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: 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...
PhotoBiography: Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Before the 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. In the years since,...
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: Luigi Ghirri
Luigi Ghirri (1943 - 1992) was an Italian artist and photographer who gained a far-reaching reputation as a pioneer and master of contemporary photography, with particular reference to its relationship between fiction and reality. His realistic use of colour, the normality of his shots and subjects in comparison with formalistic...