Swapan Parekh
Swapan Parekh is an Indian photographer and visual artist. He has worked in documentary photography, photojournalism and advertising, and self-published A Little Peace On Earth That’s Mine in 2025.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (born 1845, died 1923) was a German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895. He was not a photographer, but his X-ray pictures on photographic plates, such as the one of his wife's hand, are part of the history of images.
Peter Leibing
Peter Leibing (born 1941, died 2008) was a German press photographer from Hamburg. He is known for Leap to Freedom (1961), the picture of an East German border guard jumping over barbed wire in Berlin.
Larry Towell
Larry Towell (born 1953) is a Canadian photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He is known for The Mennonites, a ten-year project on Mennonite families in Ontario and Mexico.
Dennis Stock
Dennis Stock (born 1928, died 2010) was an American Magnum photographer. He is known for his 1955 portraits of James Dean, his jazz book Jazz Street and his pictures of California's counterculture.
Robert Lebeck
Robert Lebeck (born 1929, died 2014) was a German photojournalist. He is known for his 1960 picture of a man taking King Baudouin's sword in Léopoldville and for his reportages and portraits for Stern.
Alberto Korda
Alberto Korda (1928 to 2001) was a Cuban photographer. He worked in fashion and advertising, then documented the Cuban Revolution. He is best known for his 1960 portrait of Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico.
Erich Salomon
Erich Salomon (1886 to 1944) was a German photojournalist known for candid pictures of statesmen and conferences. He is often called a pioneer of candid photography.
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (about 1840 to 1882) was an American photographer of the Civil War and the American West. He is known for his pictures made on the King and Wheeler surveys.
Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton (1819 to 1869) was an English photographer. He is known for his 1855 photographs of the Crimean War and for his views of abbeys, cathedrals and landscapes.
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis (born 1849, died 1914) was a Danish-born reporter and reformer in New York. He is known for his book How the Other Half Lives and for flash pictures of the city's slums, some made with amateur helpers.
Erwan Illian
Erwan Illian is a French photographer who photographed the punk scene at CBGB in New York on color slide film around 1980. His book LIVE AT CBGB's was published by Fall Line Press in 2026.
Robert Nickelsberg
Robert Nickelsberg is an American photojournalist who worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years. His books include Afghanistan: A Distant War and Kashmir, the Valley.
David Campbell
David Campbell is an educator and writer who studies how photographs are made and understood. He is Director of Education at The VII Foundation and edits its magazine, Dispatches.
Edward Grazda
Edward Grazda is an American photographer who has photographed in the USA, Latin America and Asia. His books include Afghanistan Diary, Mean Streets and The Power of Observation.
Jan Banning
Jan Banning is a Dutch photographer and artist based in Utrecht. His work looks at state power, justice and the long-term effects of war, including the book Blood Bonds (Lecturis, 2025).
Mads Nissen
Mads Nissen is a Danish documentary photographer based in Copenhagen. He has received World Press Photo’s main prize three times.
Glenn Ruga
Glenn Ruga is a photographer, graphic designer and curator. He founded Social Documentary Network in 2008 and ZEKE magazine in 2015.
Kinga Owczennikow
Kinga Owczennikow is a photographer originally from Poland, now based in New York City. Her first photobook, Framing the World, was published by Ephemere in 2025.