15 March 2026
I was invited by RICOH IMAGING to speak at the annual UK Photography & Video Show, which was held in Birmingham this time. At the Ricoh Booth I held two talks and presented my GR work. Thank you to everyone that came to my talk and all the people I had conversations with! I see you again next year :-) Below are some impressions from the weekend (big thanks to my friend Leo for taking photos of my talk). All taken with Ricoh GR cameras of course (GR IV Monochrome & GR IIIx).
17 November 2025
I was invited to speak at the Romanian Visual Awards 2025 in Bucharest. An annual photography festival that is run by Romania's biggest online photography store, F64. I had absolute freedom to talk about anything I want and so I chose to do an introduction to street photography with a new presentation I titled "The Seven Lives of a Street Photographer". With examples of historic street photography and mixing in my own street photography work, I introduced different characters within the genre...
27 May 2025
From May 23rd - May 25th I attended the second annual Oslo Street Photo Festival 2025 as one of seven speakers. This was the first time that I physically attended a street photography festival as a speaker (I have joined the Mexico Street Photo Festival 2024 as a speaker but had to do my presentation via Zoom Call...). As a self taught and unpublished (in the traditional sense that I haven't published monographs yet) street photographer, I don't take these opportunities to present myself and my...
News post · 13 March 2025
I'm excited to announce that I was invited to speak at the Oslo Street Photo Festival 2025! This is the second edition of this new street photography festival and it will be held in May 23-24. A full list of speakers, the program and tickets here: https://oslospc.com/ospf25
News post · 05 March 2025
I will be speaking at the Photography & Video Show in London! Find me at the RICOH IMAGING Booth on Saturday & Sunday. For both days I will be giving a morning talk (11AM) and an afternoon talk (4PM). Content of my presentation is going to be my "All Things" GR presentation which is about five stories I photographed with my GR's since becoming a GR Ambassador in 2013. Looking forward seeing many of you there! More Info on the Photography Show: https://www.photographyshow.com/
24 October 2024
I was invited by RICOH IMAGING to give presentations at Salon De La Photo in Paris from 11th - 12th October, 2024. My presentation was about my projects I photographed with the Ricoh GR System. Since becoming a GR Ambassador in 2013, I have been using my GR‘s for almost anything that I wanted to document. For Salon De La Photo I worked out a brand new presentation that I call „The All Things Camera.“ Inspired by a quote from Gary Winnogrand („All Things Are Photographable“). It...
24 September 2024
In september I joined another GR Cities event in Stockholm. GR Cities is an Event Series by RICOH IMAGING that serves to connect the local GR community and learn from existing users of the brand. My role during these events is to produce a video report and engage with the community. This time I also gave a presentation that I was preparing for another event. It was my first time in Stockholm. A great city for street photography! I only wished I could have stayed longer… Overall it was another...
20 September 2024
How lucky I am to be living in Hamburg, Germany. Is what I thought when I heard about the upcoming Retrospective of the influential (I should probably say THE most influential) Street & Documentary Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. This was the first time in 20 Years that the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation has provided original Prints for a proper retrospective. I had the opportunity to join a guided tour through the Exhibition through the Photography Organistion FREELENS, which I am a...
06 March 2024
During my last visit of the Luxembourg Street Photography Festival in 2023 (which is now called "Light Leak Festival"), I was invited to be a guest on the Luxembourg Street Photography Collective's Podcast. We talked about my street photography journey, why I left the city and how my approach to candid photography changed in the countryside. Enjoy.
Samuel Lintaro Hopf
Photographer & Filmmaker
based in Hamburg, Germany.
