Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his unusual black & white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His photos concentrate on the interaction between ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and...
PhotoBiography: Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf (born 1954 in Munich) is a German artist and photographer who lives and works in Hong Kong and Paris. His work focuses on daily life in big cities. Wolf won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category of the 2004 World Press Photo competition for his photographs of...
PhotoBiography: David Maisel
David Maisel (born in New York, NY in 1961) is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present. His work is exhibited internationally and is collected in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA and the Victoria and...
PhotoBiography: Patrick Gries
Born in Belgium, Patrick Gries began his career in photography when he moved to New York in 1984. He has since pursued both personal and commissioned work and has become a reference in the field of art and design publications for institutions such as the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain,...
PhotoBiography: Alec Soth
Alec Soth (born 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis, who makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners...
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: Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt (born 1964) is an English photographer who photographs exclusively in the African continent, one of his goals being to record a last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of man. In 2001, Brandt embarked upon his ambitious photographic project:...
PhotoBiography: Paul Hart
British photographer Paul Hart (b.1961) explores our relationship with the landscape, in both a humanistic and socio-historical sense. His work usually concentrates on a specific geographical region where he photographs intensively over a number of years. He works solely with the black and white analogue process. Hart studied at Lincoln...
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: Todd Hido
Todd Hido (born 25 August 1968, Kent, Ohio, United States) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Currently based in San Francisco, much of Hido's work involves photographs of urban and suburban housing across the U.S.. He has produced a number of well received books,[3] had his work exhibited widely...