Tobias Madörin, born 1965 in Basel, lives and works in Zurich. His travels through Europe, South and North America, as well as Asia and Africa have led him to the most diverse places where the photos arose for his long-running project Topos. Since 1990, Tobias Madörin has regularly exhibited in...
PhotoBiography: James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer. He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two World Press Photo awards. In 2003, Nachtwey was injured in a grenade attack on his convoy while working in Baghdad, from...
PhotoBiography: Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada's most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the...
PhotoBiography: Greg Girard
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his career in Asia. His work examines the social and physical transformations taking place throughout the region. He is represented by Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver/Toronto) and also works on assignment for publications such as National Geographic Magazine. In 2012...
PhotoBiography: Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) was a noted American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s - particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans and in glamour photography. As the first famous pioneer among black filmmakers, he...
PhotoBiography: Zhang Kechun
Born in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, in 1980, Zhang Kechun studied art and design before to become a photographer and artist. His first work is “The Yellow River”, published and exhibited worldwide. Over a two-year period, Zhang took images of life along the river that has been plagued with flooding,...
PhotoBiography: Jimmy Nelson
Jimmy Nelson (Sevenoaks, Kent, 1967) started working as a photographer in 1987. Having spent 10 years at a Jesuit boarding school in the North of England, he set off on his own to traverse the length of Tibet on foot. The journey lasted a year and upon his return his...
PhotoBiography: Joakim Eskildsen
Joakim Eskildsen was born in Copenhagen in 1971 where he trained with Royal Court photographer, Mrs. RigmorMydtskov. In 1994, he moved to Finland to learn the craft of photographic book making with Jyrki Parantainen andPentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, graduating with an MA degree...
PhotoBiography: Tamas Dezso
Tamas Dezso was born in 1978, and is based in Budapest. His work has been exhibited worldwide and has been published in TIME, The New York Times, National Geographic, GEO, Le Monde Magazine, The Sunday Times, PDN, Ojo de Pez, HotShoe Magazine, The British Journal of Photography and many others....
PhotoBiography: Corey Arnold
Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman by trade. Working as a deckhand in Alaska since 1995, he spent seven years aboard the Bering Sea crabbing vessel f/v Rollo. He now captains a wild sockeye salmon fishing operation based out of an abandoned cannery complex called Graveyard Point. His...