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Landscape photography, Portrait photography, Street photography Martin Kaninsky 11/1/26 Landscape photography, Portrait photography, Street photography Martin Kaninsky 11/1/26

Lisa Cutler

Lisa Cutler is a New York based photographer best known for her series on Red Hook, Brooklyn. Her first photobook, The Hook, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2025.

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Xavo Buendia

Xavo Buendia is a photographer and creative director, born in Mexico City and based in Brighton, UK. His book Broken Edges launches on 5 December 2026.

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Thomas Boivin

Thomas Boivin is a French photographer who works mainly in black and white in the north-east of Paris. He has published three books with Stanley/Barker, including Ménilmontant and Place de la République.

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Fine art photography, Portrait photography Martin Kaninsky 11/1/26 Fine art photography, Portrait photography Martin Kaninsky 11/1/26

Hannah Altman

Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American photographer whose work considers myth, performance, memory and lineage. Her book We Will Return to You was published by Saint Lucy Books in 2025.

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Sam Haskins

Sam Haskins (1926–2009) was a South African-born British photographer. His 1960s books Five Girls and Cowboy Kate & Other Stories changed how photographers saw the nude and still influence fashion photography today.

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Documentary photography, Magnum Photographer, Portrait photography, Fine art photography Martin Kaninsky 5/10/23 Documentary photography, Magnum Photographer, Portrait photography, Fine art photography Martin Kaninsky 5/10/23

Alec Soth

Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer from Minneapolis. On long road trips he photographs the people he meets, with a big view camera that makes everyone slow down.

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Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman (1918–2006) was an American portrait photographer. He is known as the pioneer of the environmental portrait: he showed people in places that tell something about their life and work.

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Documentary photography, Portrait photography, Street Photography Martin Kaninsky 4/30/23 Documentary photography, Portrait photography, Street Photography Martin Kaninsky 4/30/23

Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson (born 1970) is a photographer and filmmaker, born in Kelowna, Canada, and raised in West Texas. He first became known for his work in conflict zones and for his pictures of Haitian migrants on a boat that sank at sea.

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Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman (1906–1979) was a portrait photographer born in Riga. He worked in Paris in the 1930s and in New York from 1940, where his pictures appeared on 101 covers of Life magazine.

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Travel photography, Leica, Street Photography, Portrait photography, Magnum Photographer Martin Kaninsky 4/10/23 Travel photography, Leica, Street Photography, Portrait photography, Magnum Photographer Martin Kaninsky 4/10/23

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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Portrait photography, Documentary photography, Street Photography, Rolleiflex Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Documentary photography, Street Photography, Rolleiflex Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) was an American photographer from New York. After ten years in fashion photography with her husband, she began her own work in 1956.

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Portrait photography, Calumet, Linhof Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Calumet, Linhof Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) was an Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer. He came to Canada as a young refugee and opened a studio in Ottawa in 1932.

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Portrait photography, Deardorff, Sinar Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Deardorff, Sinar Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Irving Penn

Irving Penn (1917–2009) was an American photographer. For more than sixty years he made fashion pictures, portraits and still lifes for Vogue, in a calm and simple style.

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Portrait photography, Mamiya, Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Mamiya, Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz (born 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She began at Rolling Stone in 1970 and has worked for Vanity Fair since 1983 and for Vogue since 1998.

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Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was an American photographer from New York. At Harper’s Bazaar and later Vogue, he let fashion models move, jump and laugh.

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