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.
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.
Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst (1906 to 1999) was a German-born American photographer. He is known for his Vogue fashion pictures and portraits, and above all for Mainbocher Corset (1939).
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.
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.
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).
Kotori Kawashima
Kotori Kawashima is a Japanese photographer, born in Tokyo in 1980. His book Mirai-chan, a year with a little girl on Sado Island, has sold more than 130,000 copies.
Lisette Model
Lisette Model (1901 to 1983) was an Austrian-born photographer in New York, known for bold, close portraits like Coney Island Bather and her pictures of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. She was also a great teacher; Diane Arbus was her most famous student.
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer who learned her craft in 1920s Paris as Man Ray’s assistant. Her 1930s series Changing New York recorded a city caught between old and new, and she saved the life’s work of Eugène Atget.
Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold (1912–2012) was an American photojournalist and one of the first women in Magnum Photos. She is known for her pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm X and the Harlem fashion shows, and for her long work about women's lives.
René Burri
René Burri (1933–2014) was a Swiss Magnum photographer who made the famous 1963 portrait of Che Guevara with a cigar. He photographed history, artists and modern architecture around the world for almost sixty years.
David “Chim” Seymour
David “Chim” Seymour (1911–1956) was a Polish-born photojournalist and a founder of Magnum Photos. He is best known for his pictures of the Spanish Civil War and of Europe’s war children, made for UNICEF in 1948.
Inge Morath
Inge Morath (1923–2002) was an Austrian-American photographer and one of the first women members of Magnum Photos. She is known for A Llama in Times Square, her portraits of artists and passers-by, and her books on Spain, Iran, Russia and China.
Chris Killip
Chris Killip (1946 to 2020) was a British documentary photographer from the Isle of Man. His book In Flagrante (1988) shows working-class life in the North East of England as its industries closed.
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.
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine was an American photographer and teacher. His pictures of child workers for the National Child Labor Committee helped change American law, and his later portraits of workers, including the builders of the Empire State Building, showed the pride of people at work.
Dan Nelken
Dan Nelken is a photographer, documentary storyteller and educator based in New York City. His book HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda (Kehrer Verlag, 2026) brings together portraits and stories of working women in rural Uganda.