Paul Outerbridge
Paul Outerbridge was born in 1896 in New York City, into a family of comfortable means that encouraged his early interest in art and design. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and served briefly in the Canadian Royal Flying Corps and the United States Army during the First World War. Upon […]
Read MorePaul Graham
Paul Graham was born in 1956 in Stafford, a quiet market town in the English Midlands, and grew up in an era when British photography was largely divided between the black-and-white social documentary tradition and the colour work of commercial advertising. Graham would spend his career dismantling that division, demonstrating through book after book that […]
Read MorePatrick Zachmann
Patrick Zachmann was born in 1955 in Choisy-le-Roi, a suburb south of Paris, into a family whose Jewish heritage had been obscured by the traumas of the Second World War. His grandparents had survived the Holocaust, but the family seldom spoke of their origins, and Zachmann grew up in an atmosphere of deliberate forgetting. This […]
Read MoreOtto Steinert
Otto Steinert was born in 1915 in Saarbrücken, in the Saar region of Germany that would change national sovereignty several times during his lifetime. He studied medicine at the universities of Munich, Marburg, and Berlin, qualifying as a physician in 1939, and served as a military doctor during the Second World War. But photography had […]
Read MoreOtto Snoek
Otto Snoek is a Dutch contemporary photographer whose work occupies a distinctive space between documentary observation and poetic interpretation. Working primarily in the Netherlands, Snoek brings to the familiar landscapes, interiors, and domestic scenes of his home country an eye that is simultaneously precise and dreamlike, finding in the flat Dutch terrain and its distinctive […]
Read MoreNobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki was born in 1940 in the Minowa district of Tokyo, near the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, and the geography of his birth would prove prophetic. He grew up in a neighbourhood saturated with the history of desire, entertainment, and the floating world, and from his earliest years he absorbed the visual culture of a […]
Read MoreNikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee was born Lee Seung-Hee in 1970 in the small town of Kye-chang, South Korea. She studied photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul before moving to New York in 1994 to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, followed by graduate studies at New York University. It was in New York — that great […]
Read MoreNicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1947 and grew up in a middle-class family in the suburbs. He studied American literature at the University of Michigan before turning to photography, earning his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1974 under the tutelage of Beaumont Newhall. It was there that Nixon committed […]
Read MoreNaomi Harris
Naomi Harris is a Canadian documentary photographer based in Toronto whose work has consistently been drawn to the margins of North American culture — the communities, rituals, and gathering places where people shed their everyday inhibitions and construct alternative versions of themselves. Her photographs are characterised by their vivid colour, their unflinching intimacy, and their […]
Read MoreNadav Kander
Nadav Kander was born in Tel Aviv in 1961 to South African parents of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, and the family moved to Johannesburg when he was still a child. Growing up under apartheid, Kander developed an early awareness of the way power structures shape the visible world — who builds, who is displaced, whose presence is […]
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