passerby.org
Names that carry an image are worth more than names that carry a description, and this one evokes an entire genre in three syllables.
The passerby is street photography’s central figure: the stranger caught mid-step who gives the picture its life and its ethical complications simultaneously. It’s also the polite legal term used in discussions of consent and public photography, which means an organisation working on those questions inherits vocabulary the field already uses.
That suits a street photography collective, a magazine, a print archive, a competition, or an education project.
On the .org it opens further, toward community organisations, urban studies projects, and anything concerned with public space and the people moving through it. The word is quietly humane, which suits mission-driven work.
One compound word, one spelling, no hyphen.
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