Ken Grant
Ken Grant was born in 1967 in Liverpool, the son of a carpenter. He bought his first camera — a Polaroid — at the age of twelve and worked as a carpenter himself before studying photography under Martin Parr and Paul Graham at West Surrey College of Art and Design. Over the past three decades, […]
Read MoreThomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in the small town of Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. He grew up in a rural landscape of extraordinary visual quietness, a backdrop that would make the cool, analytical rigour of his later work all the more striking. In 1977, he enrolled at […]
Read MoreThomas Struth
Thomas Struth was born in 1954 in Geldern, a small town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany. He grew up in the quiet, orderly landscape of the postwar Rhineland, a visual environment that would leave its mark on the measured, analytical quality of his mature work. In 1973, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie […]
Read MoreTimothy H. O’Sullivan
Timothy Henry O’Sullivan was born around 1840, most likely in New York City, though some accounts place his birth in Ireland, from which his parents had recently emigrated. Very little is known of his early life, and the scarcity of biographical detail has contributed to the somewhat mythic status he holds in the history of […]
Read MoreW. Eugene Smith
William Eugene Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1918, and from his earliest years demonstrated an intensity of purpose that would define both the brilliance and the turbulence of his life. His father, a grain dealer, committed suicide when Eugene was eighteen, a trauma that left a lasting mark on the young man. Smith […]
Read MoreTodd Hido
Todd Hido was born in 1968 in Kent, Ohio, a small Midwestern town whose quiet streets, modest houses, and overcast skies would become the emotional landscape of his entire body of work. He grew up in a turbulent household, and the tensions of his childhood — the gap between the orderly exterior of suburban life […]
Read MoreTony Ray-Jones
Tony Ray-Jones was born Holroyd Antony Ray-Jones in 1941 in Wells, Somerset, and grew up in the small-town England that would become his greatest subject. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing before winning a scholarship to Yale University in 1961, where he studied under the legendary graphic designer Alexey Brodovitch and […]
Read MoreTrent Parke
Trent Parke was born in 1971 in Newcastle, New South Wales, and grew up in the relentless light of the Australian coast. His mother gave him his first camera, a Pentax Spotmatic, when he was twelve years old, and from that moment he was consumed. He began photographing everything around him with an intensity and […]
Read MoreTrish Morrissey
Trish Morrissey was born in Dublin in 1967 and grew up in a large Irish family whose rituals, hierarchies, and dynamics would become the central subject of her artistic practice. She studied fine art at the Dublin Institute of Technology and later completed an MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and […]
Read MoreVivian Maier
Vivian Maier is the most remarkable photographic discovery of the twenty-first century. Born in New York City in 1926 to a French mother and an Austrian father, she spent significant portions of her childhood in the village of Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur in the French Alps, where her mother had family connections. This Franco-American upbringing gave her a […]
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