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Artists / New Zealand
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Michael Hall New Zealand, born 1962. Michael was raised in the Far North of New Zealand. During 1988-1989 he studied at Wellington Polytechnic. Much of what Hall focuses his lens and attention on is the altered landscape. His Climate Change work is a good example of this. A blighted moonscape stretching as far as the eye can see. Stunted trees. blackene...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Artist Statement     My old friend, Garry Winogrand used to say, “I photograph to see what something will look like photographed”.  So do I.  I’m fascinated by that dynamic.  But I also put a lot of emphasis on what I photograph.  Over the years I have been drawn to all manner of subjects:  Indians, cowboys, boxers, rodeos, lucha libre (M...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio   John Rickard (b.1973, Racine, Wisconsin) is a photographer based in Weed, California. The focus of his photographs are his personal life, his career as a fishing guide, questions of faith and his travels. He focuses his camera on what he knows and what he is trying to figure out. A self described old fashion film photographer occasionally dazzled by digital but always stinks of fixer, John believes in always working, ...

Artists / Greece
  View Portfolio   Chartouliaris, Panagis Born in Athens, Greece, in 1966. He has been involved in exhibitions from the late 80s till the late 90s. Shows in Greece, Italy and Denmark. Exhibitions titles: The Cuban Archives(1989),Genesis(1993),Pop Corn(1995),The Kings of the Desert(1997-98). He continued in publications creating in 1999 the cosmic cards collection. Followed several co-operations and publications. He is currently livi...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio   Simon Head - English, born in Winchester, 1951. He lives with his family in London, U.K. I agree with Nicolas Bourriaud when he states that ‘The artist works like a social worker and their art documents this work. Some artistic activities really develop according to the scenario, in other words the work of art itself cannot go beyond being a moment anymore, it takes part in the artistic activity, it is not t...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio   Born in New Jersey, 1978 Michael Massaia is a fine art photographer and printmaker whose work focuses on New York City, and New Jersey life and landscape.  Michael specializes in large format black & white photography and large format Platinum/Palladium printing. All of his images are true "one shot" candid scenes that have been pushed to their limit via film developing and printing techniques to ...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website John Manno is a photographer living and working in New York City.  His photography has appeared in many magazines and his prints have been exhibited in galleries in New York and elsewhere. A current photo essay is online at www.soldinnyc.com. He can be contacted at john@johnmanno.com  

Artists / Jordan
  View Portfolio   Tariq Dajani (Jordanian-Palestinain/British photographer-artist, b.1965 England) Tariq Dajani spent his early years mov­ing between the Mid­dle East and Europe, gain­ing an under­stand­ing and an appre­ci­a­tion of dif­fer­ent cul­tures and tra­di­tions. He grew up with a strong inter­est in the arts which sub­se­quently led to a career in pho­tog...

Artists / Switzerland
  View Portfolio   Maurizio Orlanduccio, Italian, born in 1963 in Switzerland, studied Linguistics in Zurich, worked as a photojournalist in Rome. Today he focuses on portrait and landscape photography and is based in Zurich. These portfolios show an ongoing "explorative" journey into unspectacular environments where the protagonists are the color tonalities. What also captivates the photographer's eye is both presence a...

Artists / Greece
  View Portfolio   c.v.(statement)My narrations explore-paradoxically- existential issues, such as the passage of time, religion, freedom, the temporality of the material.  I often combine photographic and sculptural elements, along with video and text, creating a "fairytale" environment in the world of dreams. website link: http://vimeo.com/tzimou email: olgatzimou@hotmail.com  

Artists / France
  View Portfolio   This is also a sample of our new portfolio we provide to photographers who want to present their work on Photography-now.net     Cédric Delsaux | France Born 1974 in Paris. Cédric Delsaux lives and works in Paris, France. After studying cinematography and journalism, he worked as a bookseller and in advertising. He has devoted himself to photography full-time since 2003. He received the K...

Artists / Russia
  View Portfolio   Alexey Titarenko received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at Leningrad's Institute of Culture in 1983. He began taking photographs at the beginning of the 1970s, and in 1978 became a member of the well-known Leningrad photographic club Zerkalo, where he had his first solo exhibition (1978). Since this was creative activity that had no connect...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Ansel Adams American, 1902 - 1984 Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams. He was an only child and was named after his uncle Ansel Easton. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s but were not connected with the Presidential Adams family. His grandfather founded an...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Artists Website Richard Avedon American 1923 - 2004 Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been "found" by an art director at HARPER'S BAZAAR and was producing work for them as well as VOGUE, LOOK, and a nu...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio   Dave Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies and received his BFA in photography in 1974. Shortly after this Jordano moved to Chicago, and in 1977 he started a commercial photography business on Wells Street in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. As a commercial photographer Jordano worked with many large companies such as Crate & Barrel, Starbucks, Nestle, Se...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Arists Website Mapplethorpe, Robert American, 1946-1989 At first Robert Mapplethorpe wanted to become a musician, but he eventually decided to study painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1968 he met the singer Patti Smith with whom he moved to the now legendary Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan in 1970. Under the influence of his friend John McEndry, curator for printed art and photography at the Metropol...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Strand, Paul American, 1890-1976 Paul Strand, one of the towering figures of American 20th c. photography, was born in New York City, the only child of parents of Bohemian-Jewish descent. He first became interested in photography as a student at the Ethical Culture School under the influence of Lewis Hine. It was Hine who introduced Strand to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo Secession Gallery in 1907. In the next few y...

Artists / France
View Portfolio Atget, Eugene French, 1857-1927 Jean Eugene Auguste Atget, among the first of photography's social documenters, has come to be regarded as one of the medium's major figures. His images of Paris are perhaps the most vivid record of a city ever made.  Atget was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, France, and was raised by an uncle from an early age after the deaths of his parents. He became a cabin boy a...

Artists / Norway
    View Portfolio   BJORN STERRI 11.02.1960 Lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Education 1994 - 95 University of Art and Craft, photography, Stockholm, Sweden 1987 - 90 Napier University, photography, Edinburgh, Scotland Selected one-person exhibitions 2010 Museo Universidad de Murcia, Spain 2009 Galeria Universidad de Tucoman, Argentina 2009 Arcidiacono Fotogaleria, Mendoza, Argentina 2008 Museo de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, A...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Lewis Baltz American, born 1945   Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, California) is a visual artist, philosopher,[citation needed] and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. He received several scholarships and awa...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website John Davies British, born 1945 "John Davies is one of today's most outstanding British photographers, he became famous through his research on the English industrial landscape, observed in vast and detailed views... John Davies's work belongs to the world of contemporary documentary photography. Faithful to a refined, pure black and white, taken on as the absolute rul...

Artists / Netherlands
  View Portfolio Rineke Dijkstra Dutch, born 1959 Rineke Dijkstra documents people in transitional moments: mothers shortly after giving birth, young people entering the military, matadors still bloody from a bullfight, young club kids just off the dance floor, and preadolescent bathers on various beaches in the United States and Eastern Europe. Formally, her images resemble classical portraiture with their frontally posed figur...

Artists / France
  View Portfolio   Vincent Brien Born :  May 26, 1964 in France email : vincentbrien@yahoo.fr Professional Experience I am a self-educated photographer and began my career in Rouen printing black and white photos, ( 1989 - 1992) before working as a stage assistant in fashion and publicity in Paris (1994 -1995).  I then worked for five years as an assistant photographer in  corporate communication (1995 &nda...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist`s Website David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both. Maisel’s aerial images of environmentally impacted sites explore the aesthetics and politics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, and zones of water reclamation, framing the issues of contempor...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Jock Sturges American, born 1947 Jock Sturges has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography. Sturges shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girls. The photos have an undeniably erotic quality, unlike some types of nude photography that treat the human body more as abstract form....

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer known for his landscapes. Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. In the 1980s, Kenna moved to San Francisco and worked as Ruth Bernhard's printer.[1] Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved ...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio Karsh, Yousuf Canadian, 1908-2002  Yousuf Karsh came to international prominence with a 1941 Life cover: the famous "English bulldog," portrait of Winston Churchill. Karsh has photographed many thousands of subjects in the last 50 years, principally portraits of distinguished men and women in every field of endeavor: statesmanship, the arts, and the sciences. Karsh prefers to take his portraits in the su...

Artists / Japan
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi), born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, USA. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.   // Life and Works Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, ...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website David Levinthal American, born 1949 Photographer David Levinthal has long fixated on toys as signifiers of cultural myths, employing toy soldiers, cowboys and Indians to deconstruct historic icons through the prism of 1950s boyhood. In recent years, Levinthal has moved from boy's playthings to those of men, in the form of adult-oriented female figurines built from model kits. Though su...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio   Benoit Aquin - Winner Prix Pictet 2008 Artist statement One of the greatest environmental disasters of our time: The Chinese 'Dust Bowl' is probably the largest conversion of productive land into sand anywhere in the world. Deserts cover 18% of China today. Of those, 78% are natural, while 22% were created by humans. With unsustainable practices, to date, Chinese farmers and herders have transf...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio   Arkadius Zagrabski  was born in 1977 in a town called Bromberg in Poland and have been living in Rheinland, Germany since the age of five. He is currently living in Duesseldorf/Langenfeld. Arkadius have been working as a photographer since 2006 and develop my photo`s personally. In 2008 he began working professionally with the Photobook "Düsseldorf Pur" which is about the city of Duesseldorf an...

Artists / Denmark
  View Portfolio Born and raised in Denmark, I grew up surrounded by water. The ocean, lakes and rivers were everywhere I looked. My senses were filled with the smell, sound and the visual impression of water. Water to me represents life and the equanimity and power of nature. Water is where I came from. My fascination with water is never ending. I can sit on the shoreline for hours without taking a single photograph and just take in the...

Artists / Israel
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Nadar Kander Israely born 1961 Nadav Kander was born in Israel. He grew up in South Africa and moved to London in the 80s, where he lives with his wife, Nicole and their three children. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Another Man and The Sunday Times Magazine. Recent commissions include campaigns for Adidas, Levis, Rolex, Absolut, Stell...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio   Todd Hido (b.1968, Kent, Ohio) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Currently based in San Francisco, much of Hido’s work involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S., of which the artist produces large, highly detailed and luminous color photographs. Education     * 1996 M.F.A. California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California     * 1991-1992 Rh...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Emmet Gowin American, born 1941 He grew up in southern Virginia. He began photographing in 1961, at the Richmond Professional Institute, and went on to graduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design. His prints have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of museums and galleries throughout the United States. Gowin lives with his wife, Edith, and their sons, Isaac and Elijah, in a small Pennsylvani...

Artists / Canada
View Portfolio Edward Burtynsky Canadian, born 1955 Burtynsky is one of the best Color Photographers today. Born in 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario, he studied at the Ryerson Polytechnic University, where he obtained a B.A. in photographic arts, and at the Niagara College, where he obtained a diploma in graphic arts. His work appears in a number of museums, corporate collections, and books. Burtynsky's most famous...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Michael Schanabel German, born 1966 2007 Paris photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff Bank, Los Angeles Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris 2006 “Stille Berge”, Galerie Widmer + Theodoris, Zürich Visual gallery, Photokina, Cologne “Stille Berge”, Fotoforum, Bozen Art Cologne, ArtFair with Galerie Photonet “Tiefes Licht”, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshav...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio William Egglestone American born 1939 William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer who had failed as a cotton farmer, and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and repor...

Artists / Germany
View Portfolio August Sander German 1876 - 1964 August Sander was born and lived in Germany. He started his great project around 1910; his aim was to produce a kind of catalogue of representative types of German Society - 'Man in the Twentieth Century'. His portraits of individuals and small groups often show them in their working clothes and sometimes in their work environments, and are captioned by occupation - school-teac...

Artists / Switzerland
View Portfolio Artist's Website Peter Gasser Swiss, born 1947  To the acknowledged Swiss masters of Photography of the last forty years - Hans Finsler, Gotthard Schuh, Werner Bischof, Paul Senn, Jakob Tuggener, Robert Frank and others - we may add an other name: Peter Gasser. A love for Swiss precision work is Gasser`s bond with his famous country-men. His predilection for landscape photography made him tur...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio George Tice American, born 1938 George Tice recently marked his fortieth year in photography. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938, he joined the Cateret Camera Club at the age of fourteen. At sixteen he left high school to work as a darkroom assistant for a photo studio. A year later he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a photographer's mate, after which he worked as a home portrait photographer for ten yea...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio   Robert Adams American, born, 1937 Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York a...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Irving Penn American, born 1917 Born in New Jersey,Irving Penn studied design at the Philadelphia Museum School, where he became a student of Alexey Brodovitch. In 1937, the year before he graduated, several of his drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar. From 1940 to 1941, he worked for the art and advertising director of Saks Fifth Avenue, and the following year he spent in Mexico painting, a medium...

Artists / Belgium
View Portfolio Artists Website Carl de Keyzer Belgian, born 1958 One of a generation of reporters to have emerged in the late 1980s, Carl de Keyzer likes to tackle large-scale projects and general themes. He often starts from the premise that disaster has already struck and that everywhere infrastructures are on the verge of collapse in overpopulated communities. De Keyzer started his career as a freelance photographer in ...

Artists / Denmark
  View Portfolio   Artists Website Joakim Eskildsen Danish, born 1972 Joakim Eskildsen was born in Copenhagen in 1971 where he trained with the Royal Court photographer Rigmor Mydtskov. In 1994, he moved to Finland to learn the craft of photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, graduating with an MA degree in photography in 1998. ...

Artists / Ukraine
  View Portfolio   Arthur Bondar Kiev, Ukraine. I was born in Krivoy Rog in Ukraine, 1983. I've studed in my own town and then in 2000 I entered at the National Lingustic University and moved to Kiev. In this university I've studied during 2000-2004. After I've got my bachelor degree in English phylology I left the university and began my own way. I have worked almost at twenty jobs before I found myself in photography. Fr...

Artists / China
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Ma Liang/ Maleonn China 1972 Born in Shanghai 1984-1995 Shanghai Huashan Art School Attached High School of Fine Art College of Shanghai University Graduated from Fine Art College of Shanghai University, Major in Graphic Design 1995-2003 Engaged in commercial film as Art director and Director 2004- Engaged in independent Creation of Art Lives and works in Shanghai, Chi...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio David Burdeny Canadian, born 1968 Artists Website

Artists / Italy
  View Portfolio Gabriele Basilico Italian, born 1944 Gabriele Basilico is among the best known documentary photographers in Europe, cities and industrial landscapes are his fields of research. Originally an architect, he works as a photographer of architecture for publishing firms, industry, public and private institutions. In 1984 and 1985 he is commissioned by DATAR (the delegation for planning the country and helping reg...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Philip Trager American, born 1935 Active as a photographer for more than forty years, Philip Trager is a preeminent photographer of dance and architecture. His photographs of contemporary dancers and performance artists have expanded the genre of dance photography. His book, The Villas of Palladio, has become a standard document for architects and architectural historians. His most recent b...

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