Martine Franck
Martine Franck was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1938, into a cultured and cosmopolitan family. She grew up partly in Belgium and partly in England, where she attended school, before studying art history at the University of Madrid and the École du Louvre in Paris. Her early studies immersed her in the visual traditions of […]
Read MoreJacob Aue Sobol
Jacob Aue Sobol was born in Copenhagen in 1976 and grew up in Denmark with an early awareness that he wanted to engage the world through direct, physical experience rather than from a comfortable distance. He studied at the European Film College in the mid-1990s, where he first picked up a camera, and subsequently enrolled […]
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 MoreJacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue was born on 13 June 1894 in Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris, into a wealthy and indulgent family that provided him with both the leisure and the equipment to begin photographing at an astonishingly early age. His father, Henri Lartigue, was a prosperous businessman and an enthusiastic amateur photographer who gave Jacques […]
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 MoreBarbara Norfleet
Barbara Paine Norfleet was born in 1926 in Lakewood, New Jersey, into the very world of American privilege that would later become the central subject of her photographic work. She grew up in comfortable, educated surroundings and attended Bryn Mawr College, one of the elite women’s institutions of the American Northeast, where she studied the […]
Read MoreDan Winters
Dan Winters was born in 1962 in Ventura County, California, and grew up in a world far removed from the celebrity culture he would one day document with such extraordinary precision. His father was an aerospace engineer, and the family’s proximity to the space industry instilled in the young Winters a fascination with technology, engineering, […]
Read MoreFrederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer was born in 1905 in Angri, a small town near Naples in southern Italy. His father was a Swiss-German landscape architect, and the family moved frequently during Sommer’s childhood, living in Italy, Brazil, and eventually the United States. This itinerant upbringing gave him an unusually cosmopolitan perspective and a fluency in multiple languages […]
Read MoreBerenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was born on 17 July 1898 in Springfield, Ohio, and grew up in circumstances that were anything but auspicious for a future artist. Her parents separated when she was young, and she was raised in difficult conditions. Fiercely independent from an early age, she left Ohio as soon as she was able, moving […]
Read MoreDave Heath
Dave Heath was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and abandoned by his parents as an infant. He spent his childhood in a series of foster homes and orphanages, an experience of rejection and impermanence that would shape every aspect of his life and art. The loneliness of those early years became not merely the subject […]
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