PhotoBiography: Jeff Wall

Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has...

PhotoBiography: Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer. He photographs tableaux of American homes and neighborhoods. Crewdson's photographs usually take place in small-town America, but are dramatic and cinematic. They feature often disturbing, surreal events. His photographs are elaborately staged and lit using crews familiar with motion picture production...

PhotoBiography: André Lichtenberg

André Lichtenberg (born 1964 - Brazil), currently lives and works in UK. Lichtenberg is a fine art photographer (with a scientific background). His projects investigate childhood patterns and memories in connection with studies of the environment and architecture. His images are carefully constructed using techniques that fluctuate between science and...

PhotoBiography: Troy Paiva

My light-painted nightwork captures the abandoned and discarded underbelly of the American West. I sneak through fences during the full moon to capture the inevitable march of nature, scrappers and developers, who conspire to erase the fading memories of all these things we once held so dear. I convert these...

PhotoBiography: Christine Anderson

Christine Anderson was born in 1964 in New Jersey (United States). She received her BFA in Painting from Long Island University, Southampton in 1986. Christine is a well known and respected Fine Arts Photographer. Her work has been shown in Europe and the United States and has been featured in...

PhotoBiography: Robert Hutinski

What is in the photos is what I think I see. - To observe - To document - To communicate - To warn - To take a stand. Today, the political permeates most practices in the everyday of an individual who both executes and produces them and only rarely (in...

PhotoBiography: Julie Blackmon

The photographer Julie Blackmon's (born 1966) precisely choreographed domestic scenes apply an uncanny sense of balance, color composition, and proportion to households in various states of child-provoked disarray. The results hearken back to the work of 17th century Dutch painters like Vermeer and Jan Steen a "Jan Steen household," after...

PhotoBiography: Chen Jiagang

Chen Jiagang was born in 1962 in Chongqing, China. Jiagang began his career as a celebrated architect and real estate developer before making the transition to photography. In 1999, he was named one of twelve "Outstanding Young Architects" by the United Nations. Jiagang is the founder of the Sichuan Upriver...

PhotoBiography: Joel Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses, and various outsiders such as dwarves, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or classical paintings. Witkin begins each image by sketching his ideas...

PhotoBiography: Daniel Naudé

Daniel Naudé was born in 1984 in Cape Town, and lives there. He graduated with a BA Visual Arts from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007. He was festival artist at the Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, in 2012. Notable group shows include Neither Man Nor Stone at the Iziko...