← All communities
Reddit community

r/streetphotographyNSFW

Street Photography: photos in the streets, freaks in the sheets.. A subreddit to share your street photography work and discuss the technique, gear and philosophies behind shooting street. Founded 2010 · 518.1K members

517.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 26.6K upvotes, which works out to 51 per 1,000 members.

51peak upvotes per 1,000 members
517.9Kmembers
26.6Kbest post
832most comments
405posts we track

Open r/streetphotography on Reddit ↗

What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 43%
Gallery 54% Image 43% Text 1% Video 1% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Street scenes from North Korea

↑ 26.6K 💬 754 gallery 2025

Moved to Chicago 2 years ago.

↑ 26.1K 💬 654 gallery 2025

Houston, Texas 2020-2022

↑ 16.5K 💬 513 gallery 2025

Taken at the Lincoln Memorial

↑ 12.8K 💬 160 image 2025

NYC After Dark

↑ 10.9K 💬 211 gallery 2026

Hello! I’m a street photographer shooting primarily in NYC. Here are some of my favorite shots I’ve taken over the years.

↑ 10.2K 💬 296 gallery 2025

Parallel Lives on the Rooftops of Hong Kong by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze

↑ 9.9K 💬 151 gallery 2026

I’m really happy with how this shot turned out, but only one like on Instagram is a bit disheartening. Is it shit?

↑ 8.2K 💬 345 image 2025

Two weeks in Italy. My first time focusing on strangers .

↑ 7.8K 💬 268 gallery 2025

Rain on Houston St

↑ 7.8K 💬 49 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/streetphotography, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/streetphotography?
r/streetphotography ("Street Photography: photos in the streets, freaks in the sheets.") describes itself this way: A subreddit to share your street photography work and discuss the technique, gear and philosophies behind shooting street. It was founded in 2010 and has 518.1K members.
How many members does r/streetphotography have?
r/streetphotography has about 517.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 26.6K upvotes, which is 51 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/streetphotography?
"Street scenes from North Korea" reached 26.6K upvotes and 754 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/streetphotography.
What subreddits are similar to r/streetphotography?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/streetphotography?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are gallery posts and 43% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/streetphotography?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 03:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/streetphotography?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/streetphotography has 5.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 273 posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/streetphotography, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.