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. Her 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.
Sara Bennett
Sara Bennett is a New York-based photographer, former public defender and 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Her first monograph, Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences (Kehrer Verlag, 2026), follows women serving life sentences in New York State.
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.
August Sander
August Sander (born 1876, died 1964) was a German portrait photographer. His lifelong project People of the 20th Century shows German society through hundreds of calm, direct portraits of farmers, workers, artists and outsiders.
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.