Words by Megan Johnson, Photos by Joshua Albert

“Street photography is photography that features the human condition within public places. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment.” -Alejandro Beltran

Despite its name, it is the human condition of street photography that captures our visual interest and piques our imaginations.

Humans have a unique ability to inhabit almost any space on this earth and call it home. The urban American space can be a dazzling sprawl of innovation and design. It is built over and around and inbetween the history of our hard work, of our failures and successes. It is the backdrop of our collective memory and potential future. It is a space sometimes unkind, unforgiving and deeply unfair. It is a reflection of who we are from all angles and all points of view. It favors some without reason and discards others.

The Riverwards is our shared environment. But it is our interaction with this space and with each other that truly defines our space, our neighborhoods. From the dull to the profound, from the beautiful to the ugly: This is our story in pictures.