Pavement: The International Street Photography Symposium is coming to the street photography capital of the world, NYC, in June 2026! This is your essential gathering for all creating street photography based work. Featuring intensive Lectures, insightful Reviews, portfolio Printing, guided Workshops through iconic neighborhoods, a stunning group Exhibition at a NYC Gallery, the latest in Cameras, and unparalleled Community.
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Location
Cre8ive NYC Studios
134 W 29th Street, New York NY 10001, 2nd Floor
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134 W 29th Street, New York NY 10001, 2nd Floor
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Date & Time
June 4, 2026, 9:00 AM - June 7, 2026, 7:00 PM
THEORY & PRACTICE OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Elevate your eye, master your craft, and network with the world's best street photographers. PAVEMENT is a four day symposium with two days of theory and two days of practice.
Elevate your eye, master your craft, and network with the world's best street photographers. PAVEMENT is a four day symposium with two days of theory and two days of practice.
PAVEMENT Council of Speakers
The PAVEMENT Symposium brings together an expanded collective of visionaries, each offering a distinct perspective on the urban landscape. From Harvey Stein’s iconic documentation of New York and Meryl Meisler’s vibrant cultural archives, to the gritty, raw intimacy of Suzanne Stein, the depth of experience is profound. Joined by Phil Penman’s high-contrast, journalistic edge, Steve Simon’s ability to capture the fleeting, decisive moment, and David Brommer’s technical and atmospheric expertise, this faculty forms an unmatched powerhouse of street-level wisdom and decades of frontline experience.
The program is further elevated by the addition of Elizabeth Avedon and Stephen Mallon, who join the core faculty in conducting intensive portfolio reviews. This collective of mentors provides a rare opportunity for photographers to receive direct, critical feedback from a wide range of editorial, curatorial, and street-level perspectives, ensuring every participant has the guidance needed to refine their work into a definitive professional presence & statement.
Click on speaker image to see Bio & PAVEMENT Presentation and Workshop
The program is further elevated by the addition of Elizabeth Avedon and Stephen Mallon, who join the core faculty in conducting intensive portfolio reviews. This collective of mentors provides a rare opportunity for photographers to receive direct, critical feedback from a wide range of editorial, curatorial, and street-level perspectives, ensuring every participant has the guidance needed to refine their work into a definitive professional presence & statement.
Click on speaker image to see Bio & PAVEMENT Presentation and Workshop
Special Guest Speakers and Reviewers
Our Symposium location: Cre8ive NYC
PAVEMENT Symposium takes place at the center of it all- mid town Manhattan. Located at the intersection of Chelsea, Penn Station, Nomad, and Hudson Yards it's the perfect spot for our gathering.
Nearby Transit Details:
1 at 28 St Station (3 minute walk)
1, 2, 3, A, C, E at 34 St-Penn Station (4 minute walk)
N, Q, R, Q, B, D, F, M at 34 St-Herald Sq (8 minute walk)
NJ Path at 33rd Street (5 minute walk)
Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit at Penn Station (4 minute walk)
PAVEMENT Symposium takes place at the center of it all- mid town Manhattan. Located at the intersection of Chelsea, Penn Station, Nomad, and Hudson Yards it's the perfect spot for our gathering.
Nearby Transit Details:
1 at 28 St Station (3 minute walk)
1, 2, 3, A, C, E at 34 St-Penn Station (4 minute walk)
N, Q, R, Q, B, D, F, M at 34 St-Herald Sq (8 minute walk)
NJ Path at 33rd Street (5 minute walk)
Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit at Penn Station (4 minute walk)
The PAVEMENT GROUP SHOW AT SOHO PHOTO GALLERY
The PAVEMENT Group Show Transitions from the street to the gallery wall. The PAVEMENT council will professionally curate process the most compelling images for a one day exhibition at the prestigious Soho Photo Gallery located in the Chelsea art district of Manhattan.
Thursday June 4th Artists Reception from 6 pm to 8pm.
539 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
The PAVEMENT Group Show Transitions from the street to the gallery wall. The PAVEMENT council will professionally curate process the most compelling images for a one day exhibition at the prestigious Soho Photo Gallery located in the Chelsea art district of Manhattan.
Thursday June 4th Artists Reception from 6 pm to 8pm.
539 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
PAVEMENT Portfolio Reviews
The opportunity to share your work and be inspired by other's work is a key component to the PAVEMENT ethos. Participants are highly encouraged to attend with work in print or learn about printing and bookmaking. We support the Print & Book as a way to present your work. You will get a chance for one on one portfolio reviews with PAVEMENT workshop leaders and guest reviewers.
The opportunity to share your work and be inspired by other's work is a key component to the PAVEMENT ethos. Participants are highly encouraged to attend with work in print or learn about printing and bookmaking. We support the Print & Book as a way to present your work. You will get a chance for one on one portfolio reviews with PAVEMENT workshop leaders and guest reviewers.
PAVEMENT Schedule
Thurs 9:00 AM
PAVEMENT Theory Day One: Inspiration (Presentations)
Opening Remarks David Brommer : Street Photography & The Camera
Meryl Meisler Presents: Street Walker - 70's & 80's NYC
Harvey Stein Presents: The Art of Street Photography & Photo Book Making
Suzanne Stein Presents: Show Me Something Pretty
Philip Penman presents: Just Because You Carry a Camera Does Not Mean You Get To Disconnect From Society
Steve Simon presents: From Moments to Meaning: Building a Personal Vision in Street Photography
PAVEMENT Panel
Vendor Room, Hands On Learning, Fujifilm Camera Raffle
Meryl Meisler Presents: Street Walker - 70's & 80's NYC
Harvey Stein Presents: The Art of Street Photography & Photo Book Making
Suzanne Stein Presents: Show Me Something Pretty
Philip Penman presents: Just Because You Carry a Camera Does Not Mean You Get To Disconnect From Society
Steve Simon presents: From Moments to Meaning: Building a Personal Vision in Street Photography
PAVEMENT Panel
Vendor Room, Hands On Learning, Fujifilm Camera Raffle
Thurs 6:00 PM
PAVEMENT Group Show
The PAVEMENT group show taking place SoHo Photo Gallery will serve as a survey of contemporary street photography, Curated by the PAVEMENT Council from PAVEMENT attendees.
Fri 9:00 AM
PAVEMENT Theory Day Two: Review
Group, One on One Portfolio Reviews and Focus Round Tables. This is your opportunity to share work and get vital feedback. Focus round tables will have topics such as; book publishing, leveraging social media, city specific street photo destinations and techniques. You'll get to know the work of fellow attendees and be part of the street photography community.
Fri 5:00 PM
PAVEMENT Workshop Meet Up
PAVEMENT Attendees signed up for workshops break into their respective groups and outline the workshop occurring over the weekend.
Sat 9:00 AM
PAVEMENT Day Three: Workshops Across NYC
"Hit the proverbial Pavement" - Spend the entire day with your PAVEMENT instructor making work in iconic NYC neighborhoods. See workshop section for further details about locations and instructional focus.
SUN 9:00 AM
PAVEMENT Day Four: Workshops Across NYC
The Workshops continue form morning to mid afternoon.
SUN 4:00 PM
PAVEMENT Day Four: PAVEMENT LAB
Cull & Edit in our classroom lab. Get real time feedback and share your stories and photographs.
PAVEMENT Workshops
The PAVEMENT workshops are designed as intensive, immersive experiences that bridge the gap between conceptual vision and practical execution. Limited to 8 Participants, each workshop follows a rigorous three-phase structure:
Friday Evening: The Pre-Meet
The weekend begins with an essential orientation and faculty introduction. This initial session serves to align your creative intent with the instructor’s specific methodology, establishing the technical and thematic goals for the days ahead.
Saturday & Sunday Morning: Field Sessions
Participants spend all of Saturday and Sunday morning on the street, engaging in active shooting sessions. During this time, the focus is on remaining flexible and adaptable to the urban environment while developing a heightened sensitivity to the human condition and rapidly changing societal narratives.
Sunday Afternoon: The PAVEMENT Lab
Following lunch on Sunday, all workshop tracks reconvene at the PAVEMENT Lab. This three-hour culling and editing intensive transitions from the street to the screen. Guided by the faculty, you will analyze your weekend’s work, learning to identify images with emotional depth and honest narrative. Participants are required to bring their own laptops to engage in this final, critical phase of the storytelling process.
Friday Evening: The Pre-Meet
The weekend begins with an essential orientation and faculty introduction. This initial session serves to align your creative intent with the instructor’s specific methodology, establishing the technical and thematic goals for the days ahead.
Saturday & Sunday Morning: Field Sessions
Participants spend all of Saturday and Sunday morning on the street, engaging in active shooting sessions. During this time, the focus is on remaining flexible and adaptable to the urban environment while developing a heightened sensitivity to the human condition and rapidly changing societal narratives.
Sunday Afternoon: The PAVEMENT Lab
Following lunch on Sunday, all workshop tracks reconvene at the PAVEMENT Lab. This three-hour culling and editing intensive transitions from the street to the screen. Guided by the faculty, you will analyze your weekend’s work, learning to identify images with emotional depth and honest narrative. Participants are required to bring their own laptops to engage in this final, critical phase of the storytelling process.
SAT & Sun 9:00 AM
Suzanne Stein : Beyond the Pretty: Social Realism in NYC
Social realism as well as classical street photography techniques are the focus in this two day intensive led by Suzanne Stein.
Saturday begins in the light and shadow filled, vibrant and celebrated destination neighborhood that is SoHo. Candid, movement oriented street work coupled with street portraiture if serendipitous opportunities arise during the session, approaching people and methods Suzanne uses to create unique portraits will be explored live on the street.
On Sunday, the workshop does an about face, shifting to the classic Hasidic neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Using environmental storytelling techniques and classic, candid street photography, the workshop will explore methods used to capture and preserve the character of a neighborhood while navigating the very real sensitivities involved with understanding boundaries and photographing people with care and respect while retaining the ability to effectively document people, place, and moment.
Saturday begins in the light and shadow filled, vibrant and celebrated destination neighborhood that is SoHo. Candid, movement oriented street work coupled with street portraiture if serendipitous opportunities arise during the session, approaching people and methods Suzanne uses to create unique portraits will be explored live on the street.
On Sunday, the workshop does an about face, shifting to the classic Hasidic neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Using environmental storytelling techniques and classic, candid street photography, the workshop will explore methods used to capture and preserve the character of a neighborhood while navigating the very real sensitivities involved with understanding boundaries and photographing people with care and respect while retaining the ability to effectively document people, place, and moment.
SAT & sun 9:00 AM
Steve Simon : The Personal Street: Turning Observation into Vision
Street photography is not about chasing moments. It is about recognizing what consistently draws you in and understanding why. In this workshop, Steve Simon presents a practical framework for developing a personal vision on the street. Through examples from his long-term projects and focused exercises, you’ll learn how to identify recurring subjects, emotional patterns, and visual tendencies in your work. We’ll examine how light, gesture, distance, and framing reveal your relationship to the scene—and how awareness turns scattered captures into intentional direction.
The workshop also addresses sequencing, visual consistency, and recurring motifs—how images gain strength when placed in dialogue with one another. A central focus is disciplined editing. Participants will see how removing 70 to 80 percent of their photographs often strengthens clarity and impact. Attendees will leave with practical tools to refine their vision, build cohesive bodies of work, and edit with confidence, purpose and discipline.
The workshop also addresses sequencing, visual consistency, and recurring motifs—how images gain strength when placed in dialogue with one another. A central focus is disciplined editing. Participants will see how removing 70 to 80 percent of their photographs often strengthens clarity and impact. Attendees will leave with practical tools to refine their vision, build cohesive bodies of work, and edit with confidence, purpose and discipline.
SAT & sun 9:00 AM
Meryl Meisler : Street Photography in Brooklyn's Bushwick Neighborhood
Spend a weekend immersed in the raw, electric streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn with legendary street photographer Meryl Meisler.
Drawing on decades of experience photographing Bushwick, by day as a public-school art teacher in the 1980s and ’90s, and again in the 21st century within its vibrant arts community and nightclubs, Meryl guides participants through the art of seeing, anticipating, and responding to the unpredictable theater of the street.
This intimate, hands-on workshop welcomes photographers of all levels and explores street photography as both observation and self-expression. Participants will walk and photograph together through Bushwick’s diverse neighborhoods, visit historic sites, explore public art and local culture, and learn to work confidently and ethically in public spaces. Supportive group discussions and critiques are included, along with an optional visit to a renowned Bushwick nightclub. Meryl’s teaching style is generous, direct, and deeply informed by her long career as both an artist and educator.
Drawing on decades of experience photographing Bushwick, by day as a public-school art teacher in the 1980s and ’90s, and again in the 21st century within its vibrant arts community and nightclubs, Meryl guides participants through the art of seeing, anticipating, and responding to the unpredictable theater of the street.
This intimate, hands-on workshop welcomes photographers of all levels and explores street photography as both observation and self-expression. Participants will walk and photograph together through Bushwick’s diverse neighborhoods, visit historic sites, explore public art and local culture, and learn to work confidently and ethically in public spaces. Supportive group discussions and critiques are included, along with an optional visit to a renowned Bushwick nightclub. Meryl’s teaching style is generous, direct, and deeply informed by her long career as both an artist and educator.
SAT & sun 9:00 AM
Harvey Stein : Endless Coney Island
Explore the endless photographic possibilities that the Coney Island boardwalk, amusement park, beach and neighborhood have to offer. Shoot people of all sizes, shapes, colors, languages and behaviors. Enjoy the rich smell of sand and surf. Be amazed at the amusements and photograph the vibrant activities and excitements of this stimulating area. Feast on a Nathan’s hotdog or two while surveying the scene. Topics explored during our two days at Coney include methods of approaching strangers, overcoming shyness, candid versus confrontational shooting techniques, ways of posing and interacting with people, controlling light and exposure in broad open spaces, and issues of self-expression and objectivity.
This workshop is for photographers who wish to begin or improve their street photography. It is an opportunity to work with a very dedicated teacher and photographer and come away with a greater understanding of not only how to advance your photography but also to be inspired to find new ways of personalizing your approach and bringing greater meaning to your images.
This workshop is for photographers who wish to begin or improve their street photography. It is an opportunity to work with a very dedicated teacher and photographer and come away with a greater understanding of not only how to advance your photography but also to be inspired to find new ways of personalizing your approach and bringing greater meaning to your images.
sun 3:00-7:00 pM
PAVEMENT Lab : The Edit & The Narrative (all workshop attendees)
The PAVEMENT Lab is a three-hour intensive culling and editing session designed to transform your weekend’s captures into a cohesive visual story. In this collaborative environment, the faculty moves from the street to the screen, guiding you through the critical process of selecting images that possess true honesty and emotional depth.
The Lab focuses on developing a keen eye for the human condition—learning to move past hesitation to find a straightforward, unpretentious narrative within your work. You will refine your ability to remain flexible and adaptable while gaining a concrete understanding of how to document rapidly changing societal conditions. Participants should bring their laptop and be prepared to dive into their raw files to find the definitive voice within the frame.
The Lab focuses on developing a keen eye for the human condition—learning to move past hesitation to find a straightforward, unpretentious narrative within your work. You will refine your ability to remain flexible and adaptable while gaining a concrete understanding of how to document rapidly changing societal conditions. Participants should bring their laptop and be prepared to dive into their raw files to find the definitive voice within the frame.
PAVEMENT Tiered Ticketing
PAVEMENT Offers three ticket levels to for all budget and interests levels.
THE LECTURE PASS: Enjoy the first day of Slide Show's and Lectures as well as an invitation to the opening night gallery reception of the PAVEMENT Group Show.
Thursday June 4th All Day Cost $179.00
SOLD OUT
THE PAVEMENT PRO: For those who want to be inspired, and get vital feedback in the form of portfolio and work review. This ticket Includes the first day of lectures in VIP seating, gallery reception, and admission to Friday's review program (minimum of two one-on-one portfolio reviews). PLUS, full access to the Focus Roundtable discussions. In addition, this ticket includes the opportunity to submit 3 images into the PAVEMENT Group show (cut off 5/25) and PAVEMENT Pro-Swag Bag plus 3 camera raffle tickets.
June 4th and 5th (Thursday & Friday) All Day Cost $499
THE FULL EXPERIENCE: The Pro Ticket plus weekend workshop "Golden Ticket". This is your opportunity to study with the PAVEMENT Council of Speakers.
You may pick from one of four weekend workshops guided by:
Harvey Stein Endless Coney Island
Meryl Meisler Street Photography in Brooklyn's Bushwick Neighborhood
Steve Simon The Personal Street: Turning Observation into Vision
Suzanne Stein Beyond the Pretty: Social Realism in NYC
Sunday Afternoon PAVEMENT Lab
June 4 - 7th, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (includes one lunch or dinner)
Cost $1999. Includes 5 camera raffle tickets.
Thursday June 4th All Day Cost $179.00
SOLD OUT
THE PAVEMENT PRO: For those who want to be inspired, and get vital feedback in the form of portfolio and work review. This ticket Includes the first day of lectures in VIP seating, gallery reception, and admission to Friday's review program (minimum of two one-on-one portfolio reviews). PLUS, full access to the Focus Roundtable discussions. In addition, this ticket includes the opportunity to submit 3 images into the PAVEMENT Group show (cut off 5/25) and PAVEMENT Pro-Swag Bag plus 3 camera raffle tickets.
June 4th and 5th (Thursday & Friday) All Day Cost $499
THE FULL EXPERIENCE: The Pro Ticket plus weekend workshop "Golden Ticket". This is your opportunity to study with the PAVEMENT Council of Speakers.
You may pick from one of four weekend workshops guided by:
Harvey Stein Endless Coney Island
Meryl Meisler Street Photography in Brooklyn's Bushwick Neighborhood
Steve Simon The Personal Street: Turning Observation into Vision
Suzanne Stein Beyond the Pretty: Social Realism in NYC
Sunday Afternoon PAVEMENT Lab
June 4 - 7th, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (includes one lunch or dinner)
Cost $1999. Includes 5 camera raffle tickets.
FUJIFILM X-E5 Camera Raffle
One Lucky PAVEMENT attendee at the end of the first day, June 4th will walk out with this camera and lens in our raffle.
PAVEMENT is dedicated to fostering an inclusive community that welcomes photographers from all backgrounds and stages of their creative career. We believe the future of street photography depends on fresh perspectives and accessible education. To support the next generation of visual storytellers, by offering a 25% discount for students, ensuring that the wisdom of our lead instructors and the prestige of the NYC gallery scene are within reach for those currently honing their craft.
email: [email protected] to submit your application for the student discount. We require a valid student id from a college or trade school. Once verified we will invoice you the discounted rate.
email: [email protected] to submit your application for the student discount. We require a valid student id from a college or trade school. Once verified we will invoice you the discounted rate.
Follow PAVEMENT Updates
the Inaugural PAVEMENT symposium is being rolled out with monthly announcements.
Phase One: PAVEMENT Dates Released! <We're Here>
Phase Two: Speakers & Sponsors Released
Phase Three: Schedule and Locations Released
Phase Four: Registration OPEN
Phase Five: PAVEMENT Gallery Announcements
Phase Six: Hit the PAVEMENT!
Phase One: PAVEMENT Dates Released! <We're Here>
Phase Two: Speakers & Sponsors Released
Phase Three: Schedule and Locations Released
Phase Four: Registration OPEN
Phase Five: PAVEMENT Gallery Announcements
Phase Six: Hit the PAVEMENT!
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PAVEMENT NYC COUNTDOWN
Join us on June 04 - June 7, 2026
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