STIR GENTLY...SERVE BURNING!
It’s not a magazine. It’s a punch in the face.
Every page is a bite. Every issue, a bruise that stays — with a fierce and sensual design, and a curatorial eye that selects only images capable of living between underground and fashion, street and set, desire and disillusionment.
TheStreetSoup
is pulp, fashion, irony, and desecration — all in the same spoon.
It’s beauty putting on makeup in front of the mirror and forgetting to take off the mask.
TheStreetSoup is a visual soup a boiling mix of disturbing, elegant, nauseating images, collected from around the world like fragments of a civilization putting on makeup before collapsing.
Each issue gathers shots from the filthiest and most incandescent corners of the planet:
the ghettos of New York and Los Angeles, the toxic nights of Berlin, the abandoned motels of Nevada, the dumps of Manila, the alleys of Naples, the African deserts where luxury is only a mirage.
Where humanity barely survives chaos, we find the image.
Where beauty doesn’t wear makeup, we press the shutter.
Every photograph is a scream dressed like an editorial — a visual blow that burns hotter than any Vogue spread.
Our pages tell the story of the toxic glamour of modernity: surgery as language, obsession with image as religion, sex as commodity, rebellion as aesthetic.
Each photograph is a declaration of war on glossy mediocrity; each editorial, a sharp stab, a satirical cry against the filtered perfection of social media.
Our aesthetic is raw, ironic, deliberately disturbing.
There is no glamour without pain, no light without irony.
Our pages smell of synthetic perfume, fresh paint, and unwanted truth.
Because
TheStreetSoup
doesn’t just tell photography — it tells the world after photography:
the one where everything is a pose, identity is a filter, and the only sincerity left is the kind that can’t be photoshopped.
Our aesthetic is raw, ironic, deliberately disturbing.
There is no glamour without pain, no light without irony.
Our pages smell of synthetic perfume, fresh paint, and unwanted truth.
TheStreetSoupMag is
Chanel N°5 mixed with gasoline and tears.
It’s luxury burning in trash bins, beauty that doesn’t wash its hands, reportage disguised as advertising, the aesthetic pornography of survival.
We make no distinctions — fashion, war, sex, religion, irony, pain — everything ends up in the same pot,
and keeps boiling until it explodes.
We are pulp, pop, glam,and catastrophic.
Acid colors, violent flashes, theatrical compositions, lights that smell like motel rooms.
We love the contrast between the red of blood and the red of lipstick, between sweaty skin and glossy latex, between violence and vanity.
Every image is a lie that tells more truth than a news report.
Every shot is a wound covered in glitter.
We are radical but responsible — consent and dignity come first.
Zero hate, zero exploitation.
Transgression only makes sense when it’s intelligent.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for
photographers who breathe asphalt and paranoia
who shoot out of necessity, not vanity.
Artists able to look at the world without filters, without fear, without aesthetic morality.
Those who can tell chaos with a camera, a smartphone, or the remains of an expired roll of film.
We want
images that don’t ask for permission, that don’t try to please but to be remembered.
Photographs that smell like flesh and concrete, irony and fear, truth and spectacle.
We accept
35mm, medium format, digital, on-camera flash, collage, mixed media, AI.
We don’t care about the tool — only about
visual power.
Not pornography, but
poetry of collapse.
Not denunciation, but
aesthetic testimony.
Not posing, but
presence.
TheStreetSoup Mag is curated and organized by TheStreetSoup Milano
Founded in the heart of Milan, TheStreetSoup was born as an independent curatorial space dedicated to photography and contemporary art, quickly evolving into an international platform that brings together talent scouting, visual experimentation, hybrid languages, and urban culture.
We have curated exhibitions that have gained wide international recognition, including:FACES, a tribute to maestro Maurizio Galimberti; New York State of Mind, featuring street photography icon Richard Sandler; Monochrome , a digital exhibition in partnership with Samsung;
…and many other projects that have established our role within the contemporary photography scene.
Magazine Specifications
Publication Frequency: every 40 days, starting from
January 2026
Length 300 pages per issue
Format 24 × 30 cm
Binding hardcover
Paper 130 g/m² matte coated
Printing full color, high-definition offset
Distribution
TheStreetSoupMag is distributed through a
curated network of independent bookstores, newsstands, and concept stores in:
Italy, London, New York, Paris, Madrid, Zurich, and other selected cities worldwide.
Each location is personally selected by TheStreetSoup for its cultural relevance and alignment with the magazine’s editorial identity.
The magazine is also sent free of charge to a network of partner galleries and curatorial spaces, both in Italy and abroad.
A complete list of bookstores, galleries, and newsstands where TheStreetSoupMag will be available for purchase will be published on our official website starting January 2026, so that every reader can easily find the nearest point of sale or alternatively, order it directly through our online store.
Partnership Disclaimer
TheStreetSoupMag is an independent editorial project created by TheStreetSoup a visual platform and curatorial collective that collaborates as an official partner of Nikon Italia.
While Nikon is not directly involved in the editorial production or management of the magazine, it supports TheStreetSoup as a strategic and technical partner, contributing to the conceptual development, visual research, and promotion of photographic culture through joint curatorial initiatives and projects.
The creation, editing, and publishing of
TheStreetSoup Magazine are entirely managed and directed by TheStreetSoup,
the founder and official publisher of the publication.
The use of Nikon’s logos and trademarks fully complies with the brand’s official guidelines and appears exclusively in connection with shared projects, exhibitions, and editorial collaborations developed alongside TheStreetSoup.
THESTREETSOUP MAG
OFFICIAL GUIDELINES
Beautifully Brutal. Disturbing and Fucking Real.
1. EDITORIAL VISION
TheStreetSoupMag is not a magazine to flip through.
It’s a collective visual shock — a soup of raw, ironic, disturbing, elegant, and disarming images gathered from every corner of the world.
It’s an atlas of humanity after photography, where the only rule is:
one image can say everything.
Not fashion, not reportage, not art — but all of it together, mixed, crumpled, digested, and spat back onto paper.
Each issue is a mosaic of visions.
Each author, a fragment of truth.
2. WHAT WE PUBLISH
One single photograph per photographer.
No series, no projects, no storytelling.
Only raw, unfiltered images.
Photographers may submit up to
10 photographs, but only
one will be chosen, curated, and published.
That image will become their voice within TheStreetSoupMag: a visual shard, a clean hit, stripped of context.
No frames, no explanations.
Just pure photography —
disturbing and fucking real.
3. HOW THE FORMAT WORKS
The printed magazine is a purely visual publication:
- 300 pages, 24×30 cm format, hardcover, 130 g matte coated paper.
- No long descriptions — only a short caption or title under each image (max 100 characters).
- Each image occupies a single page: one photo, one author, one hit.
The
website is the digital extension of the magazine —
the second part of the project, where every image published in print
is later accompanied by:
- a description or statement by the author,
- a short curatorial text by TheStreetSoup,
- technical or narrative details.
The result is a
hybrid and complementary project:
paper shows, digital tells.
4. SUBMISSION RULES
You may send:
- 1 to 10 photographs (JPG or TIFF, minimum 2500 px on the long side)
- a short caption or title (max 100 characters)
- your name, city, and contact details
We don’t ask for concepts or long texts.
We care about
visual impact, not explanations.
All images are selected, edited, and sequenced by TheStreetSoup’s curatorial team.
The selection process is
instinctive, ruthless, emotional.
We’re not looking for perfection — only for
presence.
5. Image Rights & Credits
Every published image is always accompanied by the photographer’s full credits inside the printed magazine.
All submitted photographs remain the exclusive intellectual property of their respective authors.
By submitting your work, you grant
TheStreetSoupMag
the
non-exclusive right to use and reproduce your selected image
solely for the issue in which it appears,
and for
editorial and promotional purposes directly connected to that publication, including website, press releases, social channels, and exhibitions related to TheStreetSoupMag.
No image will ever be sold, licensed, or reused for other purposes without the author’s explicit written consent.
6. Participation and Selection Policy
Each author may be featured in
multiple issues of TheStreetSoupMag,
although we generally prefer
not to repeat the same photographer for more than two or three consecutive issues.
This means that a photographer’s next appearance might occur
in a later edition,
depending on the curatorial flow of each publication.
Whenever a photographer is selected for a new issue,
they will receive an
official confirmation email from our editorial team.
Every published image is always accompanied by the photographer’s full credits inside the printed magazine.
All submitted photographs
remain the exclusive intellectual property of their respective authors.
By submitting your work, you grant TheStreetSoupMag
the
right to use and reproduce your selected image only for the issue in which it appears,
as well as for related
editorial and promotional purposes directly connected to that publication.
7. Do you pay photographers for their submissions?
TheStreetSoupMag does not pay for images.
TheStreetSoupMag is an
international high-profile publication curated by
TheStreetSoup Art Gallery,
a gallery of international relevance with deep connections within the global photography and art scene.
We do not buy photographs, nor do we offer monetary compensation for publication.
What we offer instead is far more valuable:
the
opportunity to appear in a curated, collectible magazine read and collected by
art collectors, curators, gallery owners, critics, and professionals in the contemporary photography world.
Each issue of TheStreetSoupMag is a
limited-edition object,
a showcase of visual identity and credibility that cannot be purchased.
In return, we offer every selected photographer something meaningful:
a
technical and artistic review of their selected image — a full one-page professional critique written by TheStreetSoup’s editorial and curatorial team.
This review is offered
free of charge, and you may use it for your
portfolio, exhibitions, website, or professional presentations.
8. ETHICS & CURATION
We are radical but responsible.
Every photograph must respect the
dignity and consent of the subjects portrayed.
We reject pornography, hate speech, and exploitation.
Transgression only makes sense when it’s
intelligent and necessary.
Not pornography, but
poetry of collapse.
Not denunciation, but
aesthetic testimony.
9. DISTRIBUTION
TheStreetSoupMag is released every
40 days, starting
January 2026.
Each issue contains
300 pages of pure printed imagery.
Distributed through a
curated network of bookstores, concept stores, and newsstands
in
Italy, London, New York, Paris, Madrid, Zurich, and other international cities.
A
complete list of bookstores and partner galleries
will be published on our official website starting
January 2026,
so every reader will know where to find it — or order it directly online.
Copies are also
sent free of charge to partner galleries
that collaborate with TheStreetSoup in Italy and abroad.
10. PARTNERSHIP
TheStreetSoupMag was born from the TheStreetSoup project,
an official
partner of Nikon Italia, which participates as a
technical and strategic partner.
Nikon is not involved in the editorial direction or production of the magazine,
but collaborates in the conceptual development and promotion of photographic culture
through shared curatorial projects and initiatives.
The use of the Nikon logo follows the brand’s official guidelines
and is strictly connected to joint initiatives developed with TheStreetSoup.
11. PHILOSOPHY
It’s not a magazine. It’s a punch in the face.
Every page is a bite.
Every issue, a bruise that stays.
TheStreetSoupMag doesn’t want to please you.
It wants to
stay under your skin.
TheStreetSoup
Via Maurizio Gonzaga 7
20123 Milano (Italy)
P.IVA 12456840961
REA MI - 2663516