Julian 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 MoreKaren Knorr
Karen Knorr was born in 1954 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to an American father and a Puerto Rican mother, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, before moving to England in the 1970s. This transnational upbringing gave her an outsider’s perspective on British culture that would prove invaluable when she began photographing the […]
Read MoreKen 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 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 MoreLarry Clark (1943)
Larry Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1943, into a world that would become both the setting and the subject of his most important work. His mother worked as an itinerant baby photographer, travelling from door to door across the state to photograph infants and toddlers for their families. Clark accompanied her from a […]
Read MoreLarry Sultan (1946 – 2009)
Larry Sultan made his most important work in the place that most artists spend their careers trying to escape: his parents’ house. Born in Brooklyn in 1946, raised in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, and educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute during the ferment of the […]
Read MoreLars 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 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 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 MoreLee Friedlander (1934)
Lee Friedlander was born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, a small lumber town on the Pacific Northwest coast that offered little in the way of artistic stimulation but much in the way of American ordinariness. It was precisely this ordinariness, the clutter and texture of everyday life in the United States, that would become his […]
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