Herman Dyal
Herman Ellis Dyal is an American architect, designer and photographer based in Austin, Texas. His first book of photographs, The Things Not Seen Are Eternal, was published by GOST Books in 2023.
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao is a Taiwanese-born photographer in New York. He builds large panoramas from many exposures of one place. His monograph New York was published by Aperture in 2014.
Elena Helfrecht
Elena Helfrecht is a German visual artist based in Bavaria. Her photographs draw on autobiography, folklore and horror. Her book Unternächte was published by Void in 2026.
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing is a British artist, born in Birmingham in 1963. She is known for photographs and videos in which people write, confess or act out their own stories, and for self portraits in masks.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York. He is known for photo series such as Seascapes, Theaters and Architecture.
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton (1903 to 1990) was an American engineer and professor at MIT. He is known for flash photographs that freeze fast events, such as a drop of milk or a kick.
John Gossage
John Gossage (born 1946) is an American photographer, best known for his photobooks. His books The Pond and Berlin in the Time of the Wall turn plain, overlooked places into quiet stories.
Damien Aubin
Damien Aubin is a French photographer who works with places and figures shaped by systems larger than themselves. His first photobook, PYRAMIDEN, was published in 2026.
Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina is a photographer and artist based in Lumberland, New York. He is known for Everyday, a self-portrait he has made almost every day since January 2000.
RongRong&inri
RongRong&inri are a photographic duo from China and Japan who have worked together since 2000. They founded Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing.
Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is an American photographer and teacher. He first became known for close portraits of his wife Edith and her family, and later for aerial photographs of landscapes changed by people.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd and Hilla Becher were a German artist couple who photographed old industrial buildings for almost fifty years. Their grids of water towers, blast furnaces and cooling towers, and their students in Düsseldorf, changed late 20th century photography.
Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt (1904–1983) was a German-born British photographer. He pictured English life in the 1930s, London at night and in the Blitz, and later made famous wide-angle nudes.
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was a Luxembourg-born American photographer and curator. He moved from soft art prints to modern fashion and star portraits for Vogue and Vanity Fair, and later made The Family of Man at MoMA.
Paul Strand
Paul Strand (1890–1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker. His sharp New York pictures of 1916 helped make photography a modern art, and his later books gave quiet portraits of small communities in New England, Italy, the Hebrides and beyond.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an American photographer and gallery owner who fought to make photography an art. His New York pictures, The Steerage, his portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and his cloud Equivalents are classics of modern photography.
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna (born 1953) is a British photographer of quiet black and white landscapes, often made at dawn or at night with long exposures. Since 1987 he has photographed Japan again and again, from Tokyo to the snowy hills of Hokkaido.
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin (born 1953) is an American photographer who has spent fifty years photographing her friends, lovers and chosen family. Her slideshow and book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is one of the most influential photographic diaries ever made.
Pete Turner
Pete Turner was an American pioneer of color photography. His bold, saturated pictures, from Giraffe to more than a hundred jazz album covers, showed that color itself could be the subject.