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: 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...
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: Martina Lindqvist
Martina Lindqvist (born Finland 1981) studied Photography at Hull College followed by Photographic Arts at The University of Westminster, London, UK. Her inspiration is drawn from childhood memories of places where she grew up and visited as a child in Finland. Lindqvist's unsettlingly still landscapes have the quality of an...
PhotoBiography: Olaf Otto Becker
Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) follows in the tradition of Herbert Ponting and William Bradford, early photographers who travelled to the Polar Regions to photograph these dramatic and unexplored landscapes. Like his predecessors, Becker aims to find a balance between both the artistic and the scientific in his photography. Olaf...
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: Martin Roemers
Martin Roemers s (b. 1962) studied at the AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede, the Netherlands. For many years, he has worked on long-term projects that result in exhibitions and books such as Relics of the Cold War and The Eyes of War. His current project is Metropolis, an...