Lars 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 MoreMartine 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 MoreHans Aarsman
Hans Aarsman was born in 1951 in Amsterdam, and his early career followed a conventional path for a Dutch documentary photographer of his generation. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and worked as a freelance photographer through the 1970s and 1980s, producing documentary images of Dutch life that appeared in newspapers and magazines. He […]
Read MoreJim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg was born in 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, and has spent his career developing a form of documentary photography that is at once deeply personal and rigorously engaged with questions of social justice, power, and representation. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned his MFA, and it was in […]
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 MoreHans Eijkelboom
Hans Eijkelboom was born in 1949 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and came of age during a period when the boundaries between fine art and photography, between conceptual practice and documentary tradition, were being radically redrawn. He studied at the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Arnhem and emerged in the early 1970s as a conceptual artist […]
Read MoreJoachim Schmid
Joachim Schmid was born in 1955 in Balingen, a small town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and has devoted his career to one of the most radical and sustained interrogations of photography’s nature and purpose ever undertaken. Since the early 1980s, working from Berlin, Schmid has produced an enormous body of work without ever — or almost […]
Read MoreLauren 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 MoreHarry Callahan
Harry Callahan was born in 1912 in Detroit, Michigan, and spent his early adulthood working as a clerk at the Chrysler Corporation, a job that offered no hint of the extraordinary artistic career that lay ahead. He purchased his first camera in 1938 and joined the Detroit Photo Guild, a local amateur photography club, where […]
Read MoreJoe Deal
Joe Deal was born in 1947 in Topeka, Kansas, and grew up in the heartland of a country that was rapidly transforming itself. After studying painting at the Kansas City Art Institute, he turned to photography, earning his BFA in 1970 and subsequently pursuing graduate work at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque under […]
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