About Michael Goldrei

British, Austrian & Irish street & documentary photographer Michael Goldrei originally hails from the UK and has lived in Vienna, Austria since 2017. His work shows the humour, mundanity and colour of everyday life and has been featured by The Guardian, BBC, Time Out, Slate.fr, Il Post, Buzzfeed, Petapixel, Eyeshot, ColdType, LensCulture, Gizmodo, South Bank London, Londonist, and Vogue Italia's PhotoVogue.

He has published two books, ‘chromorama’ (2018) and ‘Hoods’ (2019). He has also produced a highly limited artwork based on the latter book, ‘Hoods – Möbius Edition’ (2019), featured on Petapixel as ‘The World’s First One-sided Continuous Photography Book?’. A series of zines of his work was launched in 2022 under the imprint Eggs Press. All of these publications are included in the Tate Library & Archive at Tate Britain and the OstLicht gallery in Vienna.

Self-taught, he runs the Shoot Vienna series of street photography walks, and is the founder of Optic Nerve, an international street photography collective which aims to keep a balance of genders for its members. He was a finalist at Italian Street Photo Festival 2023 & 2019, StreetFoto San Francisco 2017, London Street Photography Festival 2018 & 2017, Miami Street Photography Festival 2017 & 2016, Dublin Street Photography Festival 2024, and Brussels Street Photography Festival 2024. He has worked as a Stills photographer on a British horror film.

“A little bit Disney” - Jeff Mermelstein

"One of my top 10 favourites at the festival" - Martin Parr, Miami Street Photography Festival 2016.

"A nice quirky eye" - Dylan Martinez, Chief Photographer, UKI, Reuters News.

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