...my perception creates a personal reality...
If I think, I lose it.
I need to feel the pressure of the moment.
Marc Dessi – street photographer based in Cologne - Germany
I’ve been addicted to the raw, unscripted rhythm of urban life.
What pulls me in? Freedom! To get the answer to a question I didn't ask. Just instinct and my camera. I dive into the chaos, not to control it, but to find that blink-and-you-miss-it moment when everything aligns – action, motion, mood. That fraction of a second that feels like truth.
I’m drawn to the absurd, the unnoticed, the beautiful mess of everyday life.
I am not interested in the chaos of the city itself, but rather in the moment when it falls into order—that one moment.
This tension between unrest and composition creates emotional intensity for me.
No rules, no labels.
Style? I avoid it on purpose. Labels box you in. I’m after independence – to see, to feel, to shoot whatever moves me. That’s the true constant in my work.
Selected publications and exhibitions:
puplished in LeMagazine 016/2026
Street Macadam BnW Awards 2026 - editiors pic
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 01/2026
picture of the month Leica Store Düsseldorf 11/2025
part of the "Mütterschaft" exhibition in Kulturpalast Dresden 11/2025
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 11/2025
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 11/2025
part of Venice Photo LAB 2025 exhibition
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 10/2025
Puplished in frayme Magazine Special Edition: Street & Documentary Photography Vol.1 2025
Part of TREVISO PHOTOGRAPHIC FESTIVAL 2025 - Moments of life exhibition
TDM Awards 2025 - Best 100
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 07/2025
part of the exhibition Meet and Street 2025 Dresden
Street Macadam Awards 2025 - editors pick
puplished at Focus Magazine
Urban Photo Awards 2025 - Semi Finalist
puplished in the great Street Photography Mixtape Book 2025
2 x honorable Mentions BNW features photo award 2025
part of the Oslo Street Photography Festival 2025 exhibition
finalist Oslo Street Photography Festival 2025
semi finalist at Pure Streetphotography award 2025
puplished in LeMagazine 013/2025
puplished at streetzines.com
published in best 100 street photography - Amazing Photos
part of the Deichdielen exhibition in Hamburg 2024
part of the Blickwinkelfestival exhibition in Cologne 2024
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 05/2024
Weekly 52 Podcast vol. 377
honorable Mentions Exposure one Awards - category street
published in Blickwinkel Magazin Issue 05/2023
gold Medal - Music / Dance & Events category of the International B&W Photography Awards 2024
puplished in 256 Photo Magazin Nr. 16
published in Blickwinkel Magazin Issue 03/2023
part of the "Fathers and Sons" exhibition in Kulturpalast Dresden 11/2023
published in the B&W Minimalism Magazin annual Book 2022
LeMagazine 007 - guest article about bnw photography
Leica Master Shoot - Leica Fotografie International 08/2023
Soul of Street Nr. 48: guest article about the Meet and Street 2023
Leica Entusiast Podcast 08/2022
puplished in LeMagazine 03/2022
puplished in DOCU Magazine - DOCU Book vol 4.
puplished in Minimalism Magazin Issue 37
puplished in 256 Photo Magazin Nr.12
winner 256photo readers choice award Architecture and overal readers award in 2021.
puplished in 256 Photo Magazin Nr.10
puplished in 256 Photo Magazin Nr.11
I am not interested in what I can imagine.
I am drawn to what only reality can produce.
I don’t follow trends.
And I don’t try to belong.
My work is shaped by what I let in —
what I read, what I hear, and the people I stay close to.
I don’t believe street photography still holds the same value as a document.
In a fast-moving world, it becomes something else.
Not to capture moments — but to stop them, against their nature, if only for a fraction of a second.
after all of this
...I just press the shutter...
