Berenice 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 […]
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Donald McCullin was born in 1935 in Finsbury Park, a working-class district of north London that would shape his sensibility as profoundly as any battlefield. His father was a poor man who suffered from chronic asthma, and the family lived in conditions of real deprivation. McCullin grew up amid the bombsites and rubble of wartime […]
Read MoreDonovan Wylie
Donovan Wylie was born in Belfast in 1971, at the very start of the period that would come to be known as the Troubles. Growing up in a city defined by division, surveillance, and the constant presence of military infrastructure, Wylie developed an acute sensitivity to the ways in which political power inscribes itself upon […]
Read MoreSebastião Salgado
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born on 8 February 1944 in Aimorés, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, surrounded by the lush Atlantic Forest that would, decades later, become central to his life’s mission. The son of a cattle rancher, he grew up on a farm in the Rio Doce valley, one […]
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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