Exhibition at Muntpunt in Brussels, Belgium
2018 - Street Photography Cologne" (SPC) Collective MeetUp & Exhibition at Onkel Schick, Cologne, Germany
2018 - London Street Photography Festival (LSPF), Finalist Exhibition at Stour Space in London, England
2018 - World Street Photography 5 Exhibition at Gudberg Nerger Gallery in Hamburg, Germany
INTERVIEWS/MEDIA
2022 - UP Photographers Interview by invitation of Melissa O’Shaughnessy
2021 - Why we love 28mm for Street Photography, video by Samuel Lintaro Hopf
2021 - GR-Cities project, video by Samuel Lintaro Hopf for Ricoh GR Photography
2020 - Soul of Street Magazine #31, Interview: “Man weiss eigentlich nicht, was einen erwartet”
2019 - Speaker at the German Street Photography Festival (Symposium) in Hamburg, presenting “Street Photography Cologne” (SPC) Collective
2019 - Ricoh Imaging/PENTAX Portfolio: "Ene, mene meck…" by Jan Klose-Brüdern
PUBLICATIONS
2019 - World Street Photography 6 Book (1 Photo)
2018 - World Street Photography 5 Book (4 Photos)
2019, 2020, 2021 - Soul of Street Magazine #22, 31, 36