10 Best Street Photography YouTube Channels to Watch in 2027

Street photography is all about capturing candid moments in public places, and few places teach it better than YouTube. Whether you want to sharpen your skills, find new inspiration or simply watch great photographers at work, the right channel can change how you see the street.

As we head into 2027, these are some of the best street photography YouTube channels we’ll be keeping an eye on, in no particular order. Most of them still upload regularly, and the ones that don’t are still worth watching. Together they cover everything from film and Ricoh GRs to Tokyo nights and the philosophy behind a good photo.

Paulie B

Paulie B (Paul Baldonado) is a New York street photographer and one of the driving forces of the city’s street photography scene. He started in 2015 with a 365-day photo project and never really stopped: his long-running NYC Everyday series, shot on film, had its first exhibition in Amsterdam in 2024.

His channel is best known for the epic Walkie Talkie series, now nearing 90 episodes. In each one, he spends a day on the streets with another photographer, from New York locals to names like Matt Stuart, showing how different people approach street photography and giving a real look behind the scenes. Between episodes, he shares his own film work, POVs, road trips and zines. If you’re looking for inspiration or want to understand how street photographers think, Paulie’s channel is a great place to start.

Karin Majoka

Karin Majoka is a German film photographer and one of the most popular analog voices on YouTube. She studied psychology, wrote her master’s thesis on creativity, and started her channel in 2020 to document her analog journey, partly because she saw too few women in film photography.

Her street work is mostly shot on a Leica M6 with a 35mm lens, but her channel covers the whole analog world: the Yashica T4 and Hasselblad XPan, medium format, scanning film at home, and photo trips to Japan and Finland. Her night photography tips video alone has been watched almost 700,000 times. A must-watch for anyone who loves film and street photography.

Want to know more about Karin? Read our interview with Karin Majoka.

Mike Chudley

Mike Chudley is a UK street photographer based in Essex, a short train ride from London, where he shoots much of his work. He grew up skateboarding and photographing his crew, studied film and media, and started his YouTube channel around 2020. It grew fast during the pandemic and today has over 140,000 subscribers.

Instead of gear reviews, Mike focuses on first-person street photography and practical lessons on seeing and composing. He shoots digital on a Leica M11-P with a 35mm Summilux and film on a Leica M4, and Leica has brought him in to teach workshops in Vienna and London. His book Find Your Focus: A Street Photography Masterclass was released in October 2026, a great next step if you like his teaching style.

EYExplore

EYExplore is co-run by Lukasz Palka, a Polish-born, US-raised street photographer who has lived in Tokyo since 2008. Lukasz knows the city like few others, and his photos of Tokyo’s streets, neon nights and quiet corners became the book Tokyo Unseen. Besides running photo walks and workshops in Tokyo, he shares that experience on YouTube with street photography walks, tips and lens tests, mostly on the streets of Tokyo. If you love Japan or want to learn from someone who has shot the same city for over 15 years, this is the channel for you.

Sean Tucker

Sean Tucker is a true legend of photography YouTube, and with over 600,000 subscribers, the biggest channel on this list. Born in the UK and raised mostly in Africa, Sean spent his twenties as a pastor in South Africa before picking up photography professionally around the age of 30. Today he’s based in London, works as a photographer and filmmaker, and has a background in psychology.

That path shows in his work. His street photography is less about decisive moments and more about light, shadow and graphic lines, with people often small in the frame. And his videos go far beyond camera settings: Sean talks about creativity, motivation, doubt and why we make photos at all, in a way that has helped countless photographers find their own voice.

He has also put that thinking into books: The Meaning in the Making (2021), a philosophy for the creative life, and The Art of Street Photography: Express the Moment (2026), written with street photographer Joshua K. Jackson. He has also published a series of limited-edition photo books, his Collections, full of his favorite images of light and shadow. If you want to think about street photography differently, start here.

Faizal Westcott

Faizal Westcott is an Indonesian-American street photographer and filmmaker based in New York City, and with 270,000 subscribers one of the biggest street photography channels out there. Largely self-taught, he got into photography through his father and taught himself filmmaking by publishing a new video every week.

Many people discovered him through his POV street photography videos shot on the Fujifilm X100F, a format he has since moved away from. His work shifted from documentary toward a more abstract, painterly style, inspired by Saul Leiter, Ernst Haas and Harry Gruyaert, and his Street Study series breaks down the work of masters like Josef Koudelka. In 2026, he also teamed up with Leica for Made for Seeing, a short film about shooting with an iPhone and the Leica LUX app. His videos are beautifully made and great for anyone interested in color, mood and composition.

Samuel Streetlife

Samuel Streetlife is the channel of Samuel Lintaro Hopf, a photographer and filmmaker born in Kamakura, Japan, and based in Germany. He has been taking photos since he was 13, studied communication design and worked as a photojournalist and cinematographer before YouTube became his main job.

Samuel is also a Ricoh GR ambassador and one of Ricoh’s official “GRists”, and if there’s one person on YouTube who knows the GR series inside out, it’s him. From the Ricoh GR III and GR IIIx to the new GR IV, his reviews and long-term tests are some of the most honest out there.

But his channel is much more than camera talk. In his monthly Monochrome Report, he shares his latest black & white work and thoughts on photography, and in On the Street With he spends time on the street with other photographers. It’s one of the most community-driven channels in the genre.

Frederik Trovatten

Frederik Trovatten is a Danish photographer based in Copenhagen and one of the best teachers on YouTube. He’s best known for his “How to take photos like…” series, where he breaks down the styles of masters like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joel Meyerowitz, Vivian Maier and Alexey Titarenko and shows how to apply them yourself. His Cartier-Bresson episode alone has close to a million views.

Frederik spent four years working in Mexico, including a 365-day street photography project in Mexico City, and street photography has opened big doors for him: his Burger King campaign in Mexico City, built on street photography and street casting, won three Gold Lions at Cannes, and Coca-Cola later hired him for a street photography campaign too.

Framelines

Framelines is run by London street photographers Shane Taylor and Josh Edgoose, who met at an exhibition in 2019 and started the channel in early 2020. It began with GoPro POVs and grew during lockdown into videos about photobooks, photographers and the craft, with a focus on digital street photography at a time when much of YouTube was about film.

Both are accomplished photographers in their own right. Shane, who grew up in rural Ireland, has published two photobooks and shot for brands like Adidas and Ted Baker. Josh, known as “Spicy Meatball” on Instagram, is a Fujifilm ambassador whose colorful book Brilliant Parade was covered by The Guardian. Today, Framelines is also a community with monthly assignments and a print magazine.

Adrien Sanguinetti

Adrien Sanguinetti makes photography and videography content from around the world, but mostly from Japan, from rainy days in Kyoto to the streets of Tokyo. His videos are calm and cinematic, and he shoots with cameras from Sony, Ricoh, Fujifilm and Canon.

What makes his channel stand out is how much you can learn from it. In his composition analysis videos, he breaks down his own street photos and explains what makes each frame work, and he shares the Lightroom workflow he has refined over more than a decade. If you’re dreaming of photographing Japan or want to get better at composition, Adrien’s channel is a must.

Keep learning, keep shooting

Watching great photographers is one of the best ways to grow, but nothing beats getting out there yourself. Pick a channel, try one idea on your next walk, and share what you shoot.

Looking for a place to share your street photos? Join PortraitMode, the street photography community, and get feedback, inspiration and a chance to be featured.

Did we miss your favorite channel? Let us know in the comments.