Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield was born in 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Angeles, a city whose culture of surfaces, aspiration, and reinvention would become the central subject of her life’s work. Her father was a professor and her mother worked in education, and the family lived in Venice Beach, a neighbourhood where affluence […]
Read MoreLászló Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy was born in 1895 in the small town of Bácsborsód in southern Hungary, the son of a farming family. His father abandoned the family when Moholy-Nagy was young, and he was raised by an uncle in the town of Mohács, whose name he later adopted as part of his own. He studied law […]
Read MoreLars Tunbjörk
Lars Tunbjörk was born in 1956 in Borås, a small textile manufacturing city in western Sweden, a place whose provincial ordinariness would haunt and inform his work throughout his life. He grew up in a working-class family and came to photography through newspaper journalism, working as a press photographer for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter […]
Read MoreLarry Burrows
Larry Burrows was born Henry Frank Leslie Burrows in 1926 in London, the son of a railway worker who raised his family in the modest terraced streets of the city’s north. His childhood coincided with the upheavals of the Depression and the gathering clouds of war, and he left school at sixteen to take a […]
Read MoreKaren Knor
Karen Knorr was born in 1954 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to an American father and a Puerto Rican mother, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, before moving to England in the 1970s. This transnational upbringing gave her an outsider’s perspective on British culture that would prove invaluable when she began photographing the […]
Read MoreJulian Germain
Julian Germain was born in 1962 in England and studied photography at the Royal College of Art in London. From the outset of his career, he distinguished himself from the prevailing currents of British art photography by his commitment to collaborative, long-term projects that prioritised human relationships over aesthetic display. While many of his contemporaries […]
Read MoreJudith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross was born in 1946 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a small coal-mining city in the northeastern part of the state. She has lived and worked in the same region for most of her life, and this rootedness — this commitment to a particular place and its people — is central to understanding her photographic […]
Read MoreJosef Sudek
Josef Sudek was born in 1896 in Kolín, a small town in Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He trained as a bookbinder before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War. In 1917, he was wounded on the Italian front and lost his right arm — a devastating injury for […]
Read MoreJosef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in the small Moravian town of Boskovice, in what was then Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague and trained as an aeronautical engineer, a profession he practised for several years while devoting every spare hour to photography. From the early 1960s he began photographing theatrical […]
Read MoreJohn Scott
John Scott is a British documentary photographer whose work belongs to the tradition of sustained, community-based photographic practice that has been one of the most distinctive contributions of British photography to the wider medium. Working primarily in the towns, estates, and post-industrial landscapes of England, Scott has built a body of work characterised by a […]
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