Street Photography nominee

This series was taken over several years in Paris and New York. The topic arose more or less by chance: I noticed that on one or the other older photo people were still smoking while this almost no longer occurs in newer photos. The reason is that smoking in public spaces is becoming increasingly taboo and has therefore largely disappeared from the photographer's view. Today the smoking rate is falling and smokers are sent outside everywhere or isolated in separate smoking rooms. But, for a long time, smokers were present in large numbers in the cityscape; the cigarette or cigar in the corner of the mouth was considered an accessory - it almost created identity and style - not at least through countless Hollywood films: For much of film history, the cigarette was part of it and a symbol of masculinity and rebellion. Before the blue haze has finally cleared away, I have put together a little story of smoking. The selected images show smoking strollers, connoisseurs and addicts in every place - in a bar, on the street, in the backyard, in the park. Therewith I would like to create a photographic monument to this "dying out species".

For Jörg Rubbert, city life and the city as a developing urban organism are among his preferred photographic subjects. He is represented in numerous exhibitions and publications on topics of contemporary photography - with a focus on Paris, New York and the American South.
He represents the humanistic direction in photography, which focuses on people's social environment. His photographs have been shown at exhibitions and photo festivals at home and abroad and published in numerous (print) media, including CNN, ZEIT, FAZ, WELT, Tagesspiegel, PHOTO International, Photo Klassik, PHOTOGRAPHIE. He lives as a freelance photographer in Berlin (Germany).