Runaway snakes and scooting pups: surreal street photography – in pictures

Untitled: Tokyo, Japan

Serendipity is the core of street photography and Eyeshot magazine’s Street Freakouts issue pays homage to it, with a collection of images turning ordinary moments of life into something iconic and extraordinary. Consider it a raw, unfiltered dive into the eccentric, the surreal, and the beautifully bizarre moments of urban life. Pre-order Eyeshot magazine’s limited-edition Issue #17 (available until 31 March)

Photograph: Joji Sasaki

Snakeskin Shoes: Portobello Road, London

Marco Savarese, curator at Eyeshot publications, writes: ‘Visual coincidences create unthinkable narratives in our streets. An albino snake sliding from above meets its artificial representation in a pair of shoes, creating a visual loop where nature and fashion merge’

Photograph: Becky Frances

Line Dog: Xindian, Taiwan

‘In urban chaos, necessity generates solutions that defy common logic. A motorised procession becomes a theatre of the absurd when a pristine Bichon, regally arranged in a blue crate, leads this singular urban parade’

Photograph: TC Lin

Marktplatz: Karlsruhe, Germany

‘The subversion of spaces becomes visual poetry when a figure in red transforms a mound of dirt into an improvised urban beach. The construction site loses its original function to become a stage for a gesture as simple as it is subversive’

Photograph: Rainer Nowotny

Kostromskaya: Moscow, Russia

Street Freakouts explores the moments that make cities pulse with unpredictability: the juxtapositions that boggle the mind, the encounters that defy logic and the absurdities that remind us that the streets are a theatre of infinite possibility

Photograph: Ksenia

Yellow: Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Street Freakouts is not just a collection of curious images, but a testimony to the vitality and unpredictability of life in the city, where everyday scenes become surreal living tableaux

Photograph: Chris van Dolleweerd

In the Bushes: Nunawading, Melbourne, Australia

Each page reveals a new moment of urban spontaneity: from the most bizarre human interactions to visual coincidences that seem orchestrated by fate itself

Photograph: Mike Reed

Untitled: Tottenham Court Road, London

This issue captures the unscripted chaos of the streets – where reality bends and coincidences turn uncanny

Photograph: Damian Chrobak

Twins: Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey

This issue of the magazine is about documenting the raw, unpolished poetry of human existence in public spaces

Photograph: Mehmet Esen

Cementerio de Santa Isabel: Madrid, Spain

It’s a tribute to the moments where the familiar fractures into the surreal, where ordinary life-glitches become most visible

Photograph: Martín Molinero Aranjuez

Manezhnaya Square: St Petersburg, Russia

Cities are not just built environments but living, breathing organisms brimming with contradictions and wonder

Photograph: Ilya Shtutsa

Daydreaming: Bangkok Airport, Thailand

In a world obsessed with curation and perfection, Street Freakouts is a celebration of the unfiltered, the chaotic and the delightfully strange

Photograph: Patrick Wendt