Discover Street Photography by City and Country
You’ve always been able to see where a photo was taken on PortraitMode, but until now we never organized photos by location. That’s what Places changes: discover street photography by cities and countries.
Introducing: Places
We gathered location data from over 140k photos posted on PortraitMode and grouped them. Pick from 159 countries and 6.5k+ cities, and discover the street photographers shooting there.
Every city also shows its 6 most prominent photographers and the cameras people use there the most. Heading somewhere new? See how photographers shoot the city before you go. Curious whether your own city leans Fujifilm, Ricoh or Leica? It’s all there.
The most popular cities on PortraitMode right now are London, Moscow and New York. There’s also a dynamic map if you’d rather explore visually.
Places is coming soon to the app.
Camera names you can finally read
Remember searching for your favorite camera and ending up with 10 different pages, each with a slightly different spelling of the same camera name? Those days are over. Camera names from EXIF data are now cleaned up and readable across the whole platform, so every camera has one page with all of its photos. That makes it much easier to discover street photography by camera models.
Curious which cameras street photographers use most? Check out the most popular street photography cameras.
Get featured and brag about it
Getting featured on PortraitMode is something to be proud of, so we made it easier to show off. Everyone we feature now gets an email with a ready-made story card for Instagram, with your photo already set up and ready to post.
Share it to your story and tag @portraitmode.io, and we’ll repost you to our audience. It’s a simple way to put your work in front of more street photographers, and to let your followers know you’ve been featured.
Thank you for supporting PortraitMode
A big thank you to everyone who has used the recently introduced in-app purchases. PortraitMode is built for street photographers, and your support directly helps us keep it going and keep improving it, with features like Places.
We don’t take it for granted. Thank you for being part of the community.
Start exploring
Open Places, find your city, and see who else is shooting there. Then look up a country you’ve always wanted to visit, or one you’ve never thought about, and see what street photography looks like there.
Happy shooting! 📸
David
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Great idea!
i liked Places too much but there is a little problem; you can’t see the photos signed by country only, for example; if the photo was taken in New York but it was signed by USA by the photographer you can’t see it.
thanks and keep the good work going!❤️
Thanks for the feedback! You’re right: if someone only tags a photo with “USA”, it stays uncategorized. But I’d say that’s mostly user error. The same goes for “Europe”, “Asia”, etc…
If someone is that vague, it basically means they don’t want their photo categorized under Places. Ideally, users would enter the name of the city.
@davidvongries i would love to see uncategorized photos also. I see more than one hundred photos for a specific country but the categorized one are less than 20.
What country for example? Happy to look into this.
Wonderful