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: 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: Carl De Keyzer
Carl De Keyzer (born 1958) started his career as a freelance photo-grapher in 1982, while supporting himself as a photography instructor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. At the same time, his interest in the work of other photographers led him to co-found and co-direct the XYZ-Photography...
PhotoBiography: Vee Speers
Vee Speers, an Australian artist, has lived and worked in Paris since 1990. Speers studied fine art and photography at the QCA in Brisbane before working as a Stills Photographer at the ABC Television in Sydney in the 80’s. After moving to Paris she began exhibiting her series ‘Bordello’ ,...
PhotoBiography: Elger Esser
Elger Esser was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1967 and was raised in Rome. In 1986, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a commercial photographer until 1991. He then attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher, until 1997. A trip to Lyon in 1996 marked...
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: Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American photographer. She is best known for her portraits of political figures, musicians and athletes, all of which are featured regularly in magazines, fashion, and advertising. Many of Leibovitz's portraits of rock music celebrities have become signature images. A notable example is...
PhotoBiography: Neil Craver
As a youth in North Carolina; I begun my path as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor; my motivation grew from my interest of psychophysical effects of chroma. Photography holds all the intrinsic values of all the other arts; but differers in the fact the it’s the foundation of existence....
PhotoBiography: Christian Höhn
Christian Höhn, a photographer from Nuremberg, set out to create an artistic documentary of the sites of these emotional and literary moments. His large-scale photographs transcend the boundary between reality and poetry, creating surreal pictures of station buildings and allowing the viewer to join in his search for the great...
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...