British, Austrian and Irish street and 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, Buzzfeed, Slate.fr, 6Mois, 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.
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 recent finalist at Miami Street Photography Festival, Italian Street Photo Festival, StreetFoto San Francisco, and London Street Photography Festival.
