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William Meyers

William Meyers is a New York photographer and writer, born in 1938. His book Civics (Apollo Publishers, 2026) gathers 25 years of photographs of civic life in New York.

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Jens Krauer

Jens Krauer is a street and documentary photographer based in Zurich. His first book, In Plain Sight (Kehrer Verlag, 2024), gathers ten years of candid photographs from cities around the world.

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Mario Testino

Mario Testino (born 1954) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer based in London. Since the 1990s he has worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair and fashion houses such as Gucci, Versace and Burberry.

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Vineet Vohra

Vineet Vohra (born 1973) is an Indian street photographer based in New Delhi. His color pictures find order in the busy streets of India, where people, shadows and color meet for a moment.

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Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry (born 1950) is an American photographer known for his color portraits and his long work in Asia. His portrait Afghan Girl was on the cover of National Geographic in June 1985.

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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is an American photographer from the Bronx, New York. He started on the streets of New York in 1962 and became one of the early champions of color photography as art.

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Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) was an American street photographer from the Bronx, New York. He photographed public life in America, from city sidewalks and zoos to airports and press events.

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Martin Parr

Martin Parr (1952–2025) was a British documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His bright, close and funny colour photographs of the seaside, shopping and tourism changed British documentary photography.

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Dotan Saguy

Dotan Saguy (born c. 1971) is a street and documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in Israel and raised near Paris, he left a career in high tech in 2015 to photograph full time.

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Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American photographer and painter. From the late 1940s he photographed the streets of New York in colour, close to his home, at a time when serious photographers worked in black and white.

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Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) was an American photographer, born in Paris and raised in Milan. He joined Magnum Photos in 1953 and worked for magazines such as Life, Look and Collier’s.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a French photographer and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. With a small Leica, he photographed life on the street and great moments of history, from India and China to the Soviet Union.

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