Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson was born in 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois, a leafy suburb west of Chicago. He discovered photography at the age of ten, setting up a darkroom in his mother’s basement and teaching himself to develop prints. By his mid-teens he was already winning local photography competitions, and his precocious talent earned him a […]
Read MoreDoug DuBois
Doug DuBois is an American photographer whose practice is defined by the depth and duration of his engagement with his subjects. Where many photographers pass through communities, extracting images and moving on, DuBois commits to relationships that extend over years, sometimes decades, building a body of work that earns its intimacy through sustained presence and […]
Read MoreAmak Mahmoodian
Amak Mahmoodian was born in Isfahan, Iran, one of the great cultural capitals of the Persian world, a city of mosques, bridges, and bazaars that would remain a powerful presence in her imagination long after she left. She grew up within a culture that placed great value on poetry, craftsmanship, and visual beauty, but also […]
Read MoreAnders Petersen
Anders Petersen was born in 1944 in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, and grew up in a middle-class Swedish household that gave little indication of the raw, transgressive world he would later make his own as a photographer. As a young man, he was restless and uncertain of his direction, drifting through various jobs and […]
Read MoreAndreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky was born on January 15, 1955, in Leipzig, in what was then East Germany, into a family of commercial photographers. His father, Willy Gursky, ran a successful advertising photography studio, and the young Andreas grew up surrounded by the tools and processes of the medium. The family moved to West Germany during his […]
Read MoreAndreas Weinand
Andreas Weinand is a German documentary photographer based in Cologne whose work occupies a distinctive position within the rich tradition of German photography. Working primarily in colour and with a large-format camera, he brings a patient, analytical eye to the landscapes, communities, and domestic spaces of contemporary Germany, creating images that are formally precise yet […]
Read MoreAnna Fox
Anna Fox was born in 1961 in Alton, a small market town in Hampshire, in the heart of the English countryside that would become one of the enduring subjects of her photographic work. She grew up in a middle-class household in a part of England that is often perceived as comfortable, conventional, and politically conservative […]
Read MoreAnsel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was born on 20 February 1902 in San Francisco, California, the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman whose family fortune had been built in the timber industry, and Olive Bray Adams. The great earthquake of 1906 threw the young Adams against a garden wall, breaking his nose and leaving him […]
Read MoreAlec Soth
Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has remained rooted in the Upper Midwest throughout his career — a fact that distinguishes him from many of his contemporaries in contemporary art photography and that deeply informs the character of his work. He studied painting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, […]
Read MoreAlex Webb
Alex Webb was born in 1952 in San Francisco and raised in New England, the son of a diplomat. His early exposure to different cultures through his father’s career planted the seeds of a lifelong fascination with the borderlands between worlds — geographical, cultural, and psychological. He first picked up a camera as a teenager […]
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