Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was a French photographer who spent about thirty years photographing old Paris with a large wooden camera. His quiet pictures of streets, courtyards and shop windows were sold as “documents for artists” and later shaped documentary photography.
Tod Papageorge
Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is an American street photographer and teacher. Close to Garry Winogrand in 1960s New York, he is best known for Passing Through Eden, his pictures of Central Park, and led Yale's graduate photography program from 1979 to 2013.
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.
Larry Fink
Larry Fink (born 1941, died 2023) was an American photographer of people at parties, balls, boxing gyms and fashion shows. His series Social Graces set New York society next to a working family in rural Pennsylvania.
Justin Mott
Justin Mott is a documentary, editorial and commercial photographer based in Hanoi, Vietnam. His ongoing project Kindred Guardians follows people who dedicate their lives to animals.
JM Simpson
JM Simpson is a documentary photographer who lives in Lacey, Washington. He photographs people living without housing in Tacoma, Seattle, Boston and San Francisco.
Ben Marcin
Ben Marcin is a photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. His first photobook, The Holdouts (GOST Books, 2026), gathers solo row houses, abandoned farmhouses and homeless camps in and around Baltimore.
Abdulla Shinose CK
Abdulla Shinose CK is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Malabar, India. His photography focuses on the interplay of tradition and modernity.
Stephanie Pommez
Stephanie Pommez is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. Her book The Enchanted Ones (Kehrer Verlag, 2025) is about midwives and myths along the Amazon.
Emin Özmen
Emin Özmen is a Turkish documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His self-published book Memleket (2026) gathers fifteen years of everyday life in Turkey.
Virginia McGee Richards
Virginia “Ginna” McGee Richards is a photographer and former environmental lawyer from North Carolina. Her book The Inner Passage (The MIT Press, 2026) traces canals in the South Carolina Lowcountry built by enslaved people.
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.
Nicolò Rinaldi
Nicolò Rinaldi is a documentary photographer and visual researcher from Genoa, Italy. In 2024, he won the STRATEGIA FOTOGRAFIA fellowship for his project W.E.I.R.D.
Deirdre O’Callaghan
Deirdre O'Callaghan is an Irish photographer born in County Cork. Her books include Hide That Can and The Drum Thing (Prestel, 2026).
Eri Morita
Eri Morita is a photographer born in Japan and based in California. Her book Moon Rainbow (Fugensha, 2025) follows her family over 18 years.
Luke Oppenheimer
Luke Oppenheimer is a writer and documentary photographer from Oklahoma. His book Ottuk (Aliens in Residence, 2026) follows a shepherd village in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan over five years.
Anette Nordskog
Anette Nordskog is a self-taught photographer based in Norway. Her ongoing project Lågen documents traditional raft fishing for wild salmon on one Norwegian river.
